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We do not own rights, we're not a label, all our music is licensed from rightsholders and we pay them—we don't pay ourselves. [4] Shortly after, Music Business Worldwide reflected on their "widely-read story" from 2016 in light of Spotify's denial of "fake artists" allegations. The publication closely scrutinized Spotify's statement, pointing ...
Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch, [1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service.
Nashville-based Mechanical Licensing Collective has sued Spotify alleging the streaming giant created a bundled subscription to surreptitiously reduce songwriter royalty payments.
Last June, NMPA filed a legal complaint against Spotify over its music-audiobooks “bundling” deal, which meant a lower mechanical royalty for songwriters. Last month, Universal Music announced ...
After much speculation on what Spotify’s updated payment model would actually look like, the streaming giant finally released a comprehensive breakdown in a blog post late last month. Although ...
In 2020, The MLC announced that four music data companies had joined its Data Quality Initiative (DQI), including: Blokur, Exactuals, Music Data Services, and TuneRegistry. [3] This move was made to ensure the accuracy of their musical works data in its current database. As of January 2021, the MLC began paying royalties to rights owners. [4]
Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, and Spotify, the world’s largest paid streaming service, announced on Sunday new, multi-year agreements for recorded music and music ...
The news also comes two days after Spotify reached a new deal with the world’s largest music company, Universal, that sees more-favorable royalty payments to musicians from the service’s ...