Music Artist Royalties
The cluster centers on debates about how little money musicians and artists receive from music sales and streams, due to royalty structures where record labels, publishers, rights holders, and middlemen take the majority of revenues.
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What you pay for albums != what the artist receives for them.
The artist isn't making that money, the rights holder is. Who knows how many hands see that money before the artist does.
Reputable musicians will pay the royalities anyway...
No thanks, one likes earning a few cents from their published music.
There are two kinds of rights when it comes to paying royalties for music: performing rights and mechanical rights. Performing rights are most commonly owned by the composer or the publisher and mechanical rights are usually owned by the publisher and the record label. Note that the performer doesn't own any of these rights. Unfortunately, performers (or "bands") are not entitled for compensation based on record sales, unless the deal they signed with their publisher or record label specifically
Music industry seems to work like that, set in stone % shared royalties based on your role/ownership
indeed - record company exec salaries don't come out of the ether, that's money that could otherwise go in the artists' pockets
how much will the actual artists get?
Well musicians do voluntarily sign the contracts with major labels. And they do get payed for it.https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/943818966/bob-dylan-sells-son...
This is more a reflection of the royalty structure for recorded music than anything else.