HOW ROYALTIES WORK IN RECORD LABELS AND ARTISTS: A THREAD

Before you read through this thread, I would like to say that I am in no way disregarding anyone's desire to give proper credits to Sejun ++

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Ask you can see in the following SS from Spotify, Sejun was credited in all their songs in their GITZ Album and the source of the data was Sony Music Philippines as they are the record label handling SB19.

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To give you an insight what does a record label do for an artist, please read the following screenshots.

(Source: https://spinnup.com/top-faqs/how-do-record-labels-work/ )

You may also listen to this: https://soundcloud.com/rrfconnection/how-do-record-labels-make-money

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So why am I sharing my research to you? This is because Sejun's name was not included in the "composer" section of iTunes and majority, if not everyone, are calling out SBT for it...

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To put everything back to facts, Sony Music is the one in charge of everything. They paid for making, distributing and marketing the recordings.

So if there's anyone that needs to be questioned, it's Sony.

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Regarding the promotion of the album, SBT made its fair share of promotions which were moderated or controlled probably due to the contract with Sony. SBT even included on the tracklist Sejun's name in all songs.

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Meaning, they are starting to give proper credits to Sejun. All the call outs before "may" have done its job.

Now, any details you will see on the online music platforms were all from the materials distributed by Sony.

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So let's ask Sony for the facts. Was this another error like Sejun's name on Spotify before? Was it due to iTunes layout in credits section that's why Sejun's name was not shown?

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'Coz if I will think logically, why would Sony put Sejun's name on Spotify and not on iTunes? What's the point? They have been in the record label industry far too long, will they make this kind of error?

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Which brings me to the song credits on Deezer... Please watch the video. (Sorry sa wallpaper HAHAHA!).

Basically, Deezer has a separate section for the writer and composer.

Deezer gave credit to Sejun in all songs.

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Therefore, Sony submitted SB19's album details on a format where writer and composer are separated. And Love Goes, both in iTunes and Deezer, says Sejun is a co-composer for the song.

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Which means, iTunes who will probably just copy paste the details to their database, copied the "composer" data only from Sony's data since it is the one with the same title as their app layout.

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With all the cited sources and references for valid and factual argument, it's up to you on what to think.

And please, not that I'm pertaining to specific people, let me just warn you guys that this thread...

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This thread will not accept arguments regarding SBT's maltreatment issues because THAT IS A COMPLETELY SEPARATE TOPIC which I believe I made a thread on before, too.

So yah. Doing some research before arguing is the best!

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I won't judge anyone. I'm open for argument. Correct me and argue with me but make sure you use some facts and you did your research and I will do more research too.

Thank you so much!

HAPPY MOTMOT TO US!

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OH! By the way, regarding royalties, record labels gets the most cut in the profits. The app gets 30%, record label gets 57% and 13% will be distributed to performance and mechanical royalties.

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I've attached a link of a podcast on one of the tweets above, kindly listen to it. People speaking there are from record labels and they shared info on how they earn profits. ++

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Also, read this article for better understanding of how recording contracts work. :)

https://www.soundonsound.com/music-business/recording-contracts-explained

CIAO!

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