In the often-complicated realm of song splits, producers like Nigro - who has worked with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Lewis Capaldi, Carly Rae Jepsen and Finneas - can get more than a standard share when they co-write. One informed source confirms that the two songwriting camps had been in touch with each other before the song was released. Given that this retroactive credit is based on an interpolation, rather than outright lifting the song, giving up half of that income seems generous. Multiple sources confirm that Rodrigo’s camp is giving a 50/50 split to the two Paramore members, but splits aren’t necessarily divided evenly. Now, with Williams and Farro added to the credits, Warner Chappell Music has a piece of this, too.Īfter you bake off the publisher’s share, the remaining $700,000 gets split between the writers, which now number four. Half of that goes to whatever publishers are involved in this case, Sony Music Publishing represents Rodrigo and Dan Nigro, the producer who co-wrote eight of the 11 songs on the album “Sour,” “Good” among them. While there’s definite upside ahead for “Good 4 U,” remember that the estimated $1.4 million doesn’t belong to Rodrigo alone. They’ll pay for those hit songs, so sometimes you see those worths jump up after the fact.” Such sync use can spur a second life for the song on streaming services and even radio. “We all know that great advertisers love the fact that if your head is down on a different device, and you hear a hit song on the television, you pick your head up.

“A year after a song peaks at radio, you can go get $250,000 or half a million in sync for a song that is so recognizable,” says the aforementioned music publishing exec. Hull said it wasn’t possible to predict the inevitable sync revenue this song will generate from use in ads or placements on film or TV. 6 at Apple Music, but neither of those share play counts. 5 on Spotify’s global chart on 31.6 million spins it also ranked No. That estimate does not take into consideration the revenue that she’s made outside the U.S. consumption of “Good 4 U” at more than $1.4 million. Using informed assumptions of how much each transaction would pay, Christopher Hull, partner and co-practice leader at Citrin Cooperman, roughly estimates the publisher and writer royalties for U.S. Olivia Rodrigo Adds Paramore to Songwriting Credits on 'Good 4 U' Kanye West's 'Donda' Beats Olivia Rodrigo for 2021's Most-Streamed Album in 24 Hours on Spotify Olivia Rodrigo Heads Off Trippie Redd, Lorde to Top Album Chart Again

However, fans had long pointed out similarities between the song and Paramore’s 2007 hit “Misery Business,” creating multiple mash-ups online, and a source close to the situation recently told Variety that the credit is actually an interpolation - which is essentially an element of a previously recorded song re-recorded and incorporated into a new song - and that the two parties were in touch before “Good 4 U” was released 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May, when her album “Sour” also started at No. The Disney star/singer’s song bowed at No. UPDATED: Once news broke that Olivia Rodrigo had added members of Paramore to songwriting credits on her summer smash “Good 4 U,” observers immediately began calculating what that meant for Hayley Williams and Josh Farro, the credited members of the long-running group, who are now in line to own half of the hit’s royalties.

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