Re:Spotify sides with Joe Rogan, removes Neil Young’s music
by pseudalopex on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:53AM
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He sold 50% of his music rights for $150 million last year. And he was rich already. His investments should make much more than streaming. He just signed a deal with SiriusXM too.[1] I think he'll be all right.
[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/siriusxm-...
Re:Spotify sides with Joe Rogan, removes Neil Young’s music
by snowwrestler on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:31PM
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Deals like this are happening because there is so little revenue from streaming.
This is why you hear Led Zeppelin and Dylan songs in car ads now. With little revenue from recording sales or streaming, artists are leaning more on other revenue like sync licenses and co-marketing deals. If you read carefully, the Sirius deal is not just access to Young’s back catalog, it is using his name to market Sirius. He gets paid for that on top of the music itself.
Re:Spotify sides with Joe Rogan, removes Neil Young’s music
by rpd9803 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:51PM
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LOL
Do you really think musicians make most of the money they make from streaming? Dude could have 1 concert a year and pull in more than his streaming would in a decade. Not to mention merch, commercial licensing.. etc..
LOL
Maybe, but
> 60% of Young's streaming revenue comes from Spotify meaning the move is likely to cost him and his record label, Warner Bros[1]
So what "little" they paid him was still the majority of what he was making. And I think it will be hard for someone from his genre (1960's/70's) to make a come back. Most people under 35ish-40 have never heard of him and likely won't listen due to the genre.
[1] https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/01/27/spotify-grants-n...