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Setlist: The ten things people get wrong about streaming – Part One

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 11 May 2020

In a deviation from the normal format, this week CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke examine the debate around the fairness of streaming royalties for artists and songwriters, which has been growing during the COVID-19 shutdown. Over the next two episodes, we’ll be discussing the ten things people often get wrong about streaming, and what they need to know in order to win the argument. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

SECTION TIMES
01: There are no per-stream rates (00:09:37)
02: A million streams isn’t as much as it sounds (00:18:06)
03: It is almost certainly time to review subscription prices – though probably not in the middle of a global pandemic (00:21:09)
04: Re-slicing the pie so songwriters get more is complicated (00:33:37)
05: The US is different, because it’s always different (00:37:17)

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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
• IFPI confirms recorded music market grew 8.2% in 2019

ALSO MENTIONED
• Tom Gray, Gomez (Twitter thread)
• Tim Burgess, The Charlatans (Twitter thread)
• Spotify should pay musicians more? Let’s talk more about how (Stuart Dredge – Music Ally)
• BrokenRecord? Using the COVID-19 crisis to re-evaluate streaming shares (Annabella Coldrick, MMF – Medium)
• CMU’s Lockdown Webinars
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