Music Business Worldwide

royalties

Songwriters of North America hit back at Spotify CRB appeal

Songwriter advocacy group pledges loud public campaign

ICE Services signs multi-territory licensing deal with Facebook

Deal aims to ensure music rightsholders are accurately compensated for the use of their works

Financial platform Stem, which counts Frank Ocean and Childish Gambino as clients, raises $8m

Total money raised so far by royalties software tops $12.5m

Drake’s More Life tops 250m streams across Apple Music and Spotify in two-and-a-half days

Playlist reaches nearly 600m streams over two days

Sacem teams with IBM to build ‘transparent’ online royalty system

URights will be open-source so other CMO’s worldwide can integrate their catalogues

Tru Thoughts signs up to Backbeat Royalty System

Brighton label praises solution as 'extremely helpful'

Songwriters suffer from ‘nonsensical disparity’ of streaming payments… says a Grammy-winning artist

'The time for change is now', argues Ne-Yo

The Orchard acquires royalty processing firm RoyaltyShare

Also makes 'strategic investment' in Korrect

SoundExchange agrees rates with NPR and CPB

New royalties will be paid from 2016-2020

Gracenote veteran Stephen White named Dubset CEO

President Bob Barbiere returns to COO role

Her global hit’s been played millions of times on YouTube and Spotify. So why is it only earning this songwriter £4 a day?

'Where's my money gone!?'