It's been over 30 years since Gabrielle burst onto the music scene. Best known for her 90s hit 'Dreams', the singer/songwriter made a successful comeback to the industry in 2000 with her number one song 'Rise'.
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November 2023, there are over one million tracks that have been sped-up, slowed-down or otherwise “modified” in places like Spotify, Apple Music and TIDAL. Examples include a sped-up version of Lady Gaga‘s ‘Bloody Mary‘ (25 million streams) and Childish Gambino’s ‘Heartbeat‘ (19 million streams).These “manipulated” tracks usually do not have legal licensing to be used, meaning they are infringing on copyright.
The original artists therefore do not collect royalties on the song’s streams.In a new interview with Music Business World, Pex CEO Rasty Turek said “there is [a] huge following of people trying to essentially enjoy content like this. Nightcore mixes, and so on.
And I do think that there is a legitimate seed to the movement. If people enjoy this kind of music, they should absolutely have access to it.“But at the same time, proper attribution should be required,” he continued.
“And this is much more up to the platforms and services than it is up to the artist to essentially go and fish out.”Spotify has been trying to combat the large number of songs being uploaded on their platform, along with shifting royalty allocation. It was revealed this month that around a quarter of music on streaming services didn’t get played at all.That followed the news of Spotify’s policy change, which would require all songs on the platform to have a minimum of 1,000 streams before they can earn any royalties.Recently, the European Union has called for changes to the streaming business, asking for higher royalty payments for artists as well as “correctly allocating metadata” to make artists’ works more visible.
.It's been over 30 years since Gabrielle burst onto the music scene. Best known for her 90s hit 'Dreams', the singer/songwriter made a successful comeback to the industry in 2000 with her number one song 'Rise'.
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“I didn’t really know much about the making of the song,” admits The Greatest Night in Pop director Bao Nguyen of 1985’s star-studded Ethiopian famine relief hit “We Are the World.” “You just make these assumptions about how things are made because it just happens. But when you think now of 46 great artists getting together to make that, it would be really impossible for that to happen now.”
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adopted a resolution to address the imbalance of revenue allocation in music streaming, including creating a new legal framework for streaming. There are currently no EU rules that apply to the sector.In the resolution, “pre-digital royalty rates” are to be revised, with the EU criticising business models that “force authors to accept lower or no revenues in exchange for greater visibility”.They also proposed to “reflect on the possibility” of taking action against the “overwhelming amount” of music on streaming platforms.
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