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New York eyes, Chicago thighs

[Folk ⸆⸉ Swift Charts @SwiftyRuza]

happy pride month everyone!! ✨️

[erika @yeeeerika]

10 things owning a lava lamp taught me about leadership

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

[R @shibadad8]

Wait so wtf were the previous NYC Mayors doing?

[fluttershy @hwrtyed]

from a young age i knew everybody was wrong and i was right

[biblically accurate lava lamp @daggermaddie]

bet this idiot would loooooove Newspeak

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

I don't understand the point of using the term "dozen". It means 12, so just say 12? It's even worse when people say or type "half a dozen". Just say 6 or six.

[soup🍓 @thrluv]

reverse catcalling, where you roll your window down & tell a man that he looks like shit

[biblically accurate lava lamp @daggermaddie]

bring me the horizon fans coming together to cheer on the knicks this week so our show didn’t get rescheduled is hilarious cause I KNOW 99% of the people going to that show have never given a shit about the knicks in their LIFE

[Lila 🎸 @m1s_shapes]

*taps sign*

[Harry @hdwmovies]

i straight up think generative ai should be illegal

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Taylor Swift’s record contract could lead to millions of dollars being paid to artists as UMG prepares to sell half of their equity stake in Spotify.

When Swift signed her contract in 2018, she negotiated a clause stating that any sale of UMG’s Spotify shares would result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable.

Her “non-recoupable” clause ensures that artists receive that money even if they still owe advances to the label that signed them.

(https://t.co/a6vxKX98qo)

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Today is April 29th.

[State of the Scene @SOTSPodcast]

Bruno Mars looked at Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy) on this day 18 years ago.

[miia @miiagarro]

"boys dont cry" not true. u just don’t know how to make them cry, all of mine cried

[Zoya🕊️ @Zoya_ki_batein]

The real villain was Coach Carr sleeping with two underage students but go off

[biblically accurate lava lamp @daggermaddie]

they should make a pair of tights that don’t betray you

[candela @candelamustdie]

ustedes hablan de como yungblud es el heredero de ozzy osbourne y re que todo este tiempo fue ella

[biblically accurate lava lamp @daggermaddie]

love walking down Kent ave between Williamsburg and Greenpoint cause you get to pass throughthe Tony Hawk pro skater map/crabcore music video district

[biblically accurate lava lamp @daggermaddie]

Celebrity sighting!!! @BirdCentralPark