Chappell Roan's $25,000 donation to struggling artists following her 2025 Grammy Awards speech sparks pledges to match from Charli XCX and Noah Kahan.

Chappell Roan’s conversation-stirring Grammy night speech has incited action from the music industry to provide artists with livable wages and healthcare. Charli XCX and Noah Kahan joined the conversation online,

Chappell Roan won the Grammy for Best New Artist, and she used her acceptance speech to call for change in the music business, highlighting the things that record labels don’t provide to the artists that they’re developing: “Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection.

Chappell Roan’s Grammy acceptance speech keeps making headlines as the reactions continue to roll in. Artists like Charli XCX, Noah Kahan, and Halsey match her $25k donation to charity Backline’s campaign.

Chappell Roan first promised to donate in response to an op-ed author critical of her Grammys speech calling for 'healthcare, especially to developing artists.'

Chappell Roan 's not the only one putting her money where her mouth is. On Feb. 2 at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, Chappell won Best New Artist and used her speech to address the critical issue of healthcare and liveable wages for developing artists.