![]() That means that Baba O’Riley alone will have generated $357,000.ĭaltrey won’t share in the publishing side as he didn’t write it but should, in theory, have a share in the recorded side. Spotify pays an average of $0.007 per play, split between the record label (for the sound recording) and the publisher (for the composition). Baba O’Riley is the most-played Who song on Spotify with over 51m plays. Equally, Spotify also pays and, handily, makes all its play numbers public. YouTube might not pay much for streams of old Who videos, but it does pay. Yet, for him to say there are “no royalties” on the internet is, frankly, nonsense. Yet that doesn’t justify not paying to hear his music as if, because he’s got “enough” money now, we can all freeload off him. “I’ve got other things I could waste the money on.” While few will have much sympathy for an artist who plays enormous shows and is a key part of Desert Trip in October, the most financially lucrative festival line up of all time. ![]() “I’m certainly not going to pay money to give my music away free. This is utterly unsustainable and Daltrey is right to call it out. The internet has helped usher in a sense of entitlement among a certain type of consumer who feel that everything should be free and that they will go out of their way not to pay for anything. A solo Daltrey album will not, sadly, sell in the sort of numbers that would get a label treating it as a priority release.ĭaltrey, however, also made an important point about getting paid. Daltrey did have a top three album two years ago in the UK – but Going Back Home was a joint effort with Wilko Johnson, Dr Feelgood’s force of nature who wonderfully and beautifully zig-zagged past the Grim Reaper so that album was, in many ways, the lap of honour he wasn’t supposed to have. Take the singer out of the band and add the dreaded phrase “solo album” and watch as interest in that album slumps from near zero into a negative percentage.
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