Topic

Music streaming royalties

How per-stream payments are attributed and paid out by streaming services to the parties credited with a recording.

Current clusters

Typing a band's name into DistroKid published an AI track to its verified Spotify page

404 Media paid $3.75 for a DistroKid account, typed Lathe of Heaven into the artist field and checked two boxes swearing it owned the music. A day later the AI track was live on the band's real pages at five services.

Publishers:404media.co

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption52
Hype gap+10
Incentives60
Confidence70