In this second part of a series on how to collect all the revenue you’re owed from your music, we shift gears to look at the income which can be earned from acting as a label, publisher, and producer, three different roles that, as an independent artist, you may very…
Category archives: royalties
Music Royalties Explained: Where To Sign Up To Get All Your Royalties
Royalties are, in the many ways, the number one source of income for a lot of musicians, particularly once they start to make it big, which is why making sure you’re registered in the proper place to actually see that income is so important. __________________________ In this latest article on…
Sony Music To Launch ‘Real Time’ Royalty Payments
Sony Music is promising its artists real time royalty tracking and monthly payments starting this fall. The major music group will launch ‘Real Time Royalties’ and ‘Cash Out’ via its Artist Portal to “allow our artists and royalty participants to view and withdraw earnings faster than ever before.” “Once launched,…
Revelator Launches Artists Wallet To Enable Real-Time Royalty Payments
Multi-territorial music rights administrator Revelator has launched Artist Wallet, a mobile copyright app that uses smart contracts technology to turn future receivables into instant royalty payments. Slow, delayed and inaccurate distribution of royalty payments have long afflicted the entertainment industry. Using Artist Wallet, when a song is streamed online or…
Black Box Income Most Musicians Don’t Even Know About
Some of the most common advice given to indie artists is to populate their metadata. In the streaming age in particular, telling organizations who you are and how to get ahold of you is key to your getting paid. Still, many artists’ failure to do this has resulted in pools…
Songwriters of North America hit back at Spotify CRB appeal
Songwriter advocacy group pledges loud public campaign
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Amuse To Utilize Machine Learning To Calculate Royalty Advances
Royalty advances are typically an unpredictable shot in the dark about what an artist is worth, with publishers seeking to keep it as low as possible, while artists work to squeeze as much money out as possible. In hopes to remove some of the polarizing ambiguity from this process, Swedish…
Fair Pay, Fair Fight: For Musician Radio Royalties, Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
After the struggle of getting the Music Modernization Act passed and allegedly gave pre-1972 artists the royalties they finally deserved, a new merger between Sirius and Pandora by their hold-tightening parent company Liberty Media, has artists and advocates gearing up for an ongoing fight against tech companies and their lobbyists….
You May Have a Hit Song and Not Even Know About It
When it comes to radio, the music industry is still primarily based on reporting. This means that mistakes and inaccuracies happen all the time. My vision is to have a transparent music industry based on monitoring, instead of reporting, so that in t…
I’m an Award-Winning Cellist and Composer. Want to See My Royalties?
So, how much does Zoe Keating make from streaming? Every now and then, Digital Music News covers what real artists make from streaming platforms. One artist last year, for example, made just €403.27, or $470.47, on Spotify from 122,364 total play…