Tag: royalties

There is good news and bad news in this morning’s financials announcement from British collecting society PRS for Music. 2020 saw record payouts from the PRO of £699.4m ($973.5m) to songwriters, composers and music publishers....

Our main feature this quarter is an analysis of the UK’s music streaming economics inquiry, including its key talking points so far, and what might happen next. The report went to press before this morning’s story...

The US Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) is up and running, collecting and matching publishing royalties from streaming services. The organisation has revealed details of its January collections and distributions, with...

Pure-Horse sound amazing. “A four piece alternative band who are influenced by Radiohead, ABBA, The Ronettes, Slipknot, BTS and Little Mix,” apparently. “Imagine the songwriting sensibilities of The Beatles...

‘Today’s pop industry cheats songwriters‘ is quite the headline for a Guardian guest column by one of the biggest songwriters of all. Björn Ulvaeus was writing as he co-launched a report with Midia Research...

If you missed Friday’s breaking news: a company that pays out 52% of its music streaming revenue to labels is attacking a company that pays out 50-53% of its revenue to labels for being less artist-friendly! Or rather:...

UK collecting society PPL has announced its Q1 2021 distribution to artists and recorded music rightsholders, and it’s a good (if bleak) marker for the impact that Covid-19 has had on performance rights collections....

India’s collecting society IPRS now has a full set of major music companies from the country, after T-Series joined the likes of Saregama and Times Music (plus the local subsidiaries of Sony and UMG) as a member. “With...

Impala, which represents independent music companies in Europe, is the latest organisation to step in to the debate about the music streaming economy and how to reform it. “Our aim is to make streaming fairer and provide...

Distributor Ditto Music is moving into NFTs, but its plans will enable fans to acquire shares in songs, rather than just digital artwork. The company has launched an ‘NFT exchange’ as part of its Bluebox royalties platform,...

The publishing side of our industry has been holding its breath waiting for data on the delayed impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly on the revenues collected and distributed by collecting societies. Judging by US...

When SoundCloud announced plans to launch user-centric (or in its terms, ‘fan-powered’) payouts recently, it didn’t say how the system would affect its share of revenues. Now the company has revealed that...