Apple Music, Spotify, TikTok, and SiriusXM are all taking various actions on Blackout Tuesday, the music industry’s grassroots day of protest
that it would black out the artwork on many of its most popular podcasts including Today’s Top Hits and RapCaviar, and that several of its podcasts and playlists would also include 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence to acknowledge the duration of George Floyd’s suffocation.
also said it will be matching donations from its employees toward organizations focused on fighting racism.Apple Music gave no specifics about its initiatives for the day. But Apple Music users who open the app Tuesday are finding that the streamer has blocked its For You, Browse and Radio functions with a prompt acknowledging “steadfast support of the Black voices that define music, creativity and culture.” The three functions have been replaced with a Beats 1 stream playing music from black artists.
Apple Music also published a playlist called For Us, By Us, a reference to the song “F.U.B.U.” by Solange, featuring tracks from black artists including Solange, Kendrick Lamar and N.W.A. among many others. Amazon Music and YouTube Music both announced on social media they’d participate in Blackout Tuesday as well.
SiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer sent an internal memo to employees Monday saying that all of its channels would be muted for three minutes at 3 p.m. EST Tuesday. “One minute to reflect on the terrible history of racism, one minute in observance of this tragic moment in time and one minute to hope for and demand a better future,” Meyer said.
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