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# 13K+ Sign Petition To Oust Recording Academy Head
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/13k-sign-petition-to-oust-recording-academy-head/
- Published: 2018-02-02T11:37:47.000Z
- Updated: 2018-02-02T11:37:47.000Z
- Description: A petition demanding the resignation of long time Recording Academy president Neil Portnow has now surpassed its original goal of 10,000 signatures. By mid-day on Friday, 13,467 had signed demanding. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2018/02/13k-sign-petition-to-oust-recording-acad
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Conventions & Awards, Major Labels, Music Business, Amazon, Apple, Apple Music, Google, Grammys, music, music industry, Music Tech, musician, musicians, Pandora, Spotify, Tech Stories, YouTube, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:05

[![image from www.hypebot.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb09efb4da970d-200wi "image from www.hypebot.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb09efb4da970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)A petition demanding the resignation of long time Recording Academy president Neil Portnow has now surpassed its original goal of 10,000 signatures. By mid-day on Friday, 13,467 had signed demanding the exec exit after his tone deaf comments that women should "step up" if they want to end systemic gender discrimination in music. 

**READ & SIGN THE PETITION [HERE](https://www.thepetitionsite.com/602/307/220/academy-president-must-step-down-for-telling-female-musicians-to-step-up-after-grammys/?ref=hypebot.com).** 

> Attention everyone, especially musicians: Step up. And sign the petition to have Neil Portnow, president of the Recording Academy/Grammy's, to step down. We are close to our goal of 10000 votes. Pass along. [https://t.co/GGOY95eUhy](https://t.co/GGOY95eUhy?ref=hypebot.com)  
>  
> — Vanessa Carlton (@VanessaCarlton) [January 31, 2018](https://twitter.com/VanessaCarlton/status/958749919933759489?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hypebot.com)

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