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Deezer told me about this practice a few years ago. I disagree with the writer’s statement that the only ones who lose out are “older out of touch-artists who think music should always be something meaningful and “culturally important” #Fixstreaming musicbusinessworldwide.com/an-mbw-reader-…
It is, however, true that I have a few musician friends who reverted to making this kind of “chill” music when they had kids - and discovered they make more from that than they did from streams of their artist albums…
And if they make more and shorter tracks, they can make even more, as they make the same from a one-minute chill track than a five-minute song they spent weeks on. This all dilutes the royalty pool and drives down rates. #FixStreaming #PaySongwriters
A rare Friday in Westminster to support the brilliant @KevinBrennanMP Bill to #FixStreaming
Here's why it's important 👇
Here's why it's important 👇
Musicians’ livelihoods have been shattered over the last year, with the inability to perform live at gigs, concerts, festivals, shows and in the recording studio.
This has massively increased the importance of streaming as a way of musicians earning a living.
This has massively increased the importance of streaming as a way of musicians earning a living.
Streaming has created huge opportunities for musicians.
But a gap in the law means that most streaming income ends up in the pockets of record labels, streaming platforms, and digital giants rather than in the hands of the musicians.
But a gap in the law means that most streaming income ends up in the pockets of record labels, streaming platforms, and digital giants rather than in the hands of the musicians.
This is MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl taking over @WeAreTheMU for live commentary and analysis on the #BrennanBill debate starting shortly. #FixStreaming #BrokenRecord
Watch live on BBC Parliament or ParliamentLive.TV at parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/d9…
Thanks to cross-party MPs who have expressed support for the #BrennanBill and understand why we must #FixStreaming and get a fairer deal for musicians & music creators. We held an event in the House of Commons last night to promote the Bill which was very well attended.- NP
Today @KevinBrennanMP, MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl & @EstherMcVey1 delivered a letter to the Prime Minister asking him to support the #BrennanBill.
The Bill aims to #FixStreaming and make the UK the best place in the world to be a musician or music creator…
The Bill aims to #FixStreaming and make the UK the best place in the world to be a musician or music creator…
Support for the #BrennanBill is growing and bridges party divides, with MPs on all sides of Parliament expressing their approval.
Many joined us at a photocall in support of the Bill to #FixStreaming. Find out if your MP was one of them 👇
musiciansunion.org.uk/news/mps-join-…
Many joined us at a photocall in support of the Bill to #FixStreaming. Find out if your MP was one of them 👇
musiciansunion.org.uk/news/mps-join-…
The #BrennanBill introduces a right to equitable remuneration for performers. This would mean a guaranteed income stream for all musicians whose performances appear on streamed tracks. It's a key ask of the #FixStreaming campaign...
Sometimes people look at the challenges artists, songwriters, and indie labels face in trying to earn sustainable revenues from recorded music and conclude "copyright is broken." Let's unpack that with a quick THREAD. #FixStreaming 1/?
"Copyright is broken" is an attractive bumper sticker; it expresses legitimate frustrations that might be felt by creators, audiences, etc. But it doesn't do much to advance understanding of the situation we're all in. 2/
To begin with, it's binary. It imagines copyright (a system that has evolved over hundreds of years that encompasses laws, abstract concepts, real-world practices, institutions) as something that can either be broken or unbroken. 3/
Today the @CommonsDCMS Committee publishes its report into the economics of music streaming. Here's a thread of the report's findings and recommendations. (1/25) #BrokenRecord #FixStreaming
Streaming has helped save the music industry following two decades of digital piracy but it is clear that what has been saved does not work for everyone. Issues created by streaming reflect fundamental problems within the recorded music industry. Streaming needs a reset. (2/25)
We urge Universal and Warner to look again at the issue of unrecouped balances with a view to enabling more of their legacy artists to receive payments when their music is streamed. (3/25)
Earlier this year, songwriters, composers and performers started sharing how little they got from streaming – while big music companies raked in billions #BrokenRecord...
#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
.@IvorsAcademy and the Musicians’ Union started campaigning for a Government review - and over 17,000 of you backed the call...
#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
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#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
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Press picked it up, including @pitchfork, @WiredUK and @bbc5live. They’re still going - catch up with @MrTomGray and MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl speaking to @Ed_Miliband and @GeoffLloyd on @CheerfulPodcast...
#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
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#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
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Miss @fionabevan, @sowetokinch and legend @nilerodgers giving evidence at the @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreamingInquiry today?
Check out the highlights & analysis from MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl 👇
Check out the highlights & analysis from MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl 👇
It's time to #FixStreaming and #KeepMusicAlive!
