Martina McBride Calls Out Spotify

Martina McBride has been on a mission to get fair treatment for female country artists. Her latest beef is with Spotify.

She tried to make a “Country Music” Spotify playlist and what came up was beyond disappointing.

“I looked at the list, and it was all male artists, and I thought, hmm. And then I refreshed and refreshed and refreshed.

My heart started pounding, and I started thinking ‘this can’t be right, this can’t be right.'”

It wasn’t until the 136th recommendation that she finally got to Carrie Underwood’s “Church Bells”.

She took photos of the 10-song lists and posted them on Instagram for her 355,000 followers to see. That got the attention of a woman from Spotify. She met Martina for coffee, and told her that their engineers were “trying to fix it.” But that was it.

Martina would like them to go public with details or at least make an announcement that they’re working on it.

“I find it shocking that they feel so indestructible that they don’t even take the time to make a comment about this.”

Categorised in: Country Music News

This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone