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Janice is now on around 40 Spotify playlists so I occasionally search around the net on her name and sometimes find blog posts, etc., about her that we weren't aware of. Yesterday, and I have no idea how I've missed it, I discovered that her song The Right Track (co-written with floyd jane) has been on an album (last song in photo) and for sale since 2019 by ZDigital. They sell digital downloads in several countries. Hmmmm ... it's not a cover of the song but our actual recording. Then I found that Amazon had a now d/c CD of it for sale ... Hmmmm ... again. After a LOT of pondering I think that it may be a result of our Songtradr licensing but I'm gonna have to do a deep dive into our statements from them that I never read in detail given the charitably stated modest income.  Anyhow, I thought this might be of some interest. Ya never know. Bud EDIT: I've resolved the perceived issue with a little research. In 2018 I added several songs to Songtradr’s "monetization option." Quite a few of our songs were licensed for overhead music around the planet and those have generated a little income. I’m able to see which companies, e.g., Mood Media licensed them. There is also a “compilation album” section and apparently this song was licensed through it although ST does not indicate the specific album. So nothing has been misappropriated ... so I can spend those couple of bucks in joy. ![[Linked Image from janiceandbud.com]](https://www.janiceandbud.com/uploads/4/4/3/1/44312/img-1053_orig.jpg)
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Yeah. That has happened to me too but I don’t think it was songtradr. I think it was my digital distributor (The Orchard)
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I'm hoping those royalties start rolling in soon.
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Starting in 2006 I tried doing whack-a-mole with various unauthorized sites making money from my music. I soon gave up. Now it’s worse, since my work as a composer or sideman is not even in the credits.
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I'm hoping those royalties start rolling in soon.
I've got my eye on a Lamborghini... Maybe a used model toy in poor condition. 😀 Bud
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The state of the music business is total crap. Between the well past theft level of pay for streaming, to the scammers and totally dishonest ways of doing business, it's amazing that anyone is still writing songs.
But I guess it's not for the money.
Cool to think someone thought your song was good enough to want to put it on an album. Not paying for it is unconscionable. Obviously, they know how hard it would be to track them down for the royalties. That sux but it's a fact of life. You're not a real musician until you can say you have been ripped off. At least you aren't on tour playing to sold out arena crowds, getting paid $100 a week with a couple of number one hits making your business managers wealthy while you're staying in cheap hotels and eating beenie weenies out of the can with plastic spoons.
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In the music industry, for over 90% of the artists: - the gate-keepers have always made most of the money (publishers, record labels, streaming sites)
- there has always been piracy, from illegal fake books, recording songs from the radio, making cassette copies of LPs, and now digital
- plus pirate radio stations and now pirate streaming and download sites.
The performing artists get the crumbs off the table, unless you were the exception to the rule like Sinatra, Elvis, Beatles, M. Jackson, Ms. Swift. Even a number of stars got pimped. Labels owned the names of the artists and groups, so they could control everything. When I was gigging for Motown, there were multiple Temptations, Miracles, Marvelettes and others touring the country. Prince and Fogarty had to sue to use their own names. Fortunately, I've been a live performer all my life. We almost “made it big” once, but the record company wanted all our royalties (for recording, distribution and promotion). Plus they wanted to own our name, have exclusive publishing rights to anything we wrote, and put a fictional writer in to collect half the writing royalties. Our manager wanted a better contract, and the label quit talking to him. But we do it because we love it. Janice, Bud, and Floyd Jane, I hope it goes viral, and you make huge royalties from your efforts. Notes ♫
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The state of the music business is total crap. Between the well past theft level of pay for streaming, to the scammers and totally dishonest ways of doing business, it's amazing that anyone is still writing songs. I think to some degree it has always been crap. I think now we are more aware of how crap it is. Did anybody watch that film on Netflix about Spotify? They made a fortune, the record companies made a fortune and the long tail artists get less than zero.
