Nevertheless, the UN report suggested the goal of 'equitable remuneration' would best be met by an additional payment from the major streaming platforms to performers and potentially to producers. It said it paid out $US5 billion to rights holders in 2020. Spotify deniedВ it pays a fixed amount per stream but rather distributedВ its pool of revenue based on each artist's proportion of streams. The UN report considered different models for streaming services, including 'fan-powered' royalty payments, similar to the system proposed by The Pack, where a listener's subscription is paid to the artists they listen to rather than going into a pool.Д«ut the report said 'the imbalance between billions in market valuation and fractions of a penny in streaming payments would likely remain'. Joan and the Giants have not been able to rely on streaming services to help pay for producing their music. 'And the other reason is the creator-consumer model, which means every subscription only goes to those artists who the subscriber has streamed.' 'You will hear local music in your local spaces and places and you will be able to invest in that locally and directly. 'We actually believe they'll be making more money through The Pack, in this hyper-local system than they will actually make on Spotify,' she said. Ms Bainbridge said the scale of major streaming services had already been shown not to financially benefit many artists. The creators say the model can work nationally, with interest from artists from around the country and even internationally.Д«ut they acknowledge they will never have the membership of a company like Spotify, with its 355 million-plus subscribers. The app will initially be trialled around parts of Perth, with the aim of launching commercially in August next year. They want it to be easier for music lovers to discover new singers or bands in their area, and also for businesses who want to play local music, but have trouble finding it on Spotify or Apple Music.Д¬afe owner Ali Pasay (left) is keen to become a patron of the app. It's much easier for people to find us,'В Ms Bainbridge said. 'When we become part of our own cohort in our own communities, we're very visible. They say it will promote local unsigned artists who are 'invisible' on major streaming platforms, without the backing of record labels to support them.

It's their creativity, it's their heart and soul and they deserve to be paid for it,' Ms Deluxe said. 'It belongs to them, the music belongs to them. 'There's no labels or middlemen, so we're actually cutting out a very big part of that conversation, and it's meaningful to artists because they'll get a much larger percentage of the streaming royalty,' Ms Bainbridge said.ДЄrtists would receive 40 per cent of all revenue generated by The Pack, and the rest would go back into developing the business. Listeners and businesses can subscribe to The Pack as patrons, with the money going straight into the pockets of artists. They are creatingВ a music streaming app called The Pack for unsigned, original local artists.

Melanie Bainbridge (left) and Harry Deluxe say they developed The Pack to benefit the creators of music. 'Instead of effectively benefiting the people at the top, it benefits the creator. 'All we're doing is turning the business model of streaming on its head,' Ms Bainbridge told business leaders at a startup forum on Tuesday. Melanie Bainbridge and Harry Deluxe, who have decades of experience in the music industry - most recentlyВ in the band Mama Red and the Dark Blues -В have watched the decimation of revenue streams for recording artists and decided to do something about it. Turning the streaming business model on its head She has had enough and is keen to embrace a new music streaming platform designed to give back more to local musicians. You have to gig, you have to sell merch, you have to do a lot of things to support yourself as an artist, otherwise it's really hard to make any money out of streaming services,' the Perth-based singer said

That's compared to the $8,000 it cost Grace Newton-Wordsworth and her band to record and master one of their recent songs, create a video clip and promote it. In other words, it would take a million streams for an artist to receive about $4,200 from Spotify and $10,000 from Apple Music. Grace Newton-Wordsworth says it cost the band thousands to record, master and promote a song.

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