Music licensing has so many weird layers of lawyers and agents and middlemen. From what I've read most artists only really make money when they go on tour and sell tickets and merch. Pretty sad.
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Apple Pays $163.34 Million in Licensing Fees for Songwriters and Publishers
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Pretty sure there aren’t millions of artists on Apple Music. Takes me less time to scroll through the list than it does to scroll Facebook‘s privacy label.
No the rates are not the same. Apple pays about 50% more per stream.
This Chart Tells You What Streaming Services Are Paying (Maybe) - Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog
Published streaming royalty rates can show a disparity between what services pay, but you can never be sure of the numbers.
music3point0.com
is there a genre exclusion? I have never found it. where is it? I have been disliking songs one by one. No more country or rap, or their evil stepchild crap! Seriously, there isn't one, I see many artists ruin a beautiful song by putting some bonehead in it with a bunch of rap lines, why? so many of the others blend between genres, when is it alternative, folk, or just plain country? A lot of genre bending
millions might be a stretch, but they do have a bigger library than Spotify, yet you can find exclusive in both, weird something to do with licensing
Confused.
Is this the total amount of royalties all streaming services have paid since a certain point of time?
Or is it some sort of one off payment in relation to a dispute in addition to the existing royalty payments?
If it’s the former then I can’t believe the figures are so small. Apple total contribution is about on par with the production budget of a single high budget movie.
Is this the total amount of royalties all streaming services have paid since a certain point of time?
Or is it some sort of one off payment in relation to a dispute in addition to the existing royalty payments?
If it’s the former then I can’t believe the figures are so small. Apple total contribution is about on par with the production budget of a single high budget movie.
Artists can thank Taylor Swift for writing that open letter to Apple in 2015 about her urgency on Apple Music’s fair artist compensation.
You’re rambling here. Yes, just like when a brewery in the US sells direct to its customers, does it recognize the
small margins. I can see your point about the middle-“man” (not an attack fyi) making money and the margins shrinking in that model where they exist. How are consumers in either case getting screwed? This is streaming...you pay a monthly fee for a service provided. You choose which one you want to pay for based on many factors.
163m given how many users are on Apple Music, podcasts or whatever content is being consumed on apple seems ridiculously low.
artists truly getting screwed everyday by these tech companies,.
artists truly getting screwed everyday by these tech companies,.
That’s surprising. Why on earth would the recording industry not demand the higher rate from everyone?No the rates are not the same. Apple pays about 50% more per stream.
This Chart Tells You What Streaming Services Are Paying (Maybe) - Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog
Published streaming royalty rates can show a disparity between what services pay, but you can never be sure of the numbers.
Not as scummy as Spotify.
Napster pays out more than Tidal and has more users. Makes you wonder what an artist owned Tidal is doing wrong https://www.informationisbeautiful....ic-streaming-services-royalty-rates-compared/
Because Spotify isn’t making a profit, so maybe there’s a limit to hope much they can try to squeeze out of companies who are propping up said service with money from elsewhere?
Globally? No.
But you're right in US only. Regardless, Apple Music pays a higher percentage of royalties. That's a fact.
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Because when they did, people just used torrents to get music and everyone got paid a nice round f*ckall.
I sell digital goods myself - piracy is a strong argument to keep my prices as low as possible, because there isn't much I can do otherwise. Normal supply/demand mechanism breaks down once your work can be copied for free.
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This payment is for unmatched royalties, that is why it is so low. Apple, Spotify, doesnt know who the proper rights holder for these payouts, so the money is given to this licensing association to try to find the rights holder.
That link is old and stats are way off. Apple has a lot less paid subscribers than Spotify.
Finally someone who read the article in full before chiming in
Thank you! I was suffering a mental block regarding what “unmatched royalties” means.