For tens of millions of Americans, it's a no-brainer.

Nearly every song ever recorded for just about $12 a month, or free, if you don't mind the ads.

But while the streaming giant Spotify has conquered the music industry,

many of those responsible for the music on the platform,

the artists themselves say they're getting a raw deal.

It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

Chapel Roe!

At this year's Grammys, a plea from one of Pop's biggest stars, Chapel Rhone, in her speech

accepting the award for Best New Artist.

I told myself, if I ever won a Grammy and I got to stand up here,

I would demand that labels in the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists

would offer a livable wage in health care, especially to developing artists.

But you don't often hear it on music's biggest stage.

It's a common refrain.

Despite record profits and nearly a decade of sustained financial growth across the industry at large,

many musicians say they're being left behind and that the rise of streaming is to blame.

It has become enormously more difficult to make a living as a professional musician

since streaming entered the marketplace.

Damon Krukowski has been a professional musician since the late 1980s.

He's one of the founders of the influential indie rock band, Galaxy 500.

For an independent artist like myself, I never really needed or participated in the mass market.

But I still had a career, a career that supported me and the labels I worked with. He's also a member of the UMAW, United Musicians and Allied Workers,

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