— caught a wave on TikTok, and listenership grew exponentially. Over the course of two weeks, “the record went from doing around 10,000 streams per day to around 1.4 million per day and has sustained since,” says, who manages the 23-year-old artist. “We saw increases across the rest of her catalog as well, which showed new fans were sticking around to learn more about mazie and her music.”
It’s surely not a coincidence that music industry complaints about the money flowing from TikTok are gaining traction as the major labels are negotiating licenses with ByteDance, which is planning to expand its streaming service, Resso, beyond test markets in Brazil, India and Indonesia. Speaking at a recent industry conference in Singapore, Universal Music Group CEOwarned the music business of a value gap “forming fast in the new iterations of short-form video.
Sources say that individual labels and distributors have different deals with ByteDance, which negotiates lump-sum upfront payments to use their recordings on TikTok for a set period of time. In addition, each label and distributor can make its own decision about how to parcel out those payments to artists.
When executives examine TikTok payouts compared with views on platform, the money made seems even more minuscule. “TikTok doesn’t pay out nearly what any other view pays,” says a head of a record company that is distributed by a major. “It’s astronomically lower.”
I mean they use what 10 seconds of a song, so if a song is 3 minutes long, then users are only playing 5% of the song.
No platforms exist, without the humans who make them relevant, the most profitable people should be every user, everyday day, without delay...over company profits...if the company can stay afloat...it can make money. Pay people first and most'
Never used! It came to turn music like a circus!
So you're paying them?
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