British artists profit more from vinyl sales than YouTube licensing
By John Glenday
British artists have hit out at a discrepancy in their income streams which sees many make more money from the sale of resurgent vinyl records than they do from the ‘meagre’ royalties on offer from YouTube.
Vinyl sales have surged for the eighth year on the trot in the UK on the back of a hipster fuelled nostalgia wave with more than 2m of the outsized discs sold in the UK in 2015, the highest figure since 1994.
This dovetails with the growing global popularity of British artists who now account for one in six of all record sales internationally – a Read full story ›
Source: The Drum




