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Music rights for artist, record labels and distributors. How income is generated for music royalties from different avenues. The different streams of income for royalties generated from music. The music industry is known for producing the most talented artists in the world. Producing hits after hits which have been soundtracks to many people’s lives well they get paid from those records. In many numerous ways from songwriting, composing and to the actual sound of the song depending on how it is used through royalties. Music Royalties are revenue generated and paid to copyright owners from the use of copyrighted composition and recordings of a song in public platforms. Which is a source of income for the music industry including song writers, record labels and publishers. Royalty Payment depends on the deal made between copyright owner and the platform in which their work is being used which could be once off, monthly or quarterly. A song is divided into two copyrights the composition and the recording. The composition consists of the lyrics and melody of a song. The recording is the song itself meaning the sound of the song. These two formats allow creatives to have the publishing right and master right in the composition and the recording of a song. The payment of royalties is split according to the owner of these respective categories. For instance, AKA and KDDO have written Company and released the song with a distribution company called Vth season. The song is picked up by as a commercial through a license deal, Vth season will collect the payment on behalf of AKA and KDDO. Take their share according to the agreement and give AKA and KDDO their cut. There are diverse types of royalties that are generated which include: Sales or Streaming – Revenue will be generated from sales from CD’s and vinyl or in today’s age streaming from music platform such as Apple Music or Spotify, among others. Collected by Publishers and CAPASSO. Licensing …

What goes into making a record a success. The different departments musicians have to share the spoils with. Different sources of revenue for musicians. Musicians work immensely hard to create songs that impact people lives and bring moments of happiness. This takes long nights in studio brainstorming, writing and recording to create the final product that you hear when press play on a song. There is a lot of effort that goes into creating a successful song which is rewarding for an artist when they get paid for their work. Many musicians have different ways of getting their creative juices flowing before going into studio to create our favourite songs. Whether it is drawing from real life experiences by taking some time away from the studio. Consuming content from watching movies or social media or just being in the studio and letting come from experience. Once the record is in the process of being created, this is where the different parties come into play such as song writers, producers and mixing engineers. After the song is completed the business side of the music kicks in, with having to promote the song, shooting music videos and interacting with media to create buzz around the project. There are a lot of different entities that have to be paid for their contribution to a record that make sure that not only that song sounds good, but it is promoted just as good to the public. In the studio space there is the producer who is necessary for the composition of the song, the song writers and mixing engineers. When it comes to the promotion Public Relations Practitioners are essential in getting the record to the intended target audience through an artist’s audience and the media for a larger audience. The musician themselves have to the go on interviews and performances with their DJ who is responsible for curating songs for performances. Personal assistants for daily activities which are completed by the artist and anything they may need on …

Music has the ability to strike feelings of emotion and take us back to a time in our lives. We all have that playlist of songs or an album to help us go through our emotions as a copping mechanism. Can you remember the first time you heard music? for most of us it probably from our parents. For me it was from my father, who would play different genres of music from African pop, Gospel and Maskandi. Before the digital era of music, I remember my father would have packs of DVDs of music from his favourite artist such Brenda Fassie, Hlengiwe Mhlaba and Thokozani Langa which he would play on weekends. Seeing him sing along to some of Brenda Fassie’s greatest hits spoke to his mood at the time which was a place of being in a good mood and nostalgia or when he play gospel would give away where he was emotionally, he would go as  turning the music up to the point where the neighbours can hear the music. Till this day he asks me to download music for him and put it on a USB so he can play it on his music system. Later I would go on to develop my own music taste from being exposed to watching television and listening to the radio. I gravitated towards genres such as house music which was popular during the 2010s with songs from Big Nuz, Black Coffee, DJ Kent, DJ Zinhle in South Africa at the time and would later move into R&B and Hip-Hop as I grew older. When I had my own phone and I started to control what I listen to. As I became of age I started to listen to music that spoke to how I was feeling at the time whether it was going through a hard time or falling in love in love for the first time, There was always a song I could turn to that would fit my situation. Whether I am with my friends there is always music playing in the background and where when go out it. I realised from my myself and everyone around me that music allows us to be in touch with our emotions. There are times where I have no one to talk to so I would put on that playlist and block out …