Fiona Bevan: Last News

DEALSKobalt Neighbouring Rights has signed Burna Boy to a worldwide deal. “My music is global and I have toured the globe”, he says.

82 per cent of musicians earn less than £200 a year from streaming.Yesterday (November 8), songwriters including Nile Rodgers gave evidence to a committee inquiry about the economic side of streaming.Rodgers said that before the Covid-19 pandemic, he hadn’t been concerned with the money he was making from streaming, “because my tour revenue has been so substantial that I could support my entire organisation”.After revealing that he was “completely shocked” once he found out his streaming revenue, Rodgers added: “We don’t even know what a stream is worth,” revealing that “there’s no way you can find out.”Fiona Bevan, a songwriter for One Direction, Lewis Capaldi and more, said she earned just £100 from streaming for a song she co-wrote on

government inquiry into the impact of “the business models” operated by the likes of Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Google Play.Musicians including Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Nadine Shah and Gomez‘ Tom Gray told MPs on the DCMS committee that streaming payments are “threatening the future of music”.Over £1 billion in revenue was generated from 114 billion music streams in the UK last year, with the inquiry noting, however, that “artists can be paid as little as 13% of the income generated”.Tomorrow (December 8), Chic legend Nile Rodgers will address the committee, where he’ll be joined by songwriter Fiona Bevan and jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch.Last week, Shah wrote an article criticising streaming services for