Superstar songwriter Justin Tranter’s record label has promised to give its songwriters a share of its recordings royalties.
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UK government to create working group on musicians’ streaming pay
The UK government has announced plans to create a working group to explore how musicians are paid in the music streaming economy.
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New study explores music streaming’s ‘glocalisation’ effect
In 2012, only one of the top 10 songs in Poland was sung in Polish. Ten years later in 2022, that figure had risen to eight.
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Björn Ulvaeus warns music industry: ‘We will lose the next Paul McCartney’
ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus did not pull any punches in his introduction to the latest annual report by collecting societies body CISAC.
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Sony Music boss warns of music streaming’s ‘meaningless volume’
It’s clearly the season for senior major-label executives to outline what they feel is wrong with the current music-streaming economy.
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WMG hopes for recurring music-subscription price increases
Warner Music Group’s CFO wants music streaming services to plan recurring subscription price increases, not just one-off rises.
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WMG boss Kyncl talks streaming payouts and generative AI
Two topics loomed large in Warner Music Group’s quarterly earnings call yesterday. First, CEO Robert Kyncl’s views on current payout models in music streaming, and second, his thoughts on the impact generative AI will have on WMG, its artists and the wider music industry.
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New streaming study focuses on Swedish artists’ Spotify payouts
Which Swedish artist has generated the highest payouts from Spotify since the streaming service launched in 2008?No surprise: it’s Avicii.
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Hollywood screenwriters go on strike in streaming video row
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) – which represents screenwriters – has begun a strike spurred partly by the streaming economy.
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Impala offers its latest plan for reforming the streaming economy
In 2021 European indies body Impala published a 10-point plan for reforming music streaming. Now it’s revisited and reworked those ideas.
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Former Spotify economist Will Page causes a stir with equitable remuneration report
Music industry economist Will Page has been ruffling feathers with his latest report: an examination of equitable remuneration (ER) models.
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DiMA says music streaming contributed $14.32bn to US GDP in 2021
The body representing music streaming services, DiMA, has published a report estimating ‘The Impact of Digital Music Streaming’ in the US.