by Charlotte Hassan Apple Music plans to significantly increase songwriter royalty rates. In a recent proposal to the US Copyright Royalty Board, Apple suggests that the royalty rate should be set at 9.1 cents per […]
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Spotify Is About to Crush That $200 Million Class Action Lawsuit
by Paul Resnikoff $5 million later, Spotify seems to be walking away clean. It now looks like Spotify is soundly defeating a $200 million class action lawsuit from songwriters and publishers.  Initially, Spotify faced a scary, $150 […]
Spotify – Facing Possible Patent Troll Lawsuit
by Charlotte Hassan Spotify is facing yet another lawsuit…but this time it’s over trademarks and patents. Today, a lawsuit was filed against Spotify by Post Media Systems LLC.  Post Media claims that the streaming service breaches […]
Troy Carter – Ditches Artist Management To Help Spotify With Artist Exclusives
by Charlotte Hassan Spotify needs an emissary.  Is Troy Carter the guy? Spotify has another idea for increasing subscriber growth and warming icy artist relations.  The platform is now hiring Troy Carter — formerly Lady Gaga’s […]
Major Label CEO Confirms That ‘Playlist Payola’ Is a Real Thing
by Paul Resnikoff If you don’t sign with my label, you won’t get onto my playlist. If you’re looking for an industry cliché, here’s a good one: ‘playlists are the new radio.’  And like most clichés, […]
Tidal Is Growing Faster Than Apple and Spotify COMBINED
by Charlotte Hassan Tidal subscribers are surging at unprecedented rate… In fact, since Kanye’s album dropped exclusively on Tidal in February, the platform has doubled its subscriber number.  Now, it’s added at least another one million […]
Looks Like Spotify Settlement Checks Are Already Rolling In
by Paul Resnikoff Yes, this is actually a check mailed by the Harry Fox Agency for mechanical publishing royalties.  No, it’s not on behalf of Spotify (yet…). When will songwriters and publishers start to receive back-payments […]
How to Quintuple Your Streaming Royalties In About One Hour
by Paul Resnikoff This is how you can hack your streaming royalties. Earlier this year, DMN starting asking artists and labels to share their streaming royalty statements, which unearthed a pile of incredible per-stream statistics.  That’s […]