Written evidence submitted by Willowhayne Records

The majority of streaming providers pay per track (whatever the genre), so a track in the pop genre that lasts 2 or 3 minutes receives the same revenue as a classical movement, the majority of which are much longer. This does not put classical labels on an even playing field. Although IDagio and Primephonic do pay by track length, these services are still in their infancy.

You can see from the tables above that the streaming services are not paying nearly enough to their artists and labels – this will surely lead to the demise of smaller labels such as our group unless the current payment structure radically changes soon. There is a wealth of rarely or previously unrecorded classical that is often championed by smaller labels such as us, and this repertoire could remain unrecorded for the reasons given above.

We look forward to reading the Select Committee’s findings.

Mark Hartt-Palmer Willowhayne Records 13th November 2020 REPRESENTATION FROM WILLOWHAYNE RECORDS TO DCMS SELECT COMMITTEE

I am the Managing and Artistic Director of Willowhayne Records, an independent that was formed in 2012. We also represent a growing number of other independent labels (currently 28) for whom we offer distribution services.

Our has been handled by Naxos of America, since late 2016. They send us monthly digital reports in which every stream or download is reported to us – the current total number of rows stands at just under 950,000. A report that covers January to July 2020 data is shown below:

STREAMING Service Provider No. of Streams Average Payment per Track (pence) Amazon Premium 5769 0.0089 Amazon Prime Music 710 0.0048 61943 0.0095 AWA 35 0.0069 817 0.0031 3919 0.0040 Google Subscription 4369 0.0075 HighResAudio 76 0.0049 Idagio 3062 0.0141 iHeard OnDemand 1 0.0066 JIOSAAVN 1138 0.0030 KKBox 7334 0.0492 Naxos Music Library 10788 0.0431 Naxos Music Library Jazz 3 0.1312 Neurotic Music 368 0.0017 Pandora Media 12918 0.0180 Primephonic 465 0.0156 1900 0.0154 Rhapsody / 3394 0.0647 Roxi 5 0.0477 SAAVIN 764 0.0022 532284 0.0070 51487 0.0053 Yandex 3855 0.0013 YouTube Music 44108 0.0286

TRACK DOWNLOAD Service Provider No. of Downloads Average Payment per Track (pence) Amazon 39 0.3516 e-Onkyo 1 0.7795 Google Music 15 0.3344 iTunes 94 0.3306 J Pay 3 0.3619 Presto Classical 38 0.5132

ALBUM DOWNLOAD Service Provider No. of Downloads Average Payment per (£) Amazon mp3 25 3.2283 e-Onkyo 1 6.5379 Google Music 2 3.0493 HDTracks 3 5.3867 HighResAudio 11 4.89 iTunes 53 3.0863 Presto Classical 35 4.0168 ProStudioMasters 4 4.3390 Qobuz 9 4.50