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16 Dec Royalty Payouts From Music Streaming Companies Revealed

Posted at 18:16h in Advocacy, Music Business News, The Writer's Block by Tami LaTrell 0 Comments

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What does streaming music pay in 2016? That’s becoming an increasingly tricky question. But here’s the latest breakdown from an artist royalty report, courtesy of, Paul Resnikoff at DigitalMusicNews.com: It takes 776 streams on YouTube to earn a dollar, and just 32 on Microsoft Groove. On...

01 Jul Kobalt Pub CEO Says There Are 900,000 Distinct Royalty Payments For Songwriters

Posted at 19:00h in Music Business News, News by Tami LaTrell 0 Comments

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Here's an excerpt from Kobalt Music CEO, Williard Ahdritz, and originally appeared on Medium. One hit song today can generate up to 900,000 distinct royalty payments, and just one of those could be from Spotify in the U.S., for billions of individual streams, that then have to...