CJ SO COOL’S YouTube channel consists of pranks, videos with his children, and content with his girlfriend, Alexis Lohmier. He also used to post content with his ex-girlfriend, Royalty Johnson. 2 CJ So Cool and […]
Photo Credit: Downtown Music Less than two months after backing music networking platform Vampr, Downtown Music Holdings has officially acquired four-year-old royalty processor Curve Royalty Systems. New York City-headquartered Downtown unveiled its buyout of London-based […]
Washington, D.C.’s James Madison Memorial Building, which houses the U.S. Copyright Office. After increasing webcasting royalty rates for the 2021-2025 period, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has officially announced a cost-of-living adjustment for 2023 – […]
One of 3LAU‘s collaborators has served the artist a lawsuit, claiming she has been under-compensated based on the terms of their agreement. 3LAU has been one of the music industry’s most steadfast purveyors of NFT […]
Continue Reading Below Now that all of America was aware of the tasty bugs, the lobster’s slow claw to the top of the menu started in earnest, around the 1880s. Train travel was exploding, and […]
No matter what you think about his behavior and politics, Kanye West is a musical machine. As of this writing, he’s sold more than 160 million albums, scored 69 Top 40 and 20 Top 10 […]
Photo Credit: BSC Photography / CC by 2.0 BMI announces record-breaking revenue and royalty distributions with an all-time high of $1.471 billion to songwriters, composers, and publishers — $136 million more than last year. BMI […]
Trolley leadership team, from left, Jordan Cohen (VP Sales), Sasha Kossovsky (VP Engineering, Vincent Guérin (VP Marketing), Tim Nixon (CEO & Founder), and Natalie Loop (VP People & Culture). Not pictured: Andreas Farina Vaz, Annalisa […]
A U.S. congresswoman is drafting legislation that would compel Spotify and others to pay “a new streaming royalty…directly to artists.” This latest attempt to reform the way that Spotify and competing streaming services pay royalties […]
Photo Credit: SoundCloud About three months after celebrating the anniversary of its fan-powered royalty model, SoundCloud has officially inked a global licensing deal with Warner Music Group. Under the pact, WMG will become the first […]
Washington, D.C.’s James Madison Memorial Building, which houses the U.S. Copyright Office. American songwriters and publishers scored a hard-fought mechanical royalty rate increase from streaming music platforms in a late-breaking decision on Friday (July 1st). […]
Sound the trumpets and drum up some well-deserved fanfare: Kam Williams and Leroy Garrett have officially announced the birth of their first child. And with a name like Kingston Lee, the boy’s bound to be […]
Get your crown ready: On June 5, at the MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED, Bethenny Frankel will make her status official by receiving the Realty Royalty Award. The Real Housewives of New York star, […]
Major label and publishing conglomerates Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group, as well as other publishers represented by the NMPA, have tentatively agreed to increase mechanical royalty rates on physical products […]
Washington, D.C.’s James Madison Memorial Building, which houses the U.S. Copyright Office. Late last month, the three-judge Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) rejected a proposed mechanical-rate freeze for physical formats (including vinyl and CDs) and permanent […]