This week’s concert report is all about the X-Factor girl bands. Little Mix spent the spring touring around the UK, Ireland and even Singapore. Meanwhile, Fifth Harmony spent the first week of this month visiting South America. Both groups headlined with no mention of openers.
In other news, Taylor Swift had another bad break-up with a guy, but in new news, she’s making headlines for the song she wrote BEFORE the break-up. Turns out that Taylor Swift co-wrote Calvin Harris’s latest hit (featuring Rihanna) under a Swedish pseudonym. There has been some chirping back in forth the last two days with Taylor’s people implying stuff and Harris throwing shade (situation normal for a Taylor break-up), but all of this generated enough interest for Billboard to peak behind the curtain as to how revenue gets shared in the music biz. As an added bonus for us reality singing competitor fans, the article had an embedded performance (Billboard Patch) by Emblem3 (they would like me to remind you that they are not a boy band).
Okay, so here is the breakdown for “This is What You Came For”:
Publishing Revenue:
Radio: 129K spins = $323K
Sales: 743K downloads = $68K
Streaming: 108M streams = $112K
Total: $511K
Performing Rights (ASCAP/BMI/PRS) organizations take 13% = $454,704
Assume 50/50 split on co-writing = $227,352 per publishing company
Assume 85% of Publishing since they own their companies: $193K
(Sony gets the other 34K)
Harris is an artist on the track, so he gets some of the Performance/Artist Royalties.
Performance Revenue (sales+streams): $1.2M
Assume 22% Royalty: $272K
Harris is also the producer, so he gets 4 points out of the 22% Artist Royