Licensing

Report: SoundExchange Doled Out $292 Million In Royalties In 2011(0)

January 18, 2012

SoundExchange, a non-profit performance rights group that collects royalties from various hosts for streaming sound recordings, reported last quarter as their most successful yet. During the fourth quarter of 2011, more than 18,000 payments by satellite radio, Internet radio, and cable television music channels equaled out to a distribution of $89.5 million. As a record-breaking [...]

Report: SoundExchange Doled Out $292 Million In Royalties In 2011

Getting Your Music Licensed: A Q&A with Sarah Gavigan

Sarah Gavigan is a music licensing consultant who has placed thousands of indie and unsigned artists to television commercials over the course of her 20-year career. She has also worked as a talent agent, and taught music licensing at UCLA. Gavigan currently leads interactive music licensing workshops through her online educational community GetYourMusicLicensed.com. We caught [...]

Trent Reznor Endorses TuneCore’s New Songwriter Service

TuneCore, the online music distributor for artists like Beck, Bjork, Aretha Franklin and Jay-Z is launching its Songwriter Publishing Administrative Service today. The new service will be an opportunity for writers to issue licenses, protect copyrights and songs, collect money and register their copyrights around the globe. CEO Jeff Price proudly remarks that “no longer [...]

Digital-Only Classical Label Takes On Rock And Roll

X5 compilations have topped the iTunes classical music charts. Now they’re taking on Sun Records catalog. X5 Music Group is a Stockholm-based music startup that is helping to rethink the way labels package and release albums digitally. X5 licenses classical music catalogs and creates attractively-priced digital albums that appeal to a younger demographic. X5′s business [...]