Apple, Spotify, More Streaming Services Pay $424 Million in Unmatched Royalties for Songwriters and Publishers

On Wednesday, the Mechanical Licensing Collective announced it had received $424.38 million in unmatched royalties from Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Spotify among other streaming services. Variety reports that these streaming services paid the accrued historical unmatched royalties, often called “black box money,” to the MLC in order to get these royalties to copyright holders, songwriters, and publishers who have applied to be MLC members.

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Drake Breaks Apple Music & Spotify Streaming Records With ‘More Life’ Release

Drake’s More Life — which is heading for a big debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week — is off to a record-breaking start at Apple Music and Spotify.

Birdman and Apple Music Sign Deal for Documentary About Cash Money

Apple Music and Birdman have reportedly inked a deal for a documentary about Cash Money Records, according to a report fromBillboard. “Welcome to the fam [Birdman],” wrote Larry Jackson, Apple Music’s head of content, on Instagram. “Tough negotiator. Much respeck.” Although original reports indicated that the entire label would be entering into some type of exclusive streaming deal with Apple Music, several sources confirmed to Billboard that the “power move” was simply a one-off documentary about Birdman and Cash Money.

Drake, Rihanna & Kanye West Among Most Streamed Artists Of 2016

Drake, Rihanna and Kanye West are reportedly the top three most-streamed artists of 2016 so far, according to HITS Daily Double. The publication reveals that Drake has earned 1.44 billion streams, Rihanna – 795 million, and Kanye – 753 million. After Kanye isJustin Bieber with 658M and Beyonce with 592M on all streaming services like Apple Music, TIDAL and Spotify. Rounding out the top ten are Future, G-Eazy, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem.

Dr Dre to Release First Album in Over 15 Years

“It’s going to be my grand finale.”

Apple Music’s a Disappointment, But Not Because It’s Bad

By all accounts, Apple Music is a totally serviceable streaming music service. But it’s 2015 for Pete’s sake. Give me more than the same old service everybody’s been offering for years.

Indie Artists Will Get Just 58% In Streaming Royalties From Apple Music

While Apple basks in the publicity it stirred up at WWDC 2015 earlier this week, a recent document leak shows that the company’s new music service will kick back just 58% of subscription revenues to indie artists who use the platform.

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