Here's an article explaining much more about how spotify, apple music and other streaming services share royalties: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2015/06/09/breaking-apple-is-paying-just-58-of-streaming-royalties-back-to-indie-artists/#comment-243279
For anyone that's interested to read more on this subject, here's a very detailed post on how the royalties break down from spotify, apple music and other streaming services: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2015/06/09/breaking-apple-is-paying-just-58-of-streaming-royalties-back-to-indie-artists/#comment-243278
I have a small record label and this past month had 55,000 streams through Spotify. We got paid by Spotify 0.004 which is less than what Spotify claims to pay in all of their press releases.
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The entire industry is fixed .... for example I need music equipment to make better quality recordings.... heres the catch , I must have 2 million dollars of methane insurance to be even eligible...
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David Byrne: 'The internet will suck all creative content out of the world' ..IT ALREADY HAS ITS FUCKED BIG TIME..
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Better late than never. it's predecessor Beats Music was doing the same thing by not paying artists during their trial subscriptions. Of course, THEIR trial subscriptions were only two weeks long...
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Paul how is "Pro-rata" defined?
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Definitely buried the lede here. ZERO royalties for 3 fucking months of streaming is fucked up.
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Apple like many DSPs fail to realize that A LOT of indies talk to one another. I'm hearing from literally dozens of mid sized to large indie labels (and some distributors even) that they are NOT ...
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Good on labels/artists that run their own download/streaming services. Like direct mailorder back in the day.. 100 direct known customers with a proper margin put more bread on the table than hun...
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256kbps streams! Apple once again leads the way in shity sound and devaluing music! Yay Apple, savior of the music business! (Oh, I never knew tears of laughter could be so sweet....)
LOL. Months of Spotify-hate when they were paying 70% to rightsholders. How's the free market response of 58% sound, stupid whiny sons of bitches? LOLz. This ALMOST makes me want to actually be a...
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For indie label owners, this from A2IM (referencing Digital Music News as its source): http://a2im.org/news/apple-music-discussion/ Take away: if you're concerned about the deal terms, DON'T SIGN...
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So if you had any sense (or balls) you would at least sign this after the trial period. Seeing you're getting ZERO from it.
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Spotify's own propaganda screed, 'Spotify Explained', states that: "Spotify negotiates our royalty economics with labels and publishers in each territory where we operate. Our current payment agr...
This is idiotic reporting and link bait. This is 58% to the recording artist. I'm sure they also pay 12% to the composer. Those are industry-standard terms. And guess what, they add up to 70%.
It's time to stop delivery of new music to I-Tunes, especially the new music streaming service. No Money equals no new music!
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This seems to be 58% for the labels on the sound recording, but doesn't include the 10.5% mandated for publishing (mechanicals and PROS) in the U.S., at least. Adding that back gets you pretty cl...
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