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PPL Pays £12.7 Million ($15.4 Million) in Neighboring Rights Royalties for Q3 2023

October 2, 2023

Photo Credit: TraceyAPhotos In its Q3 distribution, UK’s leading Collective Management Organization PPL paid out £12.7 million ($15.43 million) to over 25,500 performers and recording rights holders. PPL’s D... Read More...

Songtradr Is Now the Largest Shareholder in Publicly-Listed Tech Company Jaxsta (ASX: JXT)

Raha Ali

September 17, 2023

Songtradr CEO Paul Wiltshire. Photo Credit: Songtradr B2B music rights and licensing marketplace Songtradr now holds 14.04% of Jaxsta's shares, making it the largest shareholder of the Sydney-based credits da... Read More...

OmMuse Is Replacing ‘Noisy,’ Disparate Platforms With an All-Inclusive Hub Of Artist Tools

Paul Resnikoff

September 11, 2023

Most artists end up juggling various platforms and multiple ‘dashboards’ during the production, distribution, and promotion of their music. Now, OmMuse is working to consolidate everything an artist needs int... Read More...

Songtrust Battled Suspensions from PRS, SACEM, ICE Over Fraudulent and Problematic Accounts, Sources Reveal

Paul Resnikoff

September 8, 2023

Downtown Music Holdings-owned Songtrust faced serious and extended suspensions from major rights societies PRS for Music, SACEM, and the collective ICE over a rash of fraudulent and problematic accounts, mult... Read More...

British Music Industry Unilaterally Agrees to Music Metadata Improvements

Ashley King

May 31, 2023

Photo Credit: Seb Doe The U.K. music industry has unilaterally agreed to improve streaming metadata delivered to DSPs like Spotify and Apple Music. An agreement drawn up by the Intellectual Property Office (... Read More...

How to Create Artist One Sheets In a Few Seconds With Chartmetric

Mathilde Neu

May 19, 2023

Photo Credit: OneSheet/Chartmetric You can now benefit from Chartmetric’s wide database to create artist one sheets in a matter of seconds — with information always remaining up-to-date and accurate. The fol... Read More...

Sound Credit Releases Version 6 – A ‘New Standard for Transferring Music’ Aims to Resolve the Metadata Crisis

Paul Resnikoff

April 13, 2023

Sound Credit CEO Gebre Waddell pictured at the 65th Grammy Awards, where he announced a $30 million advance facility for North American users’ neighboring rights royalties Sound Credit’s Version 6 brings dece... Read More...

The Modernization of MusicOps — How & Why Music Operations is Evolving

Ashley King

March 20, 2023

Photo Credit: Hans Vivek Much like a band, the music industry functions like a well-oiled machine. There’s always a team of people who work behind the scenes in concert with one another to keep everything run... Read More...

Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) Refuses to Disclose ‘Black Box’ Account Figures as Total Payouts Top $1 Billion

Paul Resnikoff

February 27, 2023

More questions than answers continue to surround the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) as both royalty payouts and unallocated 'black box' holding accounts reach astronomical levels. The Mechanical Licen... Read More...

Pictured at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 5th, 2023 (l to r): Peter Leathem OBE, CEO of PPL; Gebre Waddell, CEO & Founder of Sound Credit; and Tim Smith, Bee Partners (Photo Credit: Sound Credit)

Sound Credit Partners With PPL — North American Creators Can Now Collect Neighboring Rights Royalties

Paul Resnikoff

February 7, 2023

Pictured at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 5th, 2023 (l to r): Peter Leathem OBE, CEO of PPL; Gebre Waddell, CEO & Founder of Sound Credit; and Tim Smith, Bee Partners (Photo Cred... Read More...

Immensity Marketing Analytics – Solving The Music Industry’s Attribution Problem With Machine Learning And Data Science

Immensity

January 17, 2023

Immensity is an intelligent marketing analytics system that uses advanced statistics and machine learning to figure out which social activities or marketing campaigns are actually driving audience growth, fan... Read More...

Muso.AI Unveils ‘ENCORE,’ a Stunningly Simple Consolidation of Creator Credits

Paul Resnikoff

December 19, 2022

Muso.AI has announced the arrival of ENCORE 2022 — designed to bring together disparate music credits into a unique, dynamically-updating accolade. ENCORE allows behind-the-scenes artists to showcase their ca... Read More...