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James Blake Partners With Subscription Service Vault to Address Streaming Royalty Issues for Artists
After a series of viral posts, James Blake has partnered with subscription service Vault to improve streaming royalty rates for artists.
Vault, whose motto is “What if making music was enough?,” approached Blake after his initial tweets went viral, and he describes their partnership as an “experiment” wherein he will charge listeners $5 per month for access to unreleased material. But his quiet demeanor cracked with a recent series of Instagrams that smartly addressed issues surrounding difficulties that artists face in earning a genuine living from their music. Though it’s not apparent how this latest move will contend with his contracts with UMe, Republic or Polydor, Blake said he has had to wait for six months or more at times “in order to get the green light to release his music.”
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