What Is Stradebase and Why Are Skepta, JME & Tiwa Savage and now Chy Cartier Joining The Platform

There are moments when the future of music feels like more than a talking point it feels like a threshold. Stradebase is starting to shape a new era for musicians and music lovers.

The platform turning passive listeners into active participants by letting fans buy royalties to individual tracks. Not NFTs, not gimmicks literal ownership stakes. JME’s pilot run showed just how ready the audience is: one hundred £1 shares of his track disappeared in twenty seconds flat. In a space where attention spans are measured in scrolls, that’s an astonishing kind of focus: the sound of fans voting with their wallets. 

Skepta, whose own career has been defined by a refusal to compromise independence, frames Stradebase as an evolution rather than a disruption: “I have seen the development of technology, consumption and its evolving landscape in this industry and as a creative, I know that my fans want to be mission connected to me and my music, shows in any way they can. I have spent my career carving out ways to remain close to the core of what I do musically and it’s all because of the fans and communities we have built. This is just an evolution of what I have been doing by embracing tech but on my terms.” 

That “on my terms” carries heavy. For years, the business of music has been driven by platforms that shape listening habits from a distance. Stradebase flips the direction of travel, shrinking the space between artist and audience until there is no space at all. JME’s reflection on the platform doubles down on this point: “It reduces the noise in the industry and goes back to the heart and core of what we do this for…the fans. To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Integrity I offered 100 shares of the track at £1 per share which were snapped up by fans in seconds. It’s about giving power back to the people who make the music and the fans who support it. This is the future.”

There is something striking about the intimacy of the exchange. No ticket queue, no meet-and-greet, no backstage pass, just a transaction that embeds the fan in the story of the music itself. The next time one of her songs hits a million streams, those fans aren’t just watching from the sidelines; they’re counting their share. It changes the feel of the relationship.

For Chy, this is a deliberate step into a model that rebalances power between artist and audience. The same people who have been shouting her lyrics from the crowd, posting her verses to their stories, now have a way to be written into the paperwork to share in the upside of the music they’ve been championing. 

Picture it: a listener somewhere in London, phone in hand, thumb hovering over the buy button as the counter ticks down. Twenty seconds later, the shares are gone. In that moment, ownership has shifted not to a corporation, not to a label, but to a crowd of individuals. A hundred little pieces of belief, locked in.

It’s not the first time London has been the backdrop to a redistribution of power in music. Pirate radio, jungle raves, grime sets recorded on camcorders and passed around like contraband all of them were acts of resistance as much as expression, creating a direct line between artist and listener. Chy’s presence on Stradebase feels like a continuation of that lineage. She is not just another name on the roster but a young voice in dialogue with the city’s past, adding her verse to a decades-long call-and-response between culture and control.

Chy is coming off a sequence of wins a Burberry campaign that positioned her as a face of London style, a Stone Island collaboration that placed her squarely at the intersection of fashion and street culture and her music continues to usher into the next phase in a city that has always rewarded audacity. To join a platform already endorsed by Skepta, Tiwa Savage, Wretch 32, and D Double E is to signal that she’s not just rising with the scene, she’s actively shaping where it goes next. 

London has always been a city where cultural revolutions start quietly, in basements, bedrooms, and backrooms, before they hit the wider world. Stradebase cound be the next frontier of artist and fan connectivity and invesment.