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Changing streaming’s royalty model will unlock a new music economy

Blog post by Kriss Thakrar

12 Jul 2022

It has been an excellent year for the music industry as it enters a new era of growth . While streaming has been at the heart of this growth, there is an underlying tension between platforms and the artists...

Spotify’s Loud and Clear is about fandom, not royalties

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

24 Mar 2022

streaming music

Spotify

streaming royalties

Spotify has updated its Loud & Clear website exploring how it pays royalties to rightsholders, and it claims that more artists are earning income on the platform than ever before. Many in the music...

Streaming’s remuneration model cannot be ‘fixed’

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

12 Aug 2020

Music

streaming

remuneration

The #brokenrecord debate continues to build momentum and new models such as user-centric are getting increased attention, including at governmental level in the UK. But as Mat Dryhurst correctly observes...

Time to stop playing the velocity game

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Jul 2020

Music

streaming

music marketing

We all know that streaming has transformed consumption and business models alike, but this is not a ‘now-completed’ process. Instead it is one that continues to evolve at pace, and the dynamic of pace...

Artists are Learning How it Feels to be a Songwriter

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Jun 2020

artist income

artists

broken record

The ‘broken record’ streaming debate that continues to rage on is a natural consequence of the instantaneous collapse of live music revenue following lockdown. As soon as it was clear that live was...

Songwriters Aren’t Getting Paid Enough and Here’s Why

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

10 Sep 2019

cmos

Drake

google

Music Business Worldwide recently ran a story on how Apple has proposed a standard streaming rate for songwriters, with Google and Spotify apparently resistant. Of course, Apple can afford to run Apple...

Playlist Malfeasance Will Create a Streaming Crisis

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 May 2019

artists

labels

per stream rates

Streaming economics are facing a potential crisis. The problem does not lie in the market itself; after all, in Q1 2019 streaming revenue became more than half of the recorded music business and Spotify...

Creator Support: A New Take on User Centric Licensing

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

26 Apr 2019

Amuse

artist streaming income

artists

User-centric licensing (i.e. stream pay-outs based on sharing the royalty income of an individual user split across the music they listen to) has stimulated a lot of debate. I first explored the concept...

Here’s How Spotify Can Fix Its Songwriter Woes (Hint: It’s All About Pricing)

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Mar 2019

music publishers

netflix

Songwriter royalties have always been a pain point for streaming, especially in the US where statutory rates determine much of how songwriters get paid. The current debate over Spotify, Amazon, Pandora...