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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 02 2019, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
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Instagram helps top artists boost earnings

The money that artists receive when their tracks get played has just hit a record high.

In 2018 £746 million was paid out - a rise of 4% on 2017.

PRS for music, which collects the royalties for artists, counted songs used on Facebook and Instagram Stories for the first time.

But according to singer-songwriter Ruth-Anne Cunningham, "a lot of songwriters are making less than minimum wage".

Ruth-Anne, who's worked with Avicii, JoJo and John Legend, says "it's great everything is starting to get monetised" but adds, "unless you have a top 40 radio hit you don't make a substantial income".

The boss of PRS says the rise of streaming has made it harder for them to monitor what's being played - and agrees that those trying to earn a living from music are losing out.

"The very successful people are doing extremely well," Robert Ashcroft tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

"The challenge is, if you're trying to make a living and you're not a performer it's getting more difficult."

Ruth-Anne says that despite performing as well as writing, that's something she's got experience of: "I've had that where I've had massive hits and made money, but then had to be a vocal coach too.

"Back in the day you could make money from being on an album, now people see streams and people see 10 million and think that's a lot - but a songwriter might make £400 from that."


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday May 03 2019, @01:50AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 03 2019, @01:50AM (#838242) Journal

    Better get used to it in the post-capitalistic feudalism (aka jig-economy).

    Funny how superficially pro-labor regulations screw the pooch, isn't it? You can't force employers to pay you more than you are worth. And there's not much point to things like reduced work weeks, if you have to work multiple jobs as a result.

    The gig economy is just another way to route around the damage. You don't want any sort of feudalism? Then make employees worth hiring.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday May 03 2019, @02:20AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 03 2019, @02:20AM (#838253) Journal

    The gig economy is just another way to route around the damage. You don't want any sort of feudalism? Then make employees worth hiring.

    Funny how a human can be in multiple roles ar the same time. I don't know, like, say... costumer and employee.
    Which means that, if the employees don't get enough to pay for your product, you aren't gonna get buyers for whatever you are selling.

    Like, if the 99% get to have 1% of the wealth, the rest of 1%-ers (with the rest of 99%) shouldn't be able to extract more wealth than 1%.
    Maybe... except for the case in which the 1%-ers want now also the wealth of future?
    Which will make the society to slide beyond the feudalism back into the early slavery (meh, 'indentured servant for life', 'slave', you say potato, I say potahto)

    Hang on... I have a vague sensation of dejavu, let me look around; what if we are approaching the moment of "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" and we don't know yet, 'cause we didn't look?

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:26PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:26PM (#839267) Journal

      Funny how a human can be in multiple roles ar the same time.

      And? Remember my point about multiple jobs? It's easier to have a few roles that one needs to cover rather than many conflicting roles.

      I don't know, like, say... costumer and employee. Which means that, if the employees don't get enough to pay for your product, you aren't gonna get buyers for whatever you are selling.

      Being unemployed is getting even less to pay for your product. Employers have those multiple roles too. If they can't get a supply of affordable employees, then they can't hire.

      Like, if the 99% get to have 1% of the wealth, the rest of 1%-ers (with the rest of 99%) shouldn't be able to extract more wealth than 1%.

      What percent even cares to do the work to get that wealth? It's pointless to make that argument when most people, that is a majority, aren't even interested.