The stakes for NBC’s ‘Songland’ just got higher. Ahead of its premiere Tuesday night, the songwriting competition series has announced a global recordings and publishing partnership with BMG.
Source: NBC’s ‘Songland’ Songwriting Competition Inks Recording & Publishing Partnership With BMG
Going direct with ICE has enabled us to be paid much quicker, more efficiently, and with less commission deducted. Also, we wanted to ensure we had insight to our data at a high level across DSPs, and this arrangement provides access to ICE’s BI [business intelligence] tools.
Source: ‘We are here to serve songwriters – we cut out middle-people as much as we can.’
Rudimental’s uplifting dance track These Days has been named the most-performed song of 2018 at the prestigious Ivor Novello Awards. But their prize had to be shared between nine writers – a phenomenon that’s become increasingly common.
Four big German publisher sales houses are collaborating in order to fight the market power of tech platforms. Axel Springer and Funke Mediengruppe’s joint sales house, Media Impact, has joined forces with the joint sales house of fellow publishing juggernauts RTL Group and Gruner+Jahr to solidify an advertising alliance that sells the combined inventory of all four media groups.
Source: Germany’s biggest publisher sales houses unite to fight Google, Facebook and Amazon
Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Konrad Szymanski said that the “system may result in adopting regulations that are analogous to preventive censorship, which is forbidden not only in the Polish constitution but also in the EU treaties.” Polish MPs predominantly rejected the measure (Two abstentions, eight for, 33 against, six no-votes, and two missing) when it was voted on.
It is no secret that major record companies now struggle to ink deals with artists in accordance with the contracts these companies were once able to get signed – both in terms of the duration for which the label will own/control the rights, and the percentage of digital royalties they will pay out.
Source: Record labels are spending more and more on signing (and paying) artists…
An inaugural conference for public media’s music stations gave participants a rare chance last week to discuss common concerns among their organizations, including changes to copyright law that would help them innovate on digital platforms.
Source: Debut of music station summit zeroes in on challenges posed by copyright law
Copyright issues have plagued YouTube and its community for years, but creators are calling this moment in time one of the worst eras for trying to navigate the platform. Over the past six months, multiple YouTubers have run into issues with what they describe as aggressive copyright claims from record labels.
Source: YouTubers and record labels are fighting, and record labels keep winning
The app’s ascension comes at a fraught moment for the music industry, in which streaming revenue has surpassed physical sales but overall revenue remains soft, in large part because of how much music is available free online.
Source: TikTok Is Turning New Artists Into Viral Sensations. But Who Actually Benefits?