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The state of the music business is total crap. Between the well past theft level of pay for streaming, to the scammers and totally dishonest ways of doing business, it's amazing that anyone is still writing songs. I think to some degree it has always been crap. I think now we are more aware of how crap it is. Did anybody watch that film on Netflix about Spotify? They made a fortune, the record companies made a fortune and the long tail artists get less than zero. Joanne, Is that the fictional series called The Playlist? We had thought about watching it. Or is there a documentary? We only found the former on Netflix. Thanks. Bud
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Bud. From what I understood is that it is based on a non-fiction book that tells the story of Spotify but the characters in the film are fictional.
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Bud. From what I understood is that it is based on a non-fiction book that tells the story of Spotify but the characters in the film are fictional. Thanks Joanne. We watch a lot of well reviewed series (never bingeing) so we'll add that to the list. Have you watched the newish four hour documentary on Joan Baez?
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Herb I laughed out loud at the Beenie weenies crack! Bud, I am so sad that you found this out! You guys obviously put a lot into your craft, and sadly thieves don't care. Just another example of the sad state of affairs in the world today. Just know that you guys make great music, and make a lot of people happy when they listen. Thanks for your hard work and dedication to music.
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The state of the music business is total crap. ... getting paid $100 a week with a couple of number one hits making your business managers wealthy while you're staying in cheap hotels and eating beenie weenies out of the can with plastic spoons. Reminds me of the movie One Trick Pony .. Paul Simon probably made more off of SNL than some of his later albums .. which is sad, because some of them were pretty good albums If anyone likes the old studio guys like Eric Gayle, Richard Tee, Steve Gadd, Tony Levin etc. .. it's an interesting watch with good music https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081280/It ain't for everyone, but being a musician makes it much more relatable. .. I'm going to continue on here, but feel free to ignore, as what follows is all a hunch .. no facts I think the above movie was Paul's way of expressing frustration and making his own movie to complain .. was it critically acclaimed? No. But his point of writing all of this and going thru the effort is pretty clear. Shortly after he continued to push it with the recording companies and did the video with Chevy Chase on 'You can call me Al' tune .. kinda rubbing their nose in it. About the same time Chevy Chase made a solo album (pretty obscure) featuring parodies of Rappers Delight and I shot the sheriff, it was a pretty funny album at the time, but he used all studio musicians to create new versions (avoiding using previous recordings) .. and I think he joined in thumbing it to the recording companies Joe Pesci kind of the did same thing on his Vincent Laguardia Gambini album .. took a lot of 'old' school' type stuff and recreated it with his own band .. again it was funny, but this one requires more tolerance of language/approach to appreciate .. if you know Pesci, you can imagine There have been people who tried to express the frustration at the situation, with their own money (which makes commercial success very unlikely) .. but previous artists have done it. I wish more had supported them back then, just for the effort. That's why I said earlier that Paul probably made more off of SNL than a couple of his later albums; he was clearly frustrated
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The state of the music business is total crap. Between the well past theft level of pay for streaming, to the scammers and totally dishonest ways of doing business, it's amazing that anyone is still writing songs. I think to some degree it has always been crap. I think now we are more aware of how crap it is. Did anybody watch that film on Netflix about Spotify? They made a fortune, the record companies made a fortune and the long tail artists get less than zero. When I was younger, I was in a band that was the opening acts for groups like The Four Seasons, The Association, and eventually under the wing of Motown in its prime. We opened for Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, and eventually a few huge star-studded Motown Reviews. At the time, Bob Seger was making #1 hits on Detroit radio, so Berry wanted to expand his influence. We were chosen to be the first all-white act on the Motown family of labels. After a lot of negotiation, this was Motown's final offer: Our royalties were to be 2 cents per record or LP track. Out of our royalties, Motown would deduct - Exaggerated recording fees
- Inflated distribution costs
- Outrageous promotional fees
Plus - Motown would own all publishing rights
- We were to choose another name, one that Motown would own, and they would have the right to hire or fire anyone and have multiple bands touring with that name
- A ghostwriter who contributes nothing would be added to any song we wrote, and would receive half the songwriting royalties.
