The petition hopes to improve visibility for those working behind the scenes. 

A bassist has launched a petition calling for album metadata on Apple Music and other streaming services to carry the details of everyone involved in the making of a track and not just the primary artist, Billboard reports.

“We want to know who’s playing the music we’re hearing, who produced it, who arranged it, where it was recorded and by whom,” reads the MoveOn petition, titled ‘Show the Album Credits on Apple Music!’

The petition was only launched by bassist Jon Burr on July 5, but has already gathered over 20,000 signatures.

“We chose to target Apple at this time because the rollout of Apple Music is missing this category of information,” Burr told Billboard. “Apple has shown a willingness to listen to feedback in the past, and is sensitive to their user base (which contains many of these same creatives). As the leader in technology and music marketing, if they set a trend, others may follow.

“We understand that doing this will create a burden on these services — many just don’t have access to the information due to the way digital music is delivered to them,” Burr continued. “If we can encourage a cultural shift going forward and develop enhanced supply chains, we’ll be making the kind of progress needed by musicians, composers, lyricists, engineers, photographers, designers, and other contributing creatives.”

As Billboard notes, the lack of metadata standardisation can also adversely affect royalty payouts.

As well as Apple Music, neither Spotify or Pandora feature full credits when songs are played. Currently songs that have been entered into YouTube’s Music Key service list label, publisher, composer(s) and performers.

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