RAYE to Receive Ivors Academy Honour Following Songwriter Royalties Campaign

UPDATE (Sep. 8): Further recipients person been announced for the Ivors Academy Honours lawsuit (Oct. 2) including manufacture legends and authorities figures.

Joining RAYE and Kae Tempest arsenic honorees astatine the ceremonial successful London are Sir Richard Branson, laminitis of the Virgin Group; Kanya King CBE, main enforcement and laminitis of the MOBO Group; Sir Chris Bryant MP, Minister of State astatine the Department for Business and Trade; Jon Platt, president and CEO of Sony Music Publishing; Catherine Manners, laminitis of Manners McDade; and the precocious John Sweeney, vice president, planetary astatine SESAC.

The lawsuit takes spot astatine London’s InterContinental connected Park Lane with recipients each being recognised for their enactment championing songwriters and composers during their clip successful the industry.

PREVIOUSLY (July 24): RAYE has carved retired yet different milestone successful her ascendant vocation by becoming a recipient of an Ivors Academy Honour.

The Ivors Academy has announced that the multi BRIT award-winning instrumentalist volition person the accolade astatine the maiden Ivors Academy Honours lawsuit successful London this autumn (Oct. 2). The ceremonial is acceptable to observe the artists and manufacture figures driving affirmative alteration for songwriters and composers, and volition instrumentality spot astatine the InterContinental London Park Lane.

The quality follows the announcement that the U.K. authorities has confirmed the instauration of a £75 per diem for songwriters and league musicians. The statement has been backed by the U.K. arms of large labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group.

At The Ivors successful 2023, RAYE called connected labels to allocate songwriters a stock of maestro signaling revenues. In her acceptance code for the champion modern opus award – which she won for smash deed “Escapism” – she highlighted the request for a greater level of respect to beryllium shown towards “voiceless beating bosom of the industry, which is songwriters.”

In a statement, Roberto Neri, main enforcement of The Ivors Academy said, “An unthinkable multi award-winning artist, RAYE is the 1 of the astir talented songwriters of her procreation and ever gives afloat respect and dependable to chap writers. She has consistently called for amended wage and greater designation for songwriters, championing structural alteration to support the endowment down the euphony we love. We’re arrogant to honour her with this well-deserved recognition.”

Over the past fewer years, southbound Londoner RAYE (born Rachel Keen) has been astatine the forefront of this conversation, repeatedly pushing for a much inclusive and equitable euphony manufacture portion besides speaking retired astir the imbalance of powerfulness betwixt artists and labels and the fiscal challenges faced by caller artists.

She divided with her erstwhile statement Polydor successful July 2021, to which she signed successful 2014, after taking to societal media to explicate that they wo...