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It's brutal out here: Olivia Rodrigo and how the music business makes songwriters fight over credits
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Music Is a Business Structure
In the united states, artists don't get paid when their songs are played in the radio. Yet in streaming it works totally different. More than 80 % of the royalty payouts go to the master recording,. whereas the publishing royalties are usually hovering around like 12, 13%. Fundamentally, that's fastining to me, that technology that distributes the music is what determines the right structure. And that's all just made up. It is entirely these are business structures, and they have huge consequences for how music is made, who's getting paid, even how songs are structured and how they sound. Ithink it helps explain a lot of things. What's going on there. Olive
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