Yesterday, we reported on the claim by ‘All About That Bass’ co-writer Kevin Kadish that the song’s 178m streams had earned him $5,679 – and we wondered what digital service those streams were on. Overnight, a spokesperson from ASCAP, of which Kadish is a member, got in touch with the details.
The figures were specifically for performance royalties from Pandora, so did not include the track’s 290m streams on Spotify or the 1bn+ streams of its official video on YouTube.
Pandora won’t have to increase the rates that it pays royalty collection body ASCAP just yet, after the latter lost its latest appeal in the court battle between the two. […]
With songwriter royalties such a talking point at the Grammys, what better time for a high-profile court battle over Pandora’s payments to licensing agency BMI? Pandora might not agree, of […]
Publisher Sony/ATV has already signalled its willingness to withdraw from collecting societies BMI and ASCAP in order to negotiate deals directly with digital music services like Pandora. An attempt to […]
Pandora has signed a direct multi-year licensing deal with BMG. The deal covers BMG’s catalogue of works that are paid through ASCAP and BMI and the deal terms, for now, […]
Pandora might be happy it has the indies onside through the direct deal it signed with Merlin this week, but the publishing sector is less overjoyed with it as a service – or, […]
Music publisher Sony/ATV is still hopeful that it will be allowed to partially withdraw its rights from US collecting societies ASCAP and BMI in order to strike direct deals with […]
The ambitious Global Repertoire Database (GRD) project to aggregate information about songs from collecting societies and publishers collapsed last week, despite participants having invested £8m in getting it up and […]
Get set for 60 days of intense and angry lobbying in the US over personal radio royalties, after the Justice Department announced plans to review the licensing system for ASCAP […]
US rate court ruling sets Pandora’s ASCAP payments at 1.85% of revenues
As the new year begins, the music could stop playing for personal radio service Pandora. Well, some of it
Good news for Pandora yesterday: it won a court order to ensure it still gets the full repertoire of collecting society ASCAP.
