Tag: royalties

Alright then. We definitely want to maintain a ‘business as usual’ aspect to Music Ally’s news coverage, but as you’ll tell from our lineup today, coronavirus is overshadowing a lot that’s happening...

“When I began to write this article, I thought it would be a quick one,” writes Jeff Price, the founder of royalty-collecting firm Audiam, in the introduction to ‘The Definitive Guide to Spotify Royalties‘....

Every year, artist-rights blog The Trichordist publishes an updated ‘streaming price bible’ comparing the per-stream payouts of the major music streaming services. The latest version, for 2019, was published overnight,...

One of the quirks of the way the music industry makes its market data available is that we tend to talk about the ‘value of the industry’ purely in terms of recordings: thanks to the IFPI’s annual Global Music Report....

The latest collecting society announcing growth in its annual collections is Canadian PRO Socan. It estimates that it collected C$405.5m (around US$305.1m) in 2019 – the first time its collections have exceeded $400m in...

Soft-rock band Air Supply had some big hits in the early 1980s, and while the group continued as a going concern well into the 2010s, we’re a little surprised to be writing about them in 2020. But perhaps we shouldn’t...

UMPG is the latest publisher launching a slick royalties app for its songwriters to keep tabs on their earnings. UMPG Window is an iOS and Android app, and also a website, which will show writers their earnings by work title,...

Music-creation platform Splice launched its Splice Sounds sample library in 2015, and by October 2018 it had paid out $10m in royalties to the musicians who’d created its samples. Now the company has announced another...

British music/tech startup Audoo has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign, in which it will attempt to raise $250k of funding at a valuation of £6m. CEO Ryan Edwards launched the campaign last night at the latest...

As podcasts have become more strategically important both to music streaming services and to the music industry, so Hot Pod News has become one of our trusted sources for information on the podcasting world. Its latest piece,...

In November 2019, we reported on the latest lawsuit filed against Spotify by music rightsholders: Sosa Entertainment and its sister firm Pro Music Rights. Sosa was claiming that it had not been paid the full royalties for...

US performing rights body SoundExchange saw its payouts to artists and labels fall by 4.7% in 2019, although that’s because  of the impact of a $150m settlement with SiriusXM the year before, which wasn’t repeated in...