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Royalties

Music Industry 

The average Canadian songwriter made $67.14 from streaming music services last year: Report

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bill C-11, Canada, Royalties, SOCAN, Songwriters, Streaming

SOCAN, the organization responsible for collecting and distributing royalties for artists from live performances, radio airplay, TV use, and digital

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Controversy 

How did a NYT journalist end up collecting royalties from hundreds of musicians?

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments New York Times, Royalties

This is an interesting and heartbreaking story. The full thing runs about 20 minutes, but the lessons contained therein are

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Music News AJMT
Music News 

Random Music News for Monday, December 6, 2021

December 6, 2021December 5, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Comedians, Patton Oswald, Royalties, Spotify

Out of North America until Thursday. I need a PCR test to even get on the plane to come home.

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Music Industry 

SoundCloud’s user-centric streaming plans seem to be paying off

September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Royalties, Soundcloud, Streaming

Earlier this year, SoundCloud teamed up with Portishead to test a new royalty distribution system that it said had the

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Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, July 15, 2021

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Britney Spears, Covid, Cuba, Discovery Mode, Documentaries, Ed Sheeran, Emmys, Eyehategod, Knebworth, NFTs, Oasis, Royalties, Spotify, Streaming, Triller, Virtual Record Labels, Wallflowers

I ordered this shirt. This way people won’t be afraid of me yet will still stay away. Moving on to

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Music Industry 

Portishead is experimenting with SoundCloud’s “fan-powered royalties”

July 10, 2021July 13, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Portishead, Royalties, Soundcloud, Streaming

Complaints about paltry payouts from streaming services are as old as streaming itself. Thousands of artists are wondering if there’s

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Music Industry 

How much do musicians make from streaming? Find out using this royalties calculator. You may be shocked.

April 20, 2021April 21, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Royalties, Royalty Calculator, Streaming

The Royalties Calculator (brought to our attention by Tom) offers and easy way to see how much your favourite musician

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Music Industry 

This meme points out an interesting contradiction…

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Alan Cross 3 Comments Royalties, Spotify

…or does it? Thoughts?

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Music News 

A judge sides with Soundgarden in lawsuit fight with Chris Cornell’s widow

March 26, 2021March 25, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Chris Cornell, Lawsuits, Royalties, Soundgarden, VIcky Cornell

In the long legal fight between the three surviving members of Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell, Chris’ widow, the latest round

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Music Industry 

If you want to know the pitfalls of being a musician, here’s a video on the “music industry scam”

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Alan Cross 1 Comment Advances, Contracts, Royalties

As Hunter S. Thompson once wrote, “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway

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Music Industry 

If you pay for a streaming service and download songs for offline listening, how does that work when it comes to royalty payouts?

March 13, 2020March 12, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Royalties, Spotify

One of the best things about paying for Spotify, Apple Music, or any of the other streaming music services is

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