INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Kobalt EC-1, Part IVKobalt Music Group is driving the music industry to provide more transparency and faster royalty payments to
Competition and market size are headwinds in its future growth, however, and the incumbents are thriving not dying
songwriters built on top of it.This is Part IV of the Kobalt Music Group EC-1
Catch up on the prior posts in the series: Part I (founding story and overview), Part II (an operating system for the music industry), and
of recording artists earning tens of thousands of dollars per year in royalties
But as I outlined in my last article, this business is sandwiched between the countless artists who make very little money, and the global
superstars who are all owned by the big three labels
careers, professional songwriters can be categorized in just the two camps of middle class and stars.In each case, their core needs
are:Administration of their royaltiesMatchmaking to find the right co-writers and to find the right recording artist to actually record (or
