Music Royalties - Web Gangsta - Web Watch https://thewebgangsta.com Web Gangsta - Web Watch takes on pop culture, the web, and other interesting things ...since 1994. Fri, 18 Apr 2014 02:39:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.5 Another sign that streaming music royalty payments stink https://thewebgangsta.com/2014/02/another-sign-that-streaming-music-royalty-payments-stink/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=another-sign-that-streaming-music-royalty-payments-stink Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:57 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=7352 It almost doesn’t pay to be a musician these days. We’ll take that back and rephrase:  it LITERALLY doesn’t pay to be a musician these days.  And yes, we are using the word “literally” correctly in that sentence.. With more and more businesses deciding to hop onto the STREAMING MUSIC bandwagon, one would think that […]

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]]> Who are the Most Sampled Recording Artists of All Time? https://thewebgangsta.com/2014/02/who-are-the-most-sampled-recording-artists-of-all-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-are-the-most-sampled-recording-artists-of-all-time Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:16 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=7333 It’s been said that there will reach a point in time where every single piece of recorded music has been written.  There are only so many combinations of notes on a musical scale that can be made. So that’s where the ability to make variations on a theme come into play.  Combining two different songs […]

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]]> How much money does Pandora pay artists for music streaming? https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/06/how-much-money-does-pandora-pay-artists-for-music-streaming/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-much-money-does-pandora-pay-artists-for-music-streaming Sat, 29 Jun 2013 23:00:01 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6453 Whether you get your music listening fix from your own MP3’s stored on your cellphone/tablet/desktop, from the local AM/FM radio station, or a streaming service like PANDORA, SPOTIFY, or others — you know that nothing is ever free. Whether it be listening to advertising, viewing popups, or purchasing the audio files from your favorite vendor […]

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]]> Top Paid Musicians of 2012 (here’s a hint: it’s not all from Youtube or iTunes) https://thewebgangsta.com/2012/12/top-paid-musicians-of-2012-heres-a-hint-its-not-all-from-youtube-or-itunes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-paid-musicians-of-2012-heres-a-hint-its-not-all-from-youtube-or-itunes Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:01 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=5657 It’s time once again to take a look at HOW MUCH MONEY MUSICIANS MAKE each year. Web Watch knows what you’re thinking — with iTunes, the Amazon Music Store, Google Play and other services, let alone the money that comes in from Youtube from display advertising showing with all their posted music videos — that […]

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]]> How much does Pandora pay musicians? https://thewebgangsta.com/2012/11/how-much-does-pandora-pay-musicians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-much-does-pandora-pay-musicians Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:43 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=5624 Web Watch has covered the COMPLICATED WORLD OF MUSIC ROYALTY PAYMENT CALCULATIONS in the past, showed you how to calculate MUSIC ROYALTY PAYOUTS with a MUSIC ROYALTY CALCULATOR, and even told you HOW MUCH MONEY iTUNES PAYS ARTISTS. And yet, the question keeps coming up over and over from various artists: HOW MUCH MONEY CAN […]

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]]> Today’s kids don’t like to pay for music. Here’s what’s wrong with that https://thewebgangsta.com/2012/06/todays-kids-dont-like-to-pay-for-music-heres-whats-wrong-with-that/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=todays-kids-dont-like-to-pay-for-music-heres-whats-wrong-with-that Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:00:12 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=5104 By now you’ve probably heard about that NPR intern who claims to have over 11,000 songs in her music library, but only paid for 15 CDs in her life. Remember CRACKER?  What a great opportunity for someone in the music industry to write an open letter to that intern, right? That’s exactly what DAVID LOWERY […]

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]]> The secret to having a hit record is all about “Treating the radio guys nice.” https://thewebgangsta.com/2011/07/the-secret-to-a-having-a-hit-record-is-all-about-treating-the-radio-guys-nice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-secret-to-a-having-a-hit-record-is-all-about-treating-the-radio-guys-nice Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:00:26 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=4040 Buy this TMBG album for the song “HEY MR DJ, I THOUGHT YOU SAID WE HAD A DEAL” Rock band THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS wrote a song all about what it allegedly took to get a song on the radio, aptly entitled Hey Mr DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal.  In it, the […]

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]]> You can’t be a successful musician until you’ve gone bankrupt at least once https://thewebgangsta.com/2011/04/you-cant-be-a-successful-musician-until-youve-gone-bankrupt-at-least-once/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-cant-be-a-successful-musician-until-youve-gone-bankrupt-at-least-once Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=3756 The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop There are lots of financial obligations when you’re a solo musician or in a band. You have to worry about getting gigs, writing music, obtaining copyright or other legal paperwork.  Then there’s the infighting, splitting appearance fees, and paying for samples in your hit song that borrowed […]

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