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Living Wage for Musicians bill aims to increase streaming royalties for artists

Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman have introduced the bill to Congress, working together with the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers

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...

New mix platform, wav.world, launches with payments for DJs and producers

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

A new mix platform wants to "give music the value it deserves" by paying contributing DJs and featured artists. wav.world is a new subscription-based mix...

Apple Music to pay higher royalties for music in Spatial Audio

Artists will receive a 10% higher royalty fee for spatial audio content

Apple Music has revealed that it is to begin paying artists higher royalties for music made available in Spatial Audio. As of this month, artists...

Streaming

158.6 million tracks fell short of the 1,000 mark while almost a quarter received no streams at all

86% of music on streaming platforms received fewer than 1000 plays in 2023. According to the 2023 year-end music report from Luminate – who measure...

BMI, music licensing giant, sold to private equity firm, New Mountain Capital

The deal is now subject to "shareholder and regulatory approval"

Broadcast Music Inc (BMI), one of the world's leading music licensing agencies responsible for distributing royalties to artists, has been sold to a private equity...

Spotify

Spotify will also target "functional" non-music noise with several new policies

Spotify has confirmed details of its new royalty policy, which will get rid of payments for tracks under 1,000 streams. The move forms part of...

Songs on Spotify will need 1,000 streams to make royalties from 2024

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

Spotify will implement a minimum number of streams for artist payment next year, a new report confirms. Music Business Worldwide reports the Swedish streaming giant...

Max Romeo pursues $15 million lawsuit for unpaid royalties

"I have exhausted every resource available to me to get this matter rectified," says the Reggae legend

Legendary reggae artist Max Romeo has filed a $15 million lawsuit against Universal Music Group and PolyGram Publishing over unpaid royalties dating back to 1976...

Chicago’s Trax Records sued by over a dozen artists over unpaid royalties

Rolling Stone reports that Adonis, Marshall Jefferson and co-founder Vince Lawrence are among the claimants

Trax Records, the Chicago record label that played a key role in the development of house music, is being sued by over a dozen artists...

SoundCloud

Warner is the first major label to adopt the user-centric payout system

Warner Music Group has adopted SoundCloud's Fan-Powered Royalties (FPR) system for streams. The major label, home to the likes of David Guetta, Gorillaz, and Lizzo...

sony_music

It's being expanded to include eligible unrecouped artists and songwriters globally who have been with Sony for over 20 years

Sony Music Entertainment has announced that it's set to expand its policy of paying out royalties to legacy artists and producers who signed to the...

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...

82% of artists earn less than £200 a year from streaming

“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...

It’s the year 2025. You’re having dinner with a friend, and your phone vibrates with a notification — Charlotte De Witte is playing your record...

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...

DJs and producers are supposed to be on the same side. For decades now, producers have made the music, and DJs have played it. Simply...

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...

Streaming is everywhere. Earlier this year, Spotify announced that it has 217 million users, more than 100 million of which are paid subscribers. They’re followed...

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...

In July 2018, DJ Mag published a feature on why streaming in the booth will change DJing forever. It included this: “It’s an open secret...

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...