1. Music Distribution
Digital vs Physical

2. Who Own The Beatles Music?

3. Michael Jackson

4. How?
In the 1970’s Paul McCartney told Michael Jackson about the money that could be made from buying the publishing rights of music
Michael Jackson told Paul McCartney that he was going to buy the music of the Beatles. McCartney thought it was a joke… it wasn’t
In 1984, Jackson bought the publishing company that owned the Beatles music (ATV) for 47.5 Million Dollars

5. Why Buy Music?
While artists are entitled to pay for each cd sold and when their music is played online or on the radio, the publishers make the majority of the money
The sale on a general CD would generally be broken down as follows:
Artist: 6.6%
Producer: 2.2%
Song Writer: 4.5%
Distributer: 22%
Manufacturer: 5%
Retailer: 30%
Record Label: 30%

6. Digital Music: The ITunes Method
The first legal major challenge to physical music sales was Itunes
Once again the record labels made the majority of the money as shown in the following breakdown (This example uses a single song sold at $1.29)
70-80 Cents goes to the record label
40 Cents goes to Apple
10-20 Cents goes to Artist
The label is required by law to pay songwriter 9.1 cents as a mechanical royalty

7. Digital Music: Spotify and the Age of Streaming Music
As with every other method of music sales, it is the record label who makes the majority of sales
On average, each time an artists song is streamed they make $0.008
In the case when the artist is owned by a record label, the make around 9 times more