Tag: songwriters

We knew that the modern music industry often involves more co-writers on songs, but here's one we didn't see coming: the Earth itself.

BELEM is the European Union-funded consortium announced last December with €2m of funding to explore lyric translation.

In the US, the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) was set up to collect mechanical royalties from streaming services, then pay them out to publishers and songwriters.

Startup Blokur has released its second 'Songwriters' Review' report, based on its analysis of Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube.

Collecting societies body CISAC has published its annual Global Collections Report this morning, revealing the latest figures and trends from its member bodies.

Accurate metadata is going to be the lifeblood for songwriters in the future (or, to put it less positively, inaccurate or missing metadata has been a big problem for them in the streaming era thus far).

You wait ages for two portals that want to help music royalties flow to the right people, then two come along at once.

GESAC is joining the fray with its ‘Study on the place and role of authors and composers in the European music streaming market’ study.

British songwriters body The Ivors Academy is getting into the accelerator game, but not for startups.

Spotify has its Noteable website with resources for songwriters, and now YouTube is following suit with a new 'YouTube for Songwriters & Producers' hub.

Music organisations around the world are thinking about how to help the next generation of executives be as diverse and talented as possible.

Much of the debate around songwriters’ earnings from music streaming revolves around whether they should be paid a lot more.