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How musicians can get paid for training AI

Tracing a generated song’s roots could guide payouts, but will it be fair?
Deadline.com

U.S. Paid Music Subscriptions Top 100M For First Time As Vinyl Surge Continues In 2024

The United States continues to be one nation under a groove. The country’s recorded music sector grew again in 2024, up by more than $500 million from the previous year, driven by paid subscriptions ...
Variety

Spotify Paid Over $4.5 Billion to Music Publishers Over the Last Two Years, So Why Are Songwriters Struggling?

Spotify announced earlier this year that it paid out a record $10 billion-plus to the music industry in 2024, bringing its total to nearly $60 billion since its inception in 2006. The company — the ...
Yahoo

YouTube Paid the Music Industry Over $8 Billion in Just One Year — But It’s Still Behind Spotify

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YouTube Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen (Photo Credit: Romain Maurice/Getty Images) YouTube announced Thursday that the company ...
Variety

Spotify Paid Out $10 Billion to the Music Industry in 2024 — $1 Billion More Than Last Year — and $60 Billion Total

Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024 — some $1 billion more than last year, the previous record — making its total around $60 billion since it was founded in 2006. The company ...