Tag: digital royalties

Merck Mercuriadis isn't just snapping up catalogues left, right and centre for his Hipgnosis Songs Fund; he's also wading in to the debate about musicians' streaming royalties. Well, more accurately: he's responded to...

For several months, the #BrokenRecord campaign in the UK has been calling for the government to step in to the debate about musicians’ streaming royalties. Today, there’s been a significant announcement on that front. No,...

Until February this year, Tristan Jehan was Spotify's director of research. As part of an interview promoting his latest job as VP of technology at TechnoArt in Israel, he's offered some spicy views on the artist streaming...

The US-based Digital Media Association (DiMA) is the lobbying body for music streaming services from companies including Amazon, Apple, Pandora, Spotify and YouTube. Its new 'Streaming Forward' report – produced with...

A new site called Good Splits is promising to help musicians "quickly and easily calculate royalties from aggregator services". The idea being that they can not just see how much they're earning, but also split the revenues...

Pitchfork's article about 'how musicians are fighting for streaming pay during the pandemic' isn't new: it was originally published in June. However, after the site re-shared it on Twitter yesterday with some stats on classical...

When Amazon, Google, Pandora and Spotify appealed against new, higher songwriter royalty rates set by the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), it sparked fury in the publishing community. Get set for another outbreak: the US...

CISAC is the global body representing collecting societies. Its last president was Jean-Michel Jarre, and before him it was Robin Gibb from the Bee Gees. Big shoes to fill for its next president, right? Step forward......

The #BrokenRecord campaign started by musician Tom Gray in the UK is gathering steam. Next Sunday (24 May) will see an online Tim's Twitter Listening Party Festival allied to the campaign, which is calling for changes to...

This is an edited version of an article that appeared in Music Ally's Q1 2020 report. In the light of the current #BrokenRecord campaign around music industry economics – see our piece last week for more on that – we...

The UK's Musicians' Union and The Ivors Academy have teamed up for a campaign called 'Keep Music Alive' which the two organisations say "aims to ‘fix streaming’ and calls for industry stakeholders to come together to...

Earlier this week, we covered the IFPI's latest figures for global recorded music revenues, which grew by 8.2% in 2019. Artist rights group the Future of Music Coalition made an important point when it shared our story on...