Pay Musicians Proper Royalties.

The Issue

Musicians/Artists often have spent a lifetime perfecting their craft, and often work very hard to Write music, play live and record. It just makes sense that the proportion of money earned through streaming is properly shared.

I don't believe we should have to pay more for the services! Which for Spotify is £9.99 in the UK. As it stands right now an artist would have to have around 1875 streams to be able to afford a new set of strings priced around £7.50, as the amount per stream is between £0.00331 and £0.00437. With earnings in the billions for Spotify alone, which was about £6.764.000.000 according to statista.com. Here I am talking about 1 soul artist, if it were say a band, it could be split maybe 5 ways or so.

How about a percentage worked out on the basis of what was earned by the corporation within the financial period, with the number of artists factored in, with averaged plays, and a leeway for the corporation?

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The Issue

Musicians/Artists often have spent a lifetime perfecting their craft, and often work very hard to Write music, play live and record. It just makes sense that the proportion of money earned through streaming is properly shared.

I don't believe we should have to pay more for the services! Which for Spotify is £9.99 in the UK. As it stands right now an artist would have to have around 1875 streams to be able to afford a new set of strings priced around £7.50, as the amount per stream is between £0.00331 and £0.00437. With earnings in the billions for Spotify alone, which was about £6.764.000.000 according to statista.com. Here I am talking about 1 soul artist, if it were say a band, it could be split maybe 5 ways or so.

How about a percentage worked out on the basis of what was earned by the corporation within the financial period, with the number of artists factored in, with averaged plays, and a leeway for the corporation?

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Petition created on 10 December 2020