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For this week's Fresh Music Friday, we're featuring R&B singer/songwriter, Teray Love Jones with "Moments." See the man behind the music at @officialteraylovejones. --- If you'd like your latest single to be featured, contact nicole@musikidtv.com. Title the subject line "Fresh Music Friday" along with the title of your track. #TerayLoveJones #Moments #RB #Singer #Songwriters

It has been announced that JAAK, a London-based blockchain network, launched a prosperous pilot named KORD. KORD performs as a decentralized web of IP intelligence. It combines establishing information through labels, publishers, PROs, songwriters, and their representatives. Consumers can attach to a joint data network that applies the Ethereum blockchain. They’d have the exclusive right to install, upgrade, and eliminate their own information. This system can establish a pub

Wixen Music Publishing made a lawsuit against Spotify for slightly $1.6 billion. WMP believed that Spotify is illegally under-paying songwriters while giving substantial yearly salaries to its executives. “All we’re asking for is for them to reasonably compensate our clients by sharing a minuscule amount of the revenue they take in with the creators of the product they sell. Music fans should be able to enjoy Spotify, knowing that their favorite artists are being treated fair

It was revealed that Rodney Jerkins and Andre Lindal were the songwriters for Justin Bieber’s 2010 single, “As Long as You Love Me”. However, there’s been a issue with the royalties. “So on the first page. It says the total royalty amount was $149,000." – Rodney Jenkins. Also, Jerkins declared that his cut from the song is 20%. The song was played 347,820 times on the radio with 34,220,900 views on YouTube. Jerkins broke down the numbers from the spins. Jenkins said, “If he w

It has been reported that well-known music publishers are beginning to go head-to-head with Spotify. Spotify’s attorney declared that the procreative mechanical license doesn’t engage with streaming services. National Music Publishers’ Association's (NMPA) CEO David Israelite sent an email to Digital Music News (CLICK HERE To read the full message). We will see on what will happen between these two. What do you think? Team Spotify? Team NMPA? Let us know in the comment sectio

Apparently, hip-hop artists are leading the US’s top songwriters chart for 6 months straight this year. Metro Boomin (Leland Wayne) is ranked #1 in the songwriter lead for hits like: “Mask Off”, “Tunnel Vision”, “Bad And Boujee”, “Congratulations”. Quavo at #2, Kendrick Lamar at #3, Ed Sheeran at #4, and Drake at #5. What do you think guys? Will Hip-Hop lead for another 6 months in this year? Do you agree with this list? Let us know in the comment section down below. #Kendric

Based on an article by Tim Ingham for Music Business Worldwide. Private US-based licensing organization SESAC has reached a new deal with the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC), which the PRO claims will result in substantially larger rates for its clients that ASCAP’s equivalent agreement. The RMLC represents more than 10,000 commercial radio stations in the US market, and has been in arbitration with SESAC over royalties since 2015. That process now has a definitive resul

In late 2018, BMI and ASCAP plan to launch a new musical works database to offer more transparency to music users and the industry. BMI and ASCAP are working with copyright and tech experts to analyze data from each of their current systems for inaccuracies in registrations, and share splits, ownership disputes and complications related to international works. This new musical database will have the same information that’s available on ASCAP's Ace Repertory and BMI's Repertoi