Music Legal: Spotify Paid Over $4.5 Billion to Music Publishers Over the Last Two Years, So Why Are Songwriters Struggling?

[playahaitian]

Spotify Paid Over $4.5 Billion to Music Publishers Over the Last Two Years, So Why Are Songwriters Struggling?

Spotify paid $10 billion to the music industry last year, with $4.5 billion to publishers across 2023-24. So why are songwriters still struggling?

variety.com

@dik cashmere @woodchuck @ViCiouS

 

[tallblacknyc]

Cause the tax man said let me get at least 1.8 billion of that

 

[RoomService]

1,000,000+ artist chopping 4.5 billion dollars doesn’t go a long way.

 

[playahaitian]

1,000,000+ artist chopping 4.5 billion dollars doesn’t go a long way.

^^^^

 

[ViCiouS]

Spotify Paid Over $4.5 Billion to Music Publishers Over the Last Two Years, So Why Are Songwriters Struggling?

Spotify paid $10 billion to the music industry last year, with $4.5 billion to publishers across 2023-24. So why are songwriters still struggling?

variety.com

@dik cashmere @woodchuck @ViCiouS

years ago I told you how streaming was set up so that the very last person that would get paid are the creators
thats why around 5to8 yrs ago the largest performers (Drake Taylor etc etc) cut a side deal to get paid -

not to get a bigger share from labels publishers and streaming platforms -

but instead at the expense of all the other performers

this is part of what Budden was talking about when he said Drake had a moment when there was leverage to change how artists were getting paid



btw - slightly off subject - should be in the ticketmaster rocnation livenation threads

 

[ViCiouS]

1,000,000+ artist chopping 4.5 billion dollars doesn’t go a long way.

Music Publishers are not the artists ....​

 

[playahaitian]

Music Publishers are not the artists ....​

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