A new bill aiming to increase streaming royalties to artists has been introduced to the United States Congress. Put forward by House Representatives Rashida Tlaib...
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Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman have introduced the bill to Congress, working together with the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers
The new subscription-based mix platform asks, "What if we treated music with the value it deserves?" — the first edition is helmed by Fever AM's Mor Elian and Rhyw
Artists will receive a 10% higher royalty fee for spatial audio content
158.6 million tracks fell short of the 1,000 mark while almost a quarter received no streams at all
The deal is now subject to "shareholder and regulatory approval"
Spotify will also target "functional" non-music noise with several new policies
The Swedish streaming giant won't pay artists royalties for their music until they hit a minimum number of plays per year, new report confirms
"I have exhausted every resource available to me to get this matter rectified," says the Reggae legend
Rolling Stone reports that Adonis, Marshall Jefferson and co-founder Vince Lawrence are among the claimants
Warner is the first major label to adopt the user-centric payout system
It's being expanded to include eligible unrecouped artists and songwriters globally who have been with Sony for over 20 years
Artists that signed to Sony before 2000, and have yet to recoup their advances, will start receiving royalties “to increase the ability of those who...
Sony Music Entertainment has announced that it will begin paying out royalties to legacy artists and producers who signed to the company before 2000, and...
Rham Records has refuted the producer's allegations
Gerald Simpson, aka A Guy Called Gerald, says he has never been paid for his 1988 single 'Voodoo Ray' or his 1989 album, 'Hot Lemonade'...
The Chic frontman spoke out in front of MPs yesterday
Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers argued that major labels are to blame for low artist income from streaming platforms, appearing before MPs yesterday as part of...
“We have to make the economics of streaming fairer”
82% of musicians earned less than £200 from streaming in 2019, according to a new poll by the UK’s independent body for music creators, The...
Data is the new currency and DJing is about to get rich. The endless stream of data generated from cloud DJing will go on to affect...
As part of our end of year and end of decade coverage, we've written about our favourite albums, tracks and compilations. Here, DJ Mag staff...
Streaming has come to dominate the music industry, but when it comes to actually earning money from plays, the electronic music community has been somewhat...
A lack of data, information, and will has left electronic music producers lagging way behind their commercial counterparts. DJ Mag outlines how that happened, how...
The streaming giants have filed a 92-page appeal...
Spotify, Google, Amazon and Pandora have launched an appeal to overturn increase in songwriter royalties.
The four industry leaders in music streaming have filed a...