Benjamin James explains music publishing, the rights to a song’s composition rather than its recording, in part one of a series on the STVDIO Substack. His example is Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill,” which earned an estimated $3.5 million after its 2022 placement in Stranger Things.
The article cites $2.5 billion in distributions from The MLC since 2021, a U.S. streaming publishing rate that rose from 10.5% in 2018 to 15.1%, and a forecast that mobile games will quadruple their music spending by 2030.
Read the original article: “The fastest growing half of music (is also the most confusing)” by Benjamin James, STVDIO