US royalty collections body SoundExchange has been continuing its efforts to get artists to sign up to receive payments, including publishing lists of artists who aren’t on its books. Digital Music News has been digging through that list, and turned up a list of surprisingly big names who are getting diddly-squat from SoundExchange. Such as? Skrillex, NWA,Swedish House Mafia, Florence and the Machine, Rammstein, Gene Simmons – not a man whose eyes are usually closed to additional revenue streams – Fleet Foxes, Fleetwood Mac, Grandmaster Flash, and the estates of Edith Piaf, Fred Astaire and Luciano Pavarotti.

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