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Ginger Trill Confronts Woolworths For An Alleged Decision They Have Taken To Never Play SA Music

Ginger Trill Confronts Woolworths For An Alleged Decision They Have Taken To Never Play SA Music. Getting airplays is one other major prospect that has played in boosting music careera of different artists. When they don’t get their music played on broadcasting channels it affects them.

Recently Ginger Trill took to social media to confront Woolworths on claims that they will no longer be playing SA music. He was moved to a point where he

“As an artist , I can tell you now a lot of us need our royalty cheques to keep going in this business , it’s such a significant part of our income , it keeps the lights on in some instances and this whole thing with Woolies is gonna be devestating,” he tweeted.

He added on : “I need ya’ll to understand what this means for real … once Woolies stops playing our music and opts for copyright free music ( and i repeat they’re not breaking any law ) there’ll be a significant cut down on the royalty money distributed to artists by SAMPRA.”

Toya Delayze chimed into the topic by clarifying how this will affect independent artists mostly.

“This will hit independent artists the hardest & force artists to seek to be signed which in SA is slavery all over again having been there. I hope they rethink -they don’t need to be cutting costs with all they money they make from us,” she wrote.

The reason to this explained briefly is that Woolies is opting for Copyright free music.

“I mean specifically US South Africans , but what they’re considering is what is called ‘ copyright free ‘ music , which includes international and local music , but I was speaking to how it affects us ( local ) artists directly,” reiterated further.

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