Do you feel what you said was misconstrued? In an interview last year, you basically said that artists need to engage regularly with their fans, and that the traditional cycle of releasing an album every two or three years may not be ideal for all artists these days, which many people seemed to see as a criticism. There’s a number of different things that have happened throughout the year and we will continue to do as much as we can. There’s also a live show feature on the service that we’ve updated, so artists can announce.
I’m also happy about the “Artist Pick” that allows artists to pick causes that they care about. It just feels like the right thing to do, to help out the community to the best of our ability. Normally, we support a number of music education programs, in particular for diverse talent, whether it’s female producers or ethnic groups. That was not the only effort we supposed in 2020, we also put aside $10 million into a COVID relief fund for artists, so this is one out of many initiatives that we’re doing. It’s great that you donated $500,000 and gave so much attention to Save Our Stages, can you talk about the inspiration for supporting independent venues? But I can’t say at this point when it’s going to be - that’s the billion-dollar question that every financial analyst in the world is asking right now. I’m focused on the safety of our employees, and when the authorities deem it safe and we feel we can offer a safe workplace, we will allow employees to come back. As for the sense of when we can open up again, I don’t know. Obviously that’s been incredibly challenging for us all, but the team has showed incredible spirit in making it work. Pretty much all of our offices, with the exception of maybe two, are still closed, so the vast majority of entire company is working from home.
How is the company holding up after a year of pandemic lockdown? Are all of your offices closed, and do you have a sense of when they might reopen? While Ek and Vogel they demurred from a question about how the company was responding to Morgan Wallen’s racist slur revealed on Tuesday night, they did answer other questions as expansively as the short interview time allowed.
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