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Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO and chief content officer, revealed what he said was the “most comprehensive look so far” at the streamer’s top 10 TV shows and movies. Shonda Rhimes’ “Bridgerton” Season 1 scored as the No. 1 series based on both number of Netflix households and time spent viewing while “Extraction” was the most-viewed film in terms of households and “Bird Box” was the most-watched movie in terms of hours.

Source: Netflix Releases New Data on Most Popular TV Shows and Movies

For musicians who earn money from their music, 40% said that their overall income has increased since 2015, 32% said that it had decreased, and 28% said that it had stayed the same. Note the ‘overall’ word there: one of the report’s other findings is that for many musicians, recorded music is only a ‘small proportion’ of their earnings.

Source: UK research on music creators’ digital earnings is out today – Music Ally

BMG has pledged its support for Credits Due, a new campaign by songwriters to ensure they are credited and paid for their work. The campaign was launched yesterday (September 21) by ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus at the Ivors music awards event in the UK. BMG is the first international music company to commit to the campaign.

Source: BMG backs Credits Due campaign for songwriters launched by ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus

Bjorn Ulvaeus, co-founder of ABBA and president of CISAC, unveiled a new global initiative called “Credits Due” on Tuesday that is intended to upgrade the music industry’s payment processes. The initiative, created by the Ivors Academy and the Music Rights Awareness Foundation is intended to “unite the music industry’s approach to ensuring that complete and accurate song metadata is attached to all recordings at the point of creation.”

Source: ABBA’s Bjorn Ulveus Unveils ‘Credits Due’ Program to ‘Ensure the Right People Get Paid’ for Music

Believe is refusing to share domestic market data with SNEP, which is responsible for tracking the size of the French recorded music market. That has led SNEP to choose not to publish first-half figures for the French recorded music market for the first time in more than a decade.

Source: French Labels Body SNEP Blames Believe For Holdup Of Market Report

YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl has revealed that a full 25 percent of YouTube viewer hours are spent on music, with another 25 percent deriving from media companies and the remaining half coming from user-generated content. Factoring based upon Google higher-up Philipp Schindler’s statement that there were “a billion-plus hours of video watched every day” on YouTube as of Q2 2021, users spend over 250 million hours daily enjoying music on the service.

Source: YouTube Exec Says 25% of All Viewer Hours Are Spent on Music

Curators say playlists are being reported for a variety of reasons, though oversight is lacking and claims aren’t properly investigated. Playlists can be reported for a variety of reasons, including sexual, violent, deceptive, or hateful content. As soon as a report is received, the playlist’s metadata is removed immediately. That includes the title, description, and any custom playlist image. No internal review process stops the metadata removal from happening once a single report is received.

Source: Spotify Playlist Curators Says ‘Copyright Abuse’ Is On the Rise

For years, Nielsen Holdings PLC has been synonymous with measuring U.S. TV ratings, which provide audience estimates that networks use to sell commercial time and reassure advertisers they got what they paid for. But Nielsen’s hold is loosening as streaming gains steam and traditional broadcast and cable TV lose viewers.

Source: Nielsen’s Grip Over TV Ratings Loosens Amid Streaming Boom

With box office numbers way down in the pandemic and streaming numbers hard to come by, the film industry is often unable to determine whether a movie is a hit or a miss. But studio bosses need something, anything to guide them as they make billion-dollar judgment calls for the seasons ahead.

Source: How’s Hollywood to Plan When It Doesn’t Know Who’s Watching What?

PPL and 19-year-old VEVA Sound just recently announced and detailed their partnership, which is designed to “make it easier for performers to be properly credited on recordings and to receive the payments they are entitled to.” Built and tailored for artists, VEVA Collect encourages musicians, songwriters, and producers to frontload their music metadata and credit specifics before checking in via the platform’s app while in the studio, thereby ensuring that they’re credited on the work(s) at hand.

Source: VEVA Sound, PPL Target Unpaid Royalties in Metadata-Focused Deal