Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing! One of my pet gripes on having my music digitally distributed by The Orchard is that, as an artist, you have absolutely no idea if the figures you are being fed are accurate or not. You just have to go on trust.

I don’t know if anybody saw the movie “searching for sugarman”. Sixto Rodriquez’s royalties for his South African sales somehow went missing and nobody knew how it happened. Rodriquez was hugely popular in sa and sold loads of records here. Rodriquez never knew this (because his royalties somehow got lost) and gave up his music career completely. Years later, at the age of about 70 and after an enterprising South Africa “found” him, he came to South Africa to perform and could not believe a packed stadium singing back ALL of his lyrics to him! Sad story really because he was a phenomenal songwriter.

Maybe Blockchain technology will finally give complete control and transparency to artists.

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