Now to be fair, 2¢ back then is more like $2 now, but everything else is more expensive today (For example, gas was 33¢ per gallon back then). The gatekeepers have always pimped the artists, and although the gatekeepers change through the years, their greed hasn't. The exception for deals like that would be, if your first effort went viral, and you became like Elvis, The Beatles, Taylor Swift or some of the others, you could negotiate a better deal for the next recording and get very wealthy. If not, you became just another one-hit, one-LP, one CD or one-album wonder. Me? I've made a living performing other people's music. I've played small dives, huge concert halls, cruise ships, show clubs, private parties, restaurants, yacht clubs, country clubs, retirement developments, singles bars, condominiums, shopping malls, and just about anywhere else a musician can be hired, including the roof of a gas station for its grand opening. I am a chameleon musician, playing 8 instruments and many genres. I've played rock, country, salsa, reggae, jazz, symphonies, and so on. Through the decades, I neither made it to the top, nor got rich. But on the other hand, I'm living life on my own terms, I'm not in debt, and I'm not a 5 day per week wage slave. I live modestly but I'm very happy. To me, this is a better way to live a life as a musician and I have no desire to chase the dream where I put in all the effort and the gatekeeper gets 99.999999% of the money. But that's just me. There is more than one right way to go through life. Insights and incites by Notes ♫
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I've resolved the perceived issue with a little research. In 2018 I added several songs to Songtradr’s "monetization option." Quite a few of our songs were licensed for overhead music around the planet and those have generated a little income. I’m able to see which companies, e.g., Mood Media licensed them. There is also a “compilation album” section and apparently this song was licensed through it although ST does not indicate the specific album. So nothing has been misappropriated ... so I can spend those couple of bucks in joy. I would like to mention that all this is for fun. I’ve been retired for 25 years and could care less about income from our music. It’s all about the positive aspects of knowing that folks other than family and friends like our efforts. And hey, 10,000 plays on streaming platforms over the last year earned us a whopping $38.21. Bud
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I think we all do it for fun, even those of us who do it for a living.
I could have been an electronics engineer, and actually did that job for a Cable TV equipment manufacturer for a few years while testing out what it is to be normal. It paid much better than being a musician, but music called me back.
I hope your audience and your pleasure grows.
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I think we all do it for fun, even those of us who do it for a living.
I could have been an electronics engineer, and actually did that job for a Cable TV equipment manufacturer for a few years while testing out what it is to be normal. It paid much better than being a musician, but music called me back.
I hope your audience and your pleasure grows.
Notes ♫ We both retired years ago from the behavioral health field. During those years we frequently gigged at clubs and festivals. It would’ve been a lot more fun had we not had rather stressful employment. So nowadays with BiaB we are simply having fun with it all although no desire to gig again. The vast majority of our time is spent mountain biking and hiking. So as you mentioned the pleasure does grow. Audience? Well Janice was featured with her bio on Don’s Tunes webpage. He’s a popular blues rock Spotify playlister with nearly two million followers on YouTube … so if he were to decide to feature her in a video things could get interesting. 😀 Glad music called you back and play on! Bud
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Here where I live there is a song writer. He wrote a lot with Toby Keith (RIP) and was the co writer of many of Toby's big hits. We were talking a while back and he used to get BMI checks in the tens of thousands every single month. Then it started slowing up and then it was a trickle. There is no money in the traditional sense anymore. It is there for the huge artists. Those fractions of a penny from streaming add up to a lot when you get a billion streams (not an exaggeration just ask Taylor Swift). Rick Beato, like him or hate him, had a couple of good videos not too long ago about all this. The business side. He and Tim Pierce did one about the death of the middle class musician in the Los Angeles studio world. Just a crazy world now.
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<...snip...> Those fractions of a penny from streaming add up to a lot when you get a billion streams (not an exaggeration just ask Taylor Swift)<...> This is so true, for perhaps 1% of the people who write songs. The few who break out from the masses give us all some hope, and something to dream about. And a small percentage of us will get there. In a way, it's like playing the lottery, but it's a lot more creative, and if you are doing it right, a lot more fun. If you know the right people, you are a shoo in. If not, it's a matter of luck plus talent. Decades ago I was talking to Tom Scott. About 'making it', he said, and I'll paraphrase — that there is a sax player gigging in a Holiday Inn somewhere, like Valparaiso, Indiana, who could put me in his back pocket. But I had the right connections, I showed up in the right place at the right time, and I could do the job. I'm not trying to be a downer, just realistic. If you don't have the connections, don't get discouraged, it can happen, but just don't bank your future on it. Insights and incites by Notes ♫
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Great anecdote. I think Tom Scott may have been too modest - I have several of his first-class jazz funk albums - but I take your point.
