Unbelievable: The Following Artists Are Not Getting Paid by SoundExchange…

It just seems broken: on one hand, you have companies like Pandora struggling to make royalty payments and survive as a business.  But a lot of those payments are getting dumped into a dead-end bank account at SoundExchange, never getting distributed to artists or labels.  Part of the reason is that tens of thousands artists have never registered, or worse, have no idea they should be registering in the first place. 
But these aren’t all obscure names.  Instead, a recently-published list of unregistered SoundExchange artists features dozens of artists you just might recognize.  These artists account for a huge number of spins, yet many of these owed royalties become unrecoverable after October 15th.

Here’s the list. Some of these bands are receiving partial payments for certain members, others are getting nothing.

Skrillex
Flavor Flav
Sublime
Bernie Taupin
Boston
the estate of Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopez
N.W.A.
Billy Bob Thornton
Swedish House Mafia
Fitz & the Tantrums
A$ap Rocky
Florence and the Machine
Geto Boys
Rebecca Black
Goodie Mob
Nic Harcourt
DJ Khalid
Rammstein
the estate of J Dilla
Gene Simmons
Fleet Foxes
Fleetwood Mac
Rob Zombie
Irv Gotti
the estate of Andy Gibb
Bill Clinton
the estate of Dimebag Darrell
Jamiroquai
Gucci Mane
Benny Blanco
Robin Williams
P. Funk
Cali Swag District
the estate of Luciano Pavarotti
Pauly D
Louis CK
Pastor Troy
Die Antwoord
Artie Lange
Salif Keita
Broken Social Scene
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
the estate of DJ AM
Asia
Lord Finesse
Leon Huff
Mase
Childish Gambino
Diddy
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
L.A. Guns
Leon Huff
The Byrds
Astrud Gilberto
Biohazard
Datarock
Blackstreet
Lil’ Romeo
Box Tops
Brother Ali
Lost Boyz
Cappadonna
Charlie Sheen
Cash Money Millionaires
the estate of Celia Cruz
The Dust Brothers
SBTRKT
DJ Kool
Diamond D
Steven Van Zandt
the estate of Edith Piaf
Martin Solveig
MC Lyte
Evan & Jaron
Ennio Morricone
the estate of Fred Astaire
Stuck Mojo
MC Eiht
MC5
Get Busy Committee
the estate of GG Allin
Husker Du
3 Doors Down
Memphis Bleek
Melky Sedeck
the estate of Irving Berlin
Shudder to Think
the estate of Israel Kamakawiwo Ole
Montell Jordan
Jackie Evancho
Izzy Stradlin
Machine Gun Kelly
Mad Lion
The Afghan Whigs
The Lox
Laura Benanti

Source: Digital Music news