Music Distribution Digital vs Physical Who Own The

Music Distribution Digital vs Physical

Who Own The Beatles Music?

Michael Jackson

How? In the 1970’s Paul Mc. Cartney told Michael Jackson about the money that could be made from buying the publishing rights of music Michael Jackson told Paul Mc. Cartney that he was going to buy the music of the Beatles. Mc. Cartney thought it was a joke… it wasn’t In 1984, Jackson bought the publishing company that owned the Beatles music (ATV) for 47. 5 Million Dollars

Why Buy Music? While artists are entitled to pay for each cd sold and when their music is played online or on the radio, the publishers make the majority of the money The sale on a general CD would generally be broken down as follows: Artist: 6. 6% Producer: 2. 2% Song Writer: 4. 5% Distributer: 22% Manufacturer: 5% Retailer: 30% Record Label: 30%

Digital Music: The ITunes Method The first legal major challenge to physical music sales was Itunes Once again the record labels made the majority of the money as shown in the following breakdown (This example uses a single song sold at $1. 29) 70 -80 Cents goes to the record label 40 Cents goes to Apple 10 -20 Cents goes to Artist The label is required by law to pay songwriter 9. 1 cents as a mechanical royalty

Digital Music: Spotify and the Age of Streaming Music As with every other method of music sales, it is the record label who makes the majority of sales On average, each time an artists song is streamed they make $0. 008 In the case when the artist is owned by a record label, the make around 9 times more