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We've been hard at it to bring you the latest and greatest in this 9th installment of our popular XPro Styles PAK series! Included are 75 styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres (25 styles each) that fans have come to expect, as well as 25 styles in this volume's wildcard genre: funk & R&B!
If you're itching to get a sneak peek at what's included in XPro Styles PAK 9, here is a small helping of what you can look forward to: Funky R&B Horns, Upbeat Celtic Rock, Jazz Fusion Salsa, Gentle Indie Folk, Cool '60s Soul, Funky '70s R&B, Smooth Jazz Hip Hop, Acoustic Rockabilly Swing, Funky Reggae Dub, Dreamy Retro Latin Jazz, Retro Soul-Rock Fusion, and much more!
Special Pricing! Until July 31, 2024, all the XPro Styles PAKs 1 - 9 are on sale for only $29 ea (Reg. $49 ea), or get them all in the XPro Styles PAK Bundle for only $149 (reg. $299)! Order now!
Learn more and listen to demos of XPro Styles PAKs.
Video: XPro Styles PAK 9 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!
XPro Styles PAKs require Band-in-a-Box® 2025 or higher and are compatible with ANY package, including the Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, and Audiophile Edition.
New! Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box 2025 and Higher for Windows!
Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Windows & Mac Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) is here with 200 brand new RealStyles!
We're excited to bring you our latest and greatest in the all new Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box! This fresh installment is packed with 200 all-new styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres you've come to expect, as well as the exciting inclusion of electronic styles!
In this PAK you’ll discover: Minimalist Modern Funk, New Wave Synth Pop, Hard Bop Latin Groove, Gospel Country Shuffle, Cinematic Synthwave, '60s Motown, Funky Lo-Fi Bossa, Heavy 1980s Metal, Soft Muted 12-8 Folk, J-Pop Jazz Fusion, and many more!
All the Xtra Styles PAKs 1 - 20 are on special for only $29 each (reg $49), or get all 209 PAKs for $199 (reg $399)! Order now!
Learn more and listen to demos of the Xtra Styles PAK 20.
Video: Xtra Styles PAK 20 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!
Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 20 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version because they need the RealTracks from the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.
New! XPro Styles PAK 9 for Band-in-a-Box 2025 and higher for Windows!
We've just released XPro Styles PAK 9 for Windows & Mac Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) with 100 brand new RealStyles, plus 29 RealTracks/RealDrums!
We've been hard at it to bring you the latest and greatest in this 9th installment of our popular XPro Styles PAK series! Included are 75 styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres (25 styles each) that fans have come to expect, as well as 25 styles in this volume's wildcard genre: funk & R&B!
If you're itching to get a sneak peek at what's included in XPro Styles PAK 9, here is a small helping of what you can look forward to: Funky R&B Horns, Upbeat Celtic Rock, Jazz Fusion Salsa, Gentle Indie Folk, Cool '60s Soul, Funky '70s R&B, Smooth Jazz Hip Hop, Acoustic Rockabilly Swing, Funky Reggae Dub, Dreamy Retro Latin Jazz, Retro Soul-Rock Fusion, and much more!
Special Pricing! Until July 31, 2024, all the XPro Styles PAKs 1 - 9 are on sale for only $29 ea (Reg. $49 ea), or get them all in the XPro Styles PAK Bundle for only $149 (reg. $299)! Order now!
Learn more and listen to demos of XPro Styles PAKs.
Video: XPro Styles PAK 9 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!
XPro Styles PAKs require Band-in-a-Box® 2025 or higher and are compatible with ANY package, including the Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, and Audiophile Edition.
Video: Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: VST3 Plugin Support
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac® now includes support for VST3 plugins, alongside VST and AU. Use them with MIDI or audio tracks for even more creative possibilities in your music production.
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Macs®: VST3 Plugin Support
Video: Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: Using VST3 Plugins
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