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NFT trends include 50/50 split for musicians and visual artists

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge March 24, 2021May 11, 2023

Music NFTs must be big business. Look, the Wall Street Journal is writing about them! And it’s a good summary of the current activity (and hype) around non-fungible tokens in the […]

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YouTube reveals $30bn payouts figure for last three years

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge January 27, 2021May 11, 2023

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has published her latest letter to YouTube’s community of creators, and as usual there are some new figures alongside the recap and future plans. The big […]

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UK’s Labour Party throws weight behind user-centric payouts

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge June 24, 2020May 11, 2023

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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PRS for Music payouts grew in 2019, but decline expected in 2020

Avatar photo by Eamonn Forde May 14, 2020May 11, 2023

UK collecting society PRS for Music paid out £686m ($837.2m) in music royalties in 2019, an increase of 13.7% from 2018’s figure. That was based on record royalty collections of […]

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Zoë Keating reveals her latest per-stream payouts data

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge January 13, 2020May 11, 2023

Zoë Keating has become the go-to artist for raw data on streaming payouts to musicians: because she’s fully independent with a distribution deal that gives her 100% of her recorded-music […]

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Zoë Keating reveals her Spotify payouts for 2018

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge December 18, 2018May 11, 2023

Canadian cellist and composer Zoe Keating has made a habit of publishing details of her income from digital-music services: for example in 2012, 2013 and 2015. Now she has shared some more data on […]

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YouTube’s per-stream music payouts have halved – report

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge July 13, 2016May 11, 2023

Here’s some more ammunition for the ‘value gap’ debate: a report from Midia Research claiming that the effective per-stream payouts from YouTube to music rightsholders halved in 2015.

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Google Play may now be doing double the App Store’s downloads

by Music Ally Blog June 16, 2015May 11, 2023

Mobile industry analyst Benedict Evans has been looking at the latest stats published by Google and Apple about their respective app stores: Google’s latest stat of $7bn of developer payouts […]

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Zoe Keating publishes her Spotify payouts again

by Music Ally Blog May 22, 2015May 11, 2023

“It’s been a while & a journalist asked, so I put my latest Spotify royalty payments online: Jan 2013 to May 2015,” tweeted musician Zoe Keating last night, with a […]

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Pandora set for court battle with BMI over payouts

by Music Ally Blog February 9, 2015May 11, 2023

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 […]

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Time’s Spotify calculator misses one big point

by Music Ally Blog November 21, 2014May 11, 2023

“See How Much Every Top Artist Makes on Spotify” reads the headline to Time’s latest article about the streaming service. Well, no. “One central mystery in the drama: just how […]

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Patreon now paying out $1m a month to creators

by Music Ally Blog November 21, 2014May 11, 2023

Continuous crowdfunding service Patreon just hit a new milestone: $1m of payouts every month to the musicians, YouTubers and other creators raising money from their fans using its site. “It […]

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