songwriters

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Time for a new rise to streaming rates, surely?

Ears To The House Team 3 July 2022

Lots of people seemed to be terribly pleased with themselves over the weekend, following Friday’s announcement by the USA’s Copyright Royalty Board that it was standing by its decision to increase headline rates to...

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Another one who can’t see the wood for the trees! Now Blur singer Damon Albarn is attacking co-writers – but mysteriously fails to mention he didn’t write a single song on Gorillaz latest album by himself…

Ears To The House Team 28 January 2022

One controversy in the showbiz world this week appears to be over songwriting. Is it perhaps the scandalous revelation that Universal boss Lucian Grainge was paid more last year than every songwriter in Britain...

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Want to make money out of music? Become an executive! Universal Music Group boss Lucian Grainge is set to rake in £150million this year – and he’s never written a single song…

Ears To The House Team 11 November 2021

Time was if you wanted to make money out of music, you’d need to have at least some musical knowledge and ability to help you get there. Such rules no longer apply – these...

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More songwriters will start driving for Uber if they’re not paid more for their work, warns Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus

Ears To The House Team 10 May 2021

If you’ve ever wondered why so much music in the mainstream charts sounds similar, the fact that most of it was written by one of two men might have something to do with it....

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Songwriters, pop stars and zero sympathy

Ears To The House Team 4 April 2021

So, it appears that a group of songwriters want pop artists to stop taking the credit for things that they didn’t do. It seems they’re fed up of the practice in the music industry...