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Doechii’s ‘Anxiety’ Pays Off for Sampled Artists Gotye, Luis Bonfá
Doechii's hit "Anxiety" will pay dividends to the publishers of Gotye's 2011 smash "Somebody That I Used To Know" and Bonfá's 1967 song "Seville."
Billboard estimates that the publishers of the Belgian-Australian indie rocker Gotye and the Brazilian born jazz-pop artist Luis Bonfá — whose 1967 hit “Seville” is sampled in “Somebody” — could earn as much as $72,000 each from the success of “Anxiety.” Billboard estimates that those streams, spins and sales of Doechii’s “Anxiety” have generated about $1.165 million in master recording and publishing revenues combined so far this year. DMG Clearances, which secured consent from the copyright holders of “Somebody That I Used to Know” for Doechii’s team, declined to comment on the terms of the licensing deals, citing confidentiality.
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