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SoundExchange Still Not Paying Arcade Fire, Fleetwood Mac, N.W.A, Eazy-E, Jimi Hendrix, Motörhead, Jerry Garcia, and 100+ Other Artists

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by Paul Resnikoff

SoundExchange Still Not Paying Arcade Fire, Fleetwood Mac, N.W.A, Eazy-E, Jimi Hendrix, Motörhead, Jerry Garcia, and 100+ Other Artists

If you want to fix the music industry, here’s one place to start: SoundExchange.

SoundExchange is a music industry organization tasked with administering hundreds of millions in royalties from Pandora, Sirius XM Radio, iHeartRadio, and nearly every internet radio platform in the US.  Yet SoundExchange remains totally unknown by many of the largest artists in the world.

Like these 125 artists, who are receiving nothing from SoundExchange because they aren’t even registered, based on a few hours of searching Digital Music News on SoundExchange’s own website.  That is just a small percentage of the tens of thousands of artists (or even more) not getting paid, and part of the reason why an estimated 20-50 percent of royalties never reach the artist.

This list represents millions in unpaid royalties, most of which is kept by SoundExchange (or even paid out to large music companies) if not claimed.

  1. N.W.A
  2. 3rd Bass
  3. Chet Faker
  4. Arcade Fire
  5.  Andy Gibb
  6. Anthrax
  7. Artifacts
  8. Atoms for Peace
  9. Astor Piazzolla
  10. Bad English
  11. Berlin
  12. Big Audio Dynamite
  13. Fleetwood Mac
  14. Big Tent Revival
  15. Billy Thorpe
  16. Billy ‘The Kid’ Emerson
  17. Black Flag
  18. Blackalicious
  19. Body Count
  20. Booker T. & the M.G.’s
  21. Boston
  22. Buffalo Springfield
  23. Buzzcocks
  24. C+C Music Factory
  25. Catherine Wheel
  26. Charli Baltimore
  27. Chet Baker Quartet
  28. Chris Tucker
  29. Cliff Richard & the Drifters
  30. Cocteau Twins
  31. Corrosion of Conformity
  32. Crazy Town
  33. Da Lench Mob
  34. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
  35. Das EFX
  36. Dee Dee Ramone
  37. Deep Purple
  38. DJ Clue
  39. Dirty Vegas
  40. Dokken
  41. Don Johnson
  42. Eazy-E
  43. Eddy Grant
  44. Eddie Fisher
  45. Empire Brass Quintet
  46. Faith No More
  47. Falco
  48. Faster Pussycat
  49. Fleet Foxes
  50. Flipmode Squad
  51. Force MD’s
  52. Folk Implosion
  53. Fred Astaire
  54. Gary Lewis & the Playboys
  55. Geto Boys
  56. Girl Talk
  57. God Street Wine
  58. Grand Master Flash
  59. Goodie Mob
  60. Heart
  61. H-Town
  62. iamamiwhoami
  63. Insane Clown Posse
  64. Jerry Garcia
  65. Jets to Brazil
  66. Jethro Tull
  67. Junior M.A.F.I.A.
  68. Kriss Kross
  69. L.A. Guns
  70. LFO
  71. Long Beach Dub Allstars
  72. Lost Boyz
  73. Milky Chance
  74. Milli Vanilli
  75. Motorhead
  76. Mott the Hoople
  77. Main Source
  78. Massive Attack
  79. MC5
  80. Melvins
  81. Men at Work
  82. N.E.R.D.
  83. New Bomb Turks
  84. New Edition
  85. Nick Cave
  86. Nightmares on Wax
  87. Primitive Radio Gods
  88. Ratt
  89. Samiam
  90. Santana
  91. Scream
  92. Sebadoh
  93. Seattle Symphony Orchestra
  94. Showbiz & A.G.
  95. Shudder to Think
  96. Simple Minds
  97. Siouxsie & the Banshees
  98. Slum Village
  99. Soul Coughing
  100. Survivor
  101. Tame Impala
  102. The Afghan Whigs
  103. the Beatnuts
  104. The Carter Family
  105. The Clash
  106. The Flying Burrito Brothers
  107. The Jerry Garcia Band
  108. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  109. The Lox
  110. The Ohio Players
  111. The O’Jays
  112. The Partridge Family
  113. The Pharcyde
  114. The Platters
  115. The Power Station
  116. The Samples
  117. The Spinners
  118. The Temptations
  119. The Three Tenors
  120. The Yardbirds
  121. Thompson Twins
  122. Traffic
  123. Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
  124. Vienna Symphony Orchestra
  125. War

Think you may be owed money from internet radio plays? Check the list on SoundExchange’s site.

Image by William Ross, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC by 2.o).

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