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@pomCountyIrregs @music Great explanation ☺️
And from the sounds of it, UMG has now just allegedly turned around and said: 'Whoopsies! Software bug! Trevor from IT forgot to install that last floppy disk!
'Sorry guys, we hadn't been tallying your YouTube/Spotify/whatever streams these past 20-odd years! Genuine mistake!'
@ajsadauskas @music
One wonders at a software bug that affects one band owed nine figures from decades ago.
@pomCountyIrregs @music "Accidentally".
Just out of curiousity, has PCI ever been signed to a record label?
Do you see much in the way of royalties from the likes of Spotify or YouTube?
And do artists get much of a cut through Bandcamp?
@ajsadauskas @music No, no, no, not even close.
But I started in the 80s and had a close friend who did well as agent and then manager, so I learned a thing or two from a distance.
He passed away in 2019, so my limited access to inside dope is even more so.
I also read, when I was younger, biographies and memoirs from artists and suits, so that gave me a glimpse.