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Episode 2153
Apple Music is known as the app that makes the music that comes on your phone. Some of us might use other apps, of course—but Apple Music is in the top five. If you’re familiar with any of the major streaming platforms, you might be aware that there are cover versions of lots of popular songs. How does this work in the business sense? Can Linda, our listener and a musician, make money from her versions? What kind of permission do you need, and how are royalties handled?“For every popular music artist with millions of streams on Apple Music or Spotify, there are a bunch of cover artists who upload their own versions of the songs. These versions don't usually get millions of streams, but some of them do very well with tens or hundreds of thousands of streams. How much money are these cover artists making, and can anyone upload their own versions of other people's songs? I thought there'd be copyright issues, but it looks like a lot of people have been doing it for a long time.”Listen to today's episode to learn more... Yours in the revolution,
