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Deezer is reworking the way it allocates royalties again as SACEM signs up to its ‘artist-centric’ model

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Deezer is reworking the way it allocates royalties again as SACEM signs up to its ‘artist-centric’ model

French collecting society SACEM has signed up to Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ approach to paying royalties, which disadvantages tracks released by artists who fail to meet certain thresholds. That system has only applied to recordings previously, but will now also apply to songs, albeit only in France…

Chris Cooke • 15 Jan 2025

Deezer sees some growth in first quarter of 2024

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Deezer sees some growth in first quarter of 2024

Deezer has published its figures for the first quarter of 2024, which show that its average revenue per user is better than Spotify’s and its partnerships are booming. It still obviously remains one of the smaller players in streaming, but it will nonetheless be happy with the latest stats…

Sam Taylor • 01 May 2024

Spotify France says streaming tax to support artists is "monumental error", may "disinvest" from France

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Spotify France says streaming tax to support artists is "monumental error", may "disinvest" from France

The French government has confirmed a new tax will be applied to music streaming services from next year to fund the Centre National De La Musique - a move strongly opposed by Spotify and the other digital music companies…

Chris Cooke • 15 Dec 2023

Warner Music confirms it is participating in Deezer’s “artist-centric” pilot

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Warner Music confirms it is participating in Deezer’s “artist-centric” pilot

Warner Music has confirmed it is “delighted” to be participating in the pilot of Deezer’s artist-centric model, which changes the way the streaming service allocates revenue to tracks each month…

Chris Cooke • 14 Nov 2023

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Sony Music has a new logo, Deezer and SiriusXM have a brandwank

Sony Music, Deezer and SiriusXM have all unveiled new logos. Sony’s delves into its brand heritage, Deezer’s aims to “recharge people's emotional connection to the brand”, and SiriusXM’s “gives a nod to the service’s consumer value proposition”…

Andy Malt & Sam Taylor • 09 Nov 2023

Setlist Podcast: Spotify plots changes to the way it pays out royalties

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Setlist Podcast: Spotify plots changes to the way it pays out royalties

Spotify's plans to change the way it allocates revenues to individual tracks and catalogues each month, and the confirmation that digital is now the biggest driver of revenue for the song rights collecting societies…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 27 Oct 2023

Deezer and Sacem evaluating artist-centric model for songwriters

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Deezer and Sacem evaluating artist-centric model for songwriters

Deezer and French collecting society Sacem have announced a new partnership to assess the viability of switching to an “artist-centric” model for distributing song royalties - similar to what the streaming service is already piloting on the recordings side…

Andy Malt • 25 Oct 2023

French indie Wagram Music signs up to Deezer's "artist centric" approach

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French indie Wagram Music signs up to Deezer's "artist centric" approach

French independent label Wagram Music has signed up to participate in the pilot of Deezer’s new “artist-centric” model, despite some in the indie community criticising the streaming firm’s proposed new approach…

Chris Cooke • 03 Oct 2023

Deezer instigates second price rise in key European markets

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Deezer instigates second price rise in key European markets

Deezer has instigated another price increase in some key European markets, so that a €10.99 subscription becomes €11.99…

Chris Cooke • 22 Sep 2023

Setlist Podcast: The call for a UK ticket touting ban

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Setlist • 17 min read

Setlist Podcast: The call for a UK ticket touting ban

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke discuss the FanFair Alliance's call for a ban on ticket touring in the UK and criticism of Deezer’s new proposals for ‘artist-centric’ royalty payments…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 18 Sep 2023

IMPALA comments on Deezer's "artist-centric" model

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IMPALA comments on Deezer's "artist-centric" model

IMPALA has commented on Deezer’s new “artist-centric” model for allocating streaming royalties, expressing concern that it has been developed "in a vacuum" with only Universal Music being consulted…

Chris Cooke • 15 Sep 2023

Believe criticises ‘reverse Robin Hood’ elements of Deezer's new artist-centric model for payments

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Believe criticises ‘reverse Robin Hood’ elements of Deezer's new artist-centric model for payments

Believe has responded to Deezer’s plan to change the way it shares its revenues each month, welcoming some elements of that plan, but criticising the decision to direct more money to ‘professional artists’…

Chris Cooke • 12 Sep 2023