The Danish music business stands to lose one of the biggest platforms in the world.
Google has on Thursday night announced that they are removing Danish music from their streaming service ‘within a short time’. It happens according to Koda for putting pressure on in an ongoing debate about a common nordic agreement on the use of music on YouTube.
the Announcement came Thursday that the music would be removed from service 1. august. But already on Friday morning 31. July is YouTube starting to go in the black. The Danish musician Faustix’ (with the civil name Morten Olsen) music videos is no longer ‘available’ in Denmark.
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– It must be a matter for politicians and not for the musicians themselves, says the Danish hitmager, which is behind the hits and the remixes as ‘Lose Myself’, ‘Complicated’ and ‘Crying in the Sun’, to Ekstra Bladet.
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the Music industry is already in the knees, think Faustix. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
– If not the politicians step in, then we come Danish artists to demonstrate in front of the Palace with torches and shouting: ‘Hear us now!’, joker he.
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I got to know last night, but I take it quietly right now. It is hopefully a matter of time before it becomes available again, tells Morten Olsen.
at the time Of writing has Faustix entire 6.5 million playing on YouTube, and the number seems to increase just preliminary, if not an agreement comes in the house.
the Agreement was, according to Koda replace the Norwegian, Finnish and Danish composer and sangskriverselskabers local agreements and gather them together in one agreement with Google, says in a press release.
Faustix, as his stage name is, releasing a new single in a few weeks, which usually also will be published on YouTube with the music video.
– If it still behaves in the same way at the time when my new single comes out, then there is no need to spend money to make a music video. So I save, of course, the production, but one loses the very exposure, tells the Faustix.
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Although YouTube is not the Morten Olsen’s main source of income, so it falls together with a major crisis, as most of the musicians in the Denmark is in.
– I don’t know how much I personally even earn through YouTube, but it is a platform, which is being removed. And in this time it is already not easy to be a Danish musician. All concerts have been cancelled or moved (due to coronakrisen, ed.), sounds from Morten Olsen.
– So in this way it is pisseærgerligt. It is quite ridiculous. It’s really just more wood for the fire, he tells, with reference to the Danish music business in advance is in the knees because of all the cancelled festivals and concerts, which are usually there, the Danish artists to earn money, which has been cancelled due to the corona.
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Although it is a platform, which is being pulled from under the feet of the Danish artists, so it is not entirely bad, he thinks:
– It gets the really just people to slip over on Spotify and listen to our music, and we serve more pr. playback.
– It is not so much beyond me as some others. But it’s just more wood for the fire musikbranchens situation taken into consideration.
