There are way too many factors and bumps on the road to artist payment to look at everything in black and white.Īre you not a journalist? Dig a little. See, this is problematic, and far too many people ARE simply looking at the forest. I’d be really interested to see what this songwriter got paid by BMI for an estimated 225k listeners of this song on FM radio. This is a BMI statement – NOT a Rhapsody or Spotify statement – to an individual songwriter, that has relatively low streaming numbers with these services. I mean, ANYONE who read the headline, clearly announcing a revelation as to what “Rhapsody and Spotify pay,” only to see a BMI statement, should INSTANTLY realize the headline is a flat-out lie.Īnd if ANYONE who claims to be a songwriter commenting in here doesn’t understand that BMI (and ALL of the Performing Rights Organizations) keep around 10-12% of the payments they receive to cover “administrative expenses” and then go on to “calculate” what they will ultimately pay out to their affiliated songwriters through very vague formulas that favor huge artists at the expense of middle and lower echelon artists, they should go and do their homework before ever posting in here, again. It really is disheartening to see Paul try and gin up the propaganda/misinformation machine here, time and time again. Wouldn’t be surprised if BMI paid different songwriters differently for the exact same service. Would be interested to see multiple BMI songwriters’ statements to see if their streams equal the same per play rates.
BMI and ASCAP notoriously have incredibly opaque accounting practices. We don’t know how much they pay BMI (or ASCAP for that matter) and why BMI chose to pay out this amount. It’s actually “What BMI pays songwriters from Rhapsody and Spotify.” Rhapsody and Spotify aren’t paying songwriters directly. Musician Who Understands February 25, 2015
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