All About The Bass, The Stream, And The Revenue

Alright then, a quick music business question, If you co-wrote ‘All About The Bass’ how much do you think, over the song’s lifetime, you would have earned from streaming music services?

Try $5,679.

“I’ve never heard a songwriter complain about radio royalties as much as streaming royalties,” Kadish said. “That was the real issue for us, like 1 million streams equals $90. For a song like ‘All About That Bass,’ that I wrote, which had 178 million streams. I mean $5,679? That’s my share. That’s as big a song as a songwriter can have in their career and No. 1 in 78 countries. But you’re making $5,600. How do you feed your family?”

That’s from producer and songwriter Kevin Kadish. More from that hotbed of music news, The Tennessean.