Record label sign deal to promote the salary of musicians

Under the music industry and a historic deal agreed by the government, lyricists and sessions musicians will get better salary rates.

For the first time, £ 75, £ 75, will get daily payments of plus travel and food expenses, at any time they participate in a session or song writing camp. Earlier, they were expected to cover their fees, and only be paid when a song was released.

The situation was Highlighted At the 2023 IVOR NOVELLO Awards, where he told the owners of the record label that it was “an insult” that lyricists were expecting “working for free”.

The new deal session gives musicians a salary increase of up to 40% for participating in recording sessions.

Pop musicians will see their standard fees growing from £ 130 to £ 182. Orchestral musicians will get a small 15% increase – for example, growing from £ 92.96 to £ 106.90 for a major violinist.

Changes were announced by the government’s creator Relationship Working Group (CRWG), which was established in 2024 to help over removing the lack of income of musicians in the streaming era.

The group was headed by Creative Industries Minister Sir Chris Bryant, who said that he was “sick and tired of musicians, who were to live with palette volume for songs” which “everyone likes to dance around his kitchen”.

Addressing the paletry royalty that receives many artists from streaming services, Sir Chris said: “I can’t change the situation of streaming worldwide, but what I can do can make sure that we are able to deal the best deal for artists in Britain.”

The new structure is agreed by all three major record labels, with the support of the composer Sangh, the Council of Irers Academy, Independent Music Association and Music Manufacturers for Lyrics.

It also allows musicians who signed a recording contract before the year 2000, before the arrival of streaming, to re -organize their contract and get high rates of salary.

There will also be any loan for their record labelA process launched by Sony Music in 2021)) With additional support to get “missing” songs added to streaming platforms.

Overall, the changes will distribute “millions of pounds of tens of tens” to musicians by 2030, Sir Chris said.

However, the council of musicians Sangh and music makers stated that they were “disappointed” that the package did not do much to deal with “basic problems with music streaming economics”.

They are demanding a minimum royalty rate for all artists, and a change in copyright law that will allow artists and lyricists to recover the rights of their songs after a fixed period of time.

Of the new changes, the new salary deal for lyricists is probably the most influential.

Before streaming, lyricists were sold at any time CD or vinyl record. Today, they get a fraction of £ 0.003 royalty that is played every time a song on streaming services.

A 2024 report by Consulting firm Media Research suggested that only 10% of working lyricists earned more than $ 30,000 (£ 22,000) per year.

His primary problem was earned less than half $ 1,000 (£ 741), citing “meaningful streaming income lack”.

The reason for this was taken by people like Abba’s Buren Ulwius, who said that the industry was “cheating lyricists” with a payment system “which was” dysfunctional in the best “.

“This is a very serious existence to this point,” INS Dunn says, Who wrote for artists Including mimi webb, including maisie peters and holly humberstone.

“Even to participate in a session, you have to pay for your trains, you have to pay for your lunch. So everyone is already out of the pocket, before they reach the studio.”

She describes new payments as a “a small step in the marathon”.

“I think it is important to mention that it does not solve problems in the long term,” she says. “It is not a limit to what lyricists are, but a very important step to ensure that people can simply show and do their work.

“There are many writers who are Uber drivers or only part -time jobs to stay. There are lyricists who cannot tolerate childcare – and they are [payments] Can help with that, even if they all spend it.

“I just want lyricists to be lyricists, and this is enough.”

The payment helps address the “giant power imbalance” in the music industry, connects the associate professor of lyrics at Birmingham City University, Simon Barber and Co-Maging Sodazerk on Song Writing Podcast,

“If you think of the fact that lyricists are essentially a fountain of new materials for these huge corporations, then to ask to cover expenses such as travel and food, there is a very basic need that you will expect to participate in most industries.

“So I think it’s really a positive step. And I think it probably encourages lyricists from a more diverse background, who is not necessarily a means of working for free, to participate more.”

The BBC understands that three major labels – two of the Warner Music and Universal – have agreed to start paying “per dim” for writers.

Seriously, the money will not be paid by the artist hosting the session, but by the label itself.

The third chief, Sony Music, has set up a £ 100,000 funds managed by the Ivisory to cover per Dims. This fund will also provide a “comprehensive support” to writers to help the music industry access to access and increase opportunities.

Changes come after being called to MPs “Full reset” To ensure the streaming market to ensure that the artists have found the “appropriate part of the streaming market” – which now produces more than £ 1 billion annually for the UK music industry.

Sir Chris told the BBC that the new structure would be reviewed after 12 months.

“If we find, in one year time, that it does not actually improve the remuneration of artists and musicians, then we always have the option to make laws.”

Producer remuneration will continue to proceed to further changes with a meeting to look into the issue of streaming salary for music composers for music composers.

Musicians who play on records by artists such as Harry Styles, Edel and Lewis Capledi, when they are played on radio and TV, royalty is obtained.

However, there is no equivalent royalty for digital streaming or on-demand radio services.