{"id":5204,"date":"2015-05-07T18:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/05\/07\/sony-removes-all-music-from-soundcloud\/"},"modified":"2015-05-07T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:21:13","slug":"sony-removes-all-music-from-soundcloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/05\/07\/sony-removes-all-music-from-soundcloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Removes All Music From Soundcloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1079\" src=\"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sony_music.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><br \/>The globe&#8217;s second biggest music group, Sony, pulled its music off of SoundCloud yesterday after failing to reach an agreement. Gone are such hit artists as\u00a0\u00a0Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Hozier and Miguel. Sony dispute with Soundcloud is over\u00a0\u201ca lack of monetization opportunities,\u201d an anonymous music executive told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/biz\/articles\/news\/digital-and-mobile\/6554113\/sony-pulls-hozier-adele-miguel-others-from-soundcloud\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a>, who were first to report the takedown. \u201c[It\u2019s] been a good place for exposure,\u201d added an artist manager. \u201cAt the same time, artists and labels need to get paid for music. Until that can be worked out, we\u2019re going to have situations that are incompatible with artist development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the NMPA, Soundcloud has also been able to strike a licensing deal with Warner Music Group; and talks with other rightsholders are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in ongoing conversations with major and independent labels and will continue to add partners to the program,\u201d noting that the company has already paid out more than $2 million in advertising revenue to more than 100 partners since On SoundCloud\u2019s establishment in late 2014&#8243; Soundcloud said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019ve always put control in the hands of creators, and anyone who makes music and audio can decide when and how they want to share it with fans, allowing artists to essentially broadcast out to the world the availability of new content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hyperbot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The globe&#8217;s second biggest music group, Sony, pulled its music off of SoundCloud yesterday after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}