In the two weeks since Neil Young first announced he’d be leaving Spotify over concerns about Joe Rogan’s Covid misinformation, conversations about the corporate streaming behemoth have erupted across the music industry. While many, like India Arie and Joni Mitchell, have kept the pressure focused on Rogan, who has a $100 million deal with the company, others, from Rosanne Cash to Sadie Dupuis, have taken the opportunity to open up larger conversations about Spotify’s payout structures, artist rights, and the streaming economy at large.
In the midst of these conversations,...
In the midst of these conversations,...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
When Ashley Monroe wakes in the morning, she often heads straight to her closet. “I hear melodies in here,” says the singer-songwriter, calling from inside the cramped space during a recent interview.
In the quiet early morning hours of 2018 and 2019, Monroe heard much more than melodies in her closet. Fully fleshed-out arrangements — bass grooves, synth lines, vocal hooks — spontaneously presented themselves in her head. “I was hearing them like the songs were already written,” she says. If she liked something enough, she’d sing whatever she could a cappella and make a voice demo.
In the quiet early morning hours of 2018 and 2019, Monroe heard much more than melodies in her closet. Fully fleshed-out arrangements — bass grooves, synth lines, vocal hooks — spontaneously presented themselves in her head. “I was hearing them like the songs were already written,” she says. If she liked something enough, she’d sing whatever she could a cappella and make a voice demo.
- 4/29/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been a little over a week since it was announced that supermanager Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings would be buying Big Machine Label Group — and Taylor Swift’s masters — thus launching a war of words between Big Machine president Scott Borchetta and the superstar artist that made his label. But Music Row and country music in general are wondering about something more than just who is winning the PR battle: and that’s what the presence of Braun will mean to Nashville and the future of Big Machine itself.
- 7/10/2019
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
Now that checks are on their way to thousands of artists in the Sony Music system, the result of the company’s plan to share the $750 million in profit it collected from the April sale of 50% of its Spotify stock (the company held a 5.7% share when the streaming service went public), some lingering questions remain, chief among them: Who is the check made out to? Conversations with multiple music industry insiders offer some answers.
Is Sony obligated to share this money? No. The investment was Sony’s and, while the company states that it “obtained Spotify equity by in part balancing the strength of over 100 years of Sony Music Entertainment’s success, both in the past and present,” it specifically characterizes the payment as “a gesture of good will … without recovery of outstanding advances and recording costs or other recoupable sums and regardless of whether specifically required by contract.” In contrast,...
Is Sony obligated to share this money? No. The investment was Sony’s and, while the company states that it “obtained Spotify equity by in part balancing the strength of over 100 years of Sony Music Entertainment’s success, both in the past and present,” it specifically characterizes the payment as “a gesture of good will … without recovery of outstanding advances and recording costs or other recoupable sums and regardless of whether specifically required by contract.” In contrast,...
- 8/20/2018
- by Shirley Halperin
- Variety Film + TV
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