SoundExchange is the industry standard. I get royalties twice a year from a hit record I played drums on in 1967.

"SoundExchange is the non-profit performance rights organization that collects statutory royalties from satellite radio (such as SIRIUS XM), internet radio, cable TV music channels and similar platforms for streaming sound recordings.  The Copyright Royalty Board, which is appointed by The U.S. Library of Congress, has entrusted SoundExchange as the sole entity in the United States to collect and distribute these digital performance royalties on behalf of featured recording artists, master rights owners (like record labels), and independent artists who record and own their masters."

The Letter, by The Boxtops.

The one that says "my baby she wrote me a letter"?

cool tune

The Letter, by The Boxtops.

A quick youtube search shows over 7 millon views on just the first page of results. I hope you got your royalties for that. I doesn't appear that soundexchange covers youtube.

well, what the fo-ck !!

from the horse's mouth :

"Ah, but video content creators win too. That�s the beauty of it. Video creators get to use the music legally. And they can even make money too."


great, so now anyone is allowed to steal copyrighted music in exchange of a pittance in advertising ?
like ... if you can't beat piracy join it  ??

as if the whole of you youtube wasn't already 90% stolen content ? (that too was admitted by the two cofounders as their "dirty little secret").

really, the whole music industry finally is hitting the rock bottom if we've come to this.

and it's 100% bu-ll-sh-it, they make the example of an artist with 1700 tracks earning 30K/month but what about random bands with no more than a few dozens tracks ? sorry that will make it 4-500$/year if they're lucky and in the meantime hundreds of crooks will be free to use their music in hundreds of videos.

and on top of this the videomaking crooks are complainig there's no more money to make off youtube, booo-hoo !

I've heard about 120K views are needed before a video (with ads) makes the $100- payout minimum....  The video creator must own or have permission for all content in the video.  Videos with "matched third party content" (borrowed music) carry ads too but the earnings go elsewhere.   

I know that one!  Top song.