|
|
Post by MikeMusic on Dec 8, 2020 10:35:29 GMT
Dylan the latest to sell his songs to United Artists, for millions. Bob Dylan sells his entire songwriting catalog to Universal"Dylan, 79, is cashing in on the boom in music rights. The value of songs and recordings has skyrocketed in recent years thanks to streaming, which has fueled a five-year expansion for the music industry after a deep slump. " He's one of a few I've heard about. With streaming paying next to nothing so far as I know what have the purchasers got to gain ? Do they know something we don't ? |
|
|
|
Post by jandl100 on Dec 8, 2020 10:50:38 GMT
Yes, I agree, it seems very strange and contradictory.
Someone is making a £bundle at everyone else's expense.
|
|
|
|
Post by MikeMusic on Dec 8, 2020 10:56:05 GMT
The one thing that comes to mind...
A legal case is in the offing to extract vast amounts of cash from streaming or Spotty and others are sued out of existence.
|
|
|
|
Post by MartinT on Dec 8, 2020 13:00:42 GMT
I keep hearing that it's the sales crews at Spotify etc. who are creaming the profits. The companies themselves seem to be barely above water. Change of model required: get rid of the overpaid salesmen and increase the monthly premiums a little. Keep the artists in work.
|
|
|
|
Post by Slinger on Dec 8, 2020 14:40:20 GMT
If you own Bob Dylan's catalogue you can license "Just Like A Woman," to the next huge-budget rom-com, and "Shelter From The Storm," and "Desolation Row," to the next post-apocalyptic blockbusters. "If Not For You," can be featured on TV ads selling men's deodorant, and, well, he wrote a lot of songs.
Perhaps it's not so crazy? Licensing is where the payback will come from. Then there's the "Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, which is up to around volume 17 I think. Huge, expensive, numbered, and exclusive box sets are looming, as are "special editions" that encourage people to buy the albums they already own just so they can hear that 43rd unreleased take of Leopardskin Pillbox Hat that His Bobness recorded in the toilet at Sun Studio in Memphis. {The reverb is, like, unreal, dude.}
There are ways of making money once you're not constrained by pesky little things like, oh, I don't know... artistic integrity?
|
|
|
|
Post by MikeMusic on Dec 8, 2020 16:01:54 GMT
Aaah
Moby comes to mind with his breakthrough
|
|
