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...She has worked to hold on to master recording rights so is likely to be entitled to a larger share of royalties. Then there’s the drag on margins from the fan base that wants plastic....
...But under current royalty agreements, every recording is treated the same. “We need an updated model.” This week, that model for music streaming arrived....
...Recordings “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant,” courtesy BMG Music Entertainment See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
...“The carbon footprint of this album, dedicated to Mother Earth has been minimal: its recording didn’t involve any travel.”...
...Taylor Swift has confirmed she is re-recording her entire back catalogue to protest against her life’s recordings being tossed around like some commodity on Wall Street without her consent....
...Credits: Rhino/Elektra, Parlophone UK, UMG Recordings, Elemental Records, Sony Music Entertainment...
...UMG, the world’s largest record label, has already made $3m from Despacito in the US alone, Billboard estimates....
...UMG, the world’s biggest music group and the home of acts such as Taylor Swift and Sam Smith, said in its filing that it had hired a third-party company “just to find and claim UMG’s own content that has...
...Sony Music said in a filing that “untold millions in revenue” would “never be realised by Sony due to plays of Sony Recordings that Content ID does not identify”....
...At present, YouTube licenses music from Vevo, a music site controlled by Sony and UMG, and has separate deals with the labels and Warner Music....
...Credits: UMG Recordings, Inc., Blue Note Records, Universal Island Records Ltd., Not Now Music Ltd...
...In a joint statement, UMG and Havas said that the partnership combines UMG’s proprietary data on its artists with Havas’s behavioural consumer data “to allow for a greater understanding of the correlation...
...“Thank U @apple @Youtube @Spotify especially @UMG_News for selling our music so cheaply.” Take Barrow at his word, and he’s netting about five one-thousandths of a penny per stream....
...UMG and Warner Music Group, two of the three major music companies, have negotiated minority stakes in the business....
...That deal was overseen by Lucian Grainge, now chairman and CEO of UMG, and by Max Hole, now chairman and CEO of UMG’s international division....
...“James v UMG Recordings” is a dispute about how much money musicians should receive from digital downloads of their work....
...The inexorable decline of physical recordings reduced sales by 1.7 per cent and ebita by 18.5 per cent in the first half....
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