Apple Music & Spatial Audio: Higher Royalties for Tracks Mixed in 3D
Apple raises payouts for tracks mixed in Spatial Audio
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Apple has announced that it will pay up to 10% higher royalties for tracks available on Apple Music in spatial audio. This means you’ll receive more money if you mix in 3D! The change will take effect with the royalty payouts coming up at the end of January 2024. Apple’s goal is to promote the spatial audio format and reward artists and producers who put in the extra time and effort to mix in the new format.
10% more Money for Tracks mixed in Spatial Audio
Spatial Audio has been available on Apple’s streaming service since 2021. The tech giant has also added spatial audio mixing features to Logic Pro. And now you can make extra money if you use these features: Starting at the end of this month, Apple will pay up to 10% more for tracks released on Apple Music in spatial audio. This was first reported in a newsletter from Bloomberg in December 2023.
Yesterday, Apple followed this up with a newsletter to its label partners, saying that the spatial audio format is rapidly gaining acceptance among top-tier producers and artists. Moreover, 80% of the songs that reached Apple Music’s Global Daily Top 100 in the past year are reportedly already available in Spatial. Apple also said that more than 90% of Apple Music listeners have already listened to music in the format, and that spatial audio plays have more than tripled over the last two years.
And here’s the best bit: The higher royalties will reportedly also be paid for plays in traditional stereo. All that matters is that a track is available in Spatial. If that’s the case, all plays of that track will receive the higher payout, no matter the listening format. Regardless of what you might think of streaming and streaming royalties in general, we think that’s actually pretty decent on Apple’s part.
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