Catch up with part two of today's @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreamingInquiry highlights & analysis from MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl 👇
Catch up with part two of today's @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreamingInquiry highlights & analysis from MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl 👇
“It just needs some parity and fairness in the system"
Catch up with what @MrTomGray, @Guy_Garvey, @nadineshah and @EOBOfficial had to say in the first @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreaingInquiry session
👉 musiciansunion.org.uk/all-news-and-f…
#BrokenRecord #FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
Catch up with what @MrTomGray, @Guy_Garvey, @nadineshah and @EOBOfficial had to say in the first @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreaingInquiry session
👉 musiciansunion.org.uk/all-news-and-f…
#BrokenRecord #FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
Really great that the #MusicStreamingInquiry is hearing how fair remuneration for musicians from streaming could work in practice - NP
A final question in the first session on the impact of Brexit on music. Maria Forte says "Brexit is bad for musicians if there's no deal and if there's a deal then who knows". @kwamekwaten agrees: "as there is currently no deal I can only see it being bad". #WorkingintheEU
Second oral evidence session in #MusicStreamingInquiry about to begin featuring @nilerodgers @fionabevan and @sowetokinch #FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
This is MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl! I am taking over @WeAreTheMU for the next few hours for a @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreamingInquiry tweetalong. Sessions start at 10am. This is why it matters: musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020… #FixStreaming
Catch up with some of the highlights from the first #MusicStreamingInquiry sessions looking at creators’ experiences musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020… as well as Equitable Remuneration & transparency musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020… #FixStreaming - NP
Today we will hear from @nilerodgers @sowetokinch & @fionabevan about why the song should receive more than 10-15% of streaming revenue and how the economics of music streaming aren't working for many musicians. We can #fixstreaming! - NP
10 minutes to go until the next #AskTheMU! Got a question about streaming, royalties, or the campaign to #FixStreaming and keep music alive? Ask now #AskTheMU
Hi everyone, this is Naomi Pohl from @WeAreTheMU and Graham Davies from @IvorsAcademy. We’ll be answering your questions about streaming over the next 30 minutes or so. Do you have a question about streaming, royalties or our #FixStreaming campaign? Ask us #AskTheMU
“If the song gets more money will the performers get less?” – anon #AskTheMU
“Ek’s saying that musicians need to look at themselves less as artists and more as content creators. We have no muse to serve but the marketplace, and without adhering to the rapid 💓 rate that is Spotify’s demand for new food for their algorithm, our careers are bound to perish”
Let’s flip Spotify’s words:
“some streaming services that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can't a (re)launch new groundbreaking music platform once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.” @eldsjal
“some streaming services that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can't a (re)launch new groundbreaking music platform once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.” @eldsjal
"The streaming services today that are making it, realise that it's about creating a continuous engagement with their fans.
It is about putting the work in, about the storytelling around the service, and about keeping a continuous dialogue with your fans"
👀 @Spotify 🤷♂️
It is about putting the work in, about the storytelling around the service, and about keeping a continuous dialogue with your fans"
👀 @Spotify 🤷♂️
OH MY GOD. The deals between the majors and the streaming services.
The thread many of you requested. It gets a bit sticky, tricky and puzzling, but that’s the point.
The thread many of you requested. It gets a bit sticky, tricky and puzzling, but that’s the point.
The themes of this story: a lack of transparency and accountability for artists and a system that disdains the relationship between artists and their fans.
What makes telling this so hard is these deals are hidden behind NDAs for “reasons of commercial confidentiality”.
What makes telling this so hard is these deals are hidden behind NDAs for “reasons of commercial confidentiality”.
You won’t be surprised that I think this is bullshit. It is a serious flaw of the present system that the scrap for minor advantage between labels is paramount. Forget fair remuneration or helping artists understand their audiences…. Priorities you say.
.@CommonsDCMS evidence session on the impact of COVID-19 on theatre and live music is on now! Starting with evidence from @uk_theatre. Find out more and watch live > musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020…
.@uk_theatre has three asks of Government:
• the workforce, extending support and closing gaps in SEISS
• theatre recovery, including the thousands of small companies that make up the sector, and
• safeguarding the industry for the future
• the workforce, extending support and closing gaps in SEISS
• theatre recovery, including the thousands of small companies that make up the sector, and
• safeguarding the industry for the future
.@julianpbird notes that donations for streams of theatre productions so far is "remarkably low", making creating a show and putting it on for the sole purpose of being filmed is too expensive without additional support in the long term #SupportOurTheatres
Today at 1pm! Join @LadyVMusic plus special guests @crispinhunt, @ShaoDowMusic and @naomipohl for Music & Coffee. Looking at why we need to #FixStreaming and #KeepMusicAlive. Register for your free place > ivorsacademy.com/event/music-co… @IvorsAcademy
"I like music. It's what I do, it's my passion, it's my life... and I'm painfully aware that my income is not entirely sustainable" - @ShaoDowMusic shares how he came to the #fixstreaming debate. Join us for Music & Coffee until 2pm > ivorsacademy.com/event/music-co… #KeepMusicAlive
"I got energised by the idea that there weren't enough people apart from the Musicians' Union fighting our corner... So I joined the Ivors" - @crispinhunt talks about the need for a watershed moment in music and for people to get involved #FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
