“Dear Spotify, show us where your money comes from…” The latest ambient banger on the streaming service is, well, it’s about the streaming service. ‘Dear Spotify’ is one of five […]
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Ascap thanks Spotify for accelerated payments during Covid-19
Spotify has taken plenty of flak from songwriters over its history, and with its appeal against new royalty rates in the US still not settled, there’ll be more to come […]
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UK’s Labour Party throws weight behind user-centric payouts
The debate about streaming royalties and ‘user-centric’ payments – primer here if needed – has largely been confined to the music industry so far. Could politicians get involved? Jo Stevens of the […]
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#BrokenRecord’s next step: ‘We need a streaming summit’
Last Friday, the latest episode of our Music Ally TV Show focused on the #BrokenRecord campaign that’s been gathering steam in the UK, calling for systemic changes to the music […]
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TuneCore Q2 payments up 6% to $35m
TuneCore has revealed that it has paid out $35m to artists on its distribution platform in Q2 this year. This marks a 6% rise in payments from the same period […]
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The Turtles to challenge RIAA settlement with Sirius XM
The RIAA recently negotiated a $210m settlement with satellite-radio provider Sirius XM over royalties for songs produced before 1972, but that’s not an end to the dispute. Flo & Eddie […]
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Spotify aims its guns at Apple’s 30% App Store tax
The fact that Apple takes a 30% cut of all in-app purchases made within iOS apps has been a sore point with streaming music services for some time. That’s even […]
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PRS for Music launches pro-creator Streamfair campaign
Collecting society PRS for Music is stepping up its activism in the streaming music space, while reminding the industry that its royalties from streaming in the last year overtook downloads […]
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What is Pandora paying publishers?
Billboard attempts to answer that very question in this lengthy piece. Undoubtedly something for the lawyers and accountants to get in a fizz about, but equally interesting to everyone else […]
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Spotify’s total payments to right holders June 2015
This infographic is an extract from the Music Ally Report
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Facebook adds peer-to-peer payments in Messenger app
One of the more interesting offshoots from messaging apps is peer-to-peer payments, and Facebook just dived in to the market. “Today we’re adding a new feature in Messenger that gives […]
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Bandcamp hits $100m direct-to-fan sales milestone
Direct-to-fan platform Bandcamp has announced its latest milestone: $100m paid by fans to artists for music and merchandise through its site. “Fans give artists $3.5 million every month on the […]