Sia/ published by Sony ATV. Re-signed with them in 2015.

released about 6 months ago.

collaborative project / Labrinth, Sia and Diplo.

Songwriting share:

Sia Furler: 33.5%

Timothy McKenzie (Labrinth): 33.5%

Thomas Pentz (Diplo): 11%

Henry Allen (king Henry): 11%

Philip Meckseper (Jr Blender): 11%

Some stats:
YouTube: 294 million views [if $3 per 1000 views = $882 000; if $0.0074 - $217,560]

Spotify:
201 million stream [if $0.00437 = $878,370].

Also used for Samsung Galaxy ads/ partnership: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIJFqcizW4

[John W]

Post an audio clip and

Discuss some or all of the following - see examples on the right:

Songwriters - who wrote it? How was this split [if known]

Publishers - who published it?

Sales / streams of song - any evidence of how successful or otherwise the song has been - this could be measured in physical sales awards or streams on Spotify / YouTube etc.

Other uses of the song - Where else might it have generated income - has it been played live? Any cover versions or remixes ? Any syncs - i.e. uses in films, TV, games, adverts etc.

You will find some useful data on streaming services, Chart Metric, Setlist.FM and on the repertoire search for MLC you can often find data about writers and shares.

• Who has recorded it? (just one or many versions)

• Where has it been released? (label, online etc)

• Where has it been performed? (venues, tours, cover versions etc)

• How popular (or not) is it? 

• Where has it been used? (sync deals, use in films, adverts etc).

• What income is it likely to have generated and who for?

Originally released as a 7" single in 1993 on Sub Pop records. Later appeared on 'Refried Ectoplasm' compilation in 1995 on their own Duophonic label.

Written by founder members of the band, Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier.

Writing share is shared 50-50 : probably music by Gane, lyrics by Sadier.

Published by Domino Music and Universal Music.

"Moderate commercial success" according to Wikipedia.

One of many songs / albums the band released between 1991-2009.

Band toured throughout this period and resumed touring in 2019.

Lo Boob Oscillator is their 4th most played live song according to setlist.fm, spanning 1993-2023.

Their third most popular song on Spotify with just over 10 million plays.

177 496 YouTube views according to chartmetric.com

114 354 Shazam searches [46k of which in last month].

No registered cover versions.

Recently used in advert for Hotels.com driving the recent interest in it.

[John W]

Taken by MUNA is a song from their second album “Saves the World” which was released in 2019.

Songwriters: Katie Gavin, Naomi McPherson and Josette Maskin. The shares of the song were split 50/50 between MUNA and Universal Music. This left each member with approximately 16.6% each.

Publishers: WHEREISMUNA via Universal Music Corp.

Streams: 6.4million streams on Spotify. 398k Youtube video streams. Has been used in 67 TIKTOK videos.

Other uses of song: The re-recorded it as part of a “Live at Electric Lady Studio” EP — achieving a total of 413k streams. The cover takes a much more acoustic approach. The continue to sing the song regularly on their tours, most recently performing it at the Greek Theatre, LA.

Chateau (Feel Alright) by Djo comes from his first studio album ‘Twenty Twenty’ released in 2019. This song is one of three singles from this album (his first time releasing solo music under this alias).

The songwriting credits are solely given to Djo (Joe Keery)

As he released this album independently finding a publisher has been difficult, however I believe AWAL is his publisher.

His second highest number of streams on Spotify with 92,104,018. Rough Trade states that his ‘Twenty Twenty’ album has over 200 million streams to date.

The official Youtube video for the song has 3,460,576 views.

His official TikTok audio of the song has 11.9K uses.

Other uses of the song: this song became popular on TikTok a few years after its release, scrolling through the videos shows a lot of them being made in 2022.

He also performs the song during his live shows.

Lemon was released as a single in 2018 and later included on Kenshi Yonezu's fifth studio album, STRAY SHEEP.

Songwriters: Kenshi Yonezu

Publishers: Sony

Streams: It has over 180 million plays on Spotify and over 850 million views on YouTube.

Other uses of the song: Lemon is the TV soundtrack for the Japanese TV series "Unnatural Death". The director approached him with the idea of creating a song that would gently encompass the wounded. The themes of the TV series were related to death and forensics, and Kenshi Yonezu wanted to create a song that would make people pay attention to death, thus creating an echo of each other.

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