{"id":4761,"date":"2015-01-30T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/latest-ascap-songwriter-2015-news\/"},"modified":"2015-01-30T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:47:40","slug":"latest-ascap-songwriter-2015-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/30\/latest-ascap-songwriter-2015-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Ascap Songwriter 2015 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SoundExchange Says It Paid 3 Million in Music Royalties Last Year<\/strong><br \/>\nThe amount of royalties generated each year by the 15-year-old SoundExchange is now close to what is paid by <b>Ascap<\/b> and BMI, which handle the <b>songwriting<\/b> side of rights for radio, online services and other outlets and have been some of the music&nbsp;&#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/30\/business\/media\/soundexchange-says-it-paid-773-million-in-music-royalties-last-year.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Petty Awarded <b>Songwriting<\/b> Royalties for Sam Smith&#39;s &quot;Stay With Me&quot;<\/strong><br \/>\nNow, the song&#39;s credit on <b>ASCAP<\/b> features Smith along with Petty, Jeff Lynne and Jimmy Napes as the chief <b>songwriters<\/b>. Petty and Lynne will also receive a 12.5% writing credit. A source close to the case said that the settlement was done behind close <b>&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jambands.com\/news\/2015\/01\/26\/tom-petty-awarded-songwriting-royalties-for-sam-smith-s-stay-with-me\">jambands.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hornets Sports and Entertainment, Live Nation Announce Billy Joel<\/strong><br \/>\nJanuary 29, <b>2015<\/b>, Charlotte, NC \u2013 Live Nation announced today that legendary musician Billy Joel will perform at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC on Saturday, December 5, <b>2015<\/b>. &#8230; the genre of song as a vehicle of cultural understanding <b>&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/hornets\/hornets-sports-and-entertainment-live-nation-announce-billy-joel\">NBA.com (blog)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoundExchange Says It Paid 3 Million in Music Royalties Last Year The amount of royalties generated each year by the 15-year-old SoundExchange is now close [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}