COVID-19, lockdown, Lizzo

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including how the COVID-19 outbreak is affecting the music business and the financial support available to musicians and others who work in the industry, and the latest filing in the dispute over who owns a stake in Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts'. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital. STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK • Self-employed who make up 72% of the music industry being let down by government as COVID-19 crisis grows, say trade bodies (https://completemusicupdate.com/article/self-employed-who-make-up-72-of-the-music-industry-being-let-down-by-government-as-covid-19-crisis-grows-say-trade-bodies/) • Ivors Academy proposes using unallocated streaming royalties to support music-makers hit by COVID-19 crisis (https://completemusicupdate.com/article/ivors-academy-proposes-using-unallocated-streaming-royalties-to-support-music-makers-hits-by-covid-19-crisis/) • Spotify, PRS and Help Musicians launch financial support initiatives for music-makers struggling amid COVID-19 outbreak (https://completemusicupdate.com/article/spotify-prs-and-help-musicians-launch-financial-support-initiatives-for-musicians-struggling-amid-covid-19-outbreak/) • Music industry welcomes UK government’s COVID-19 support for self-employed (https://completemusicupdate.com/article/music-industry-welcomes-uk-governments-covid-19-support-for-self-employed/) ALSO MENTIONED • Coronamusicians.info (http://www.coronamusicians.info/) • Musicians' Union Hardship Fund (https://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/hardshipfund) • Spotify COVID-19 Music Relief (https://covid19musicrelief.byspotify.com) • PRS Emergency Relief Fund (http://www.prsformusic.com/ERF) • Help Musicians Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund (https://www.cognitoforms.com/HelpMusicians1/HelpMusiciansCoronavirusFinancialHardshipFund) • MMF Song Royalties Guide (https://cmulibrary.com/digitaldollar-songroyaltiesguide/) • Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin (https://completemusicupdate.com/signup/) • Buy the Dissecting The Digital Dollar book (http://amzn.to/2Due7th)