It just affects those who are involved in the master recording copyright.įor the uninitiated, there are two copyrights associated with every song released: the underlying musical work (often also called the “composition” or “song”) copyright, which protects the lyrics and melodies written by songwriters, and the master recording (also called the “sound recording”) copyright, which protects the artists’ one specific recording of that musical work. Many also believe this new rule could provide alleviate the issue of the royalty pool being divided among the exponentially-growing number of songs on Spotify’s platform, which likely dilutes the amount of money flowing to career artists.īut this change to Spotify’s royalty model does not affect songwriters and publishers payments at all, a source close to the company confirmed to Billboard. Others supported the plan, citing the paltry sums an artist would be making for under 1,000 annual streams anyway (which amounts to about five cents). Nevertheless, this has sparked debate around the music community, with some questioning the ethics of not paying artists for whatever streams they garnered simply because they were not popular enough.

Under this new scheme, more than two-thirds of the tracks uploaded to that platform will not be eligible to receive royalties - but that change, notably, will only impact about 0.5% of the royalty pool. The remaining two “Off-Season” tracks appear at #12 and #13, respectively.Most Tracks on Spotify Won't Earn a Royalty Under New SchemeĪs Billboard reported last month, Spotify is planning to implement three changes to its royalty model early next year that would affect the lowest-streaming acts, non-music noise tracks and distributors and labels committing fraud. Nicki Minaj’s “Seeing Green (featuring Drake & Lil Wayne)” appears at #11 on both Apple Music charts, marking the only song to interrupt the J.Cole album’s streak. s o u t h” tracks into separate entries, the song appears at #1 on both listings. As the Apple platform did not split the “9 5. “The Off-Season” additionally connected on Apple Music, with tracks occupying the entire Top 10 on the US and Global Apple Music Charts. “a m a r i” takes #1 on the present iteration of the global chart (6,595,971), and “m y. Instead, the split versions appear at #18 and #19.

With both versions combined, the song generated over 7 million global opening day streams on Spotify. c l o c k” would have been bumped out of the Top 10), but it would have meant a different number one. s o u t h” issue would not have affected that number (as “p u n c h i n’. The album also fared well on a worldwide basis, with seven tracks appearing in the Top 10 on Spotify’s daily Global chart. The remaining consecutively occupy the next spots on the chart.

m i l ‘ (with Bas)” (#5) complete the Top 5. d e v i l (with Lil Baby)” (#3), “a p p l y i n g. l i f e (with 21 Savage & Morray)” (#2), “p r i d e. s o u t h” versions appear at #9 and #13, respectively. As it currently stands, “a m a r i” earns that distinction with 4,106,802 streams. If not for the error, that song would have been #1 on the US Spotify chart with 4,545,344 opening day American streams. south” were oddly split into separate chart entries. The album actually only includes twelve tracks, but the explicit and clean versions of “9 5. Tracks from the album claim the entire Top 13 on the US Spotify chart for Friday, May 14. Cole’s “The Off-Season” tracks posted massive opening day numbers on Spotify. In the polar opposite of a surprising situation, J.

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