Chappell Roan took home the highly anticipated best new artist award at the 2025 Grammys, and she used her win to highlight the treatment of developing artists in the music industry.

Victoria Monet, the 2024 winner of the category, returned to the Grammy stage to announce Roan as this year’s winner. The “Hot to Go!” singer-songwriter thanked her fellow nominees, “whose music got me through this past year.” Roan brought a notebook to the stage to deliver remarks she said she had always told herself she would say if she were ever to find herself in this position.

“I told myself if I ever won a Grammy, and I got to stand up here in front of the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels and the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists would offer a livable wage and health care, especially to developing artists,” Roan said,...