YUNGBLUD, Ashley Monroe & More Join 2,100+ Creators for Recording Academy’s 2025 Music Advocacy Day

On Thursday (Sept. 25), much than 2,100 euphony creators, including YUNGBLUD, Ashley Monroe and Kenyon Dixon, participated successful the Recording Academy’s 11th yearly Music Advocacy Day. In much than 200 meetings with national lawmakers crossed 45 states and Washington, D.C., Recording Academy members met with elected officials to sermon cardinal issues affecting the euphony manufacture and the value of passing pro-music authorities successful Congress.

Creators met with lawmakers, including Reps. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Marianette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD). Conversations focused connected protecting creators from having their works exploited by artificial quality without compensation, passing authorities specified arsenic the Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act to supply tenable AI safeguards, and preserving national backing for the arts.

“Music Advocacy Day represents the halfway of the Academy’s dedication to serving the euphony assemblage year-round,” Todd Dupler, the Recording Academy’s main advocacy & nationalist argumentation officer, said successful a statement. “Protecting creators and their creation is important to ensuring a thriving euphony ecosystem, and the Academy is arrogant to gives thousands of our members the accidental to converse with lawmakers crossed the federation whose enactment of pro-music authorities volition positively interaction the aboriginal of our industry.”

As previously reported, R&B prima Leon Thomas served arsenic this year’s Music Advocacy Day creator ambassador.

Year-round, the Recording Academy’s Washington, D.C.-based Advocacy squad mobilizes Academy members and euphony professionals from crossed the state to lobby for euphony creators’ rights astatine the local, authorities and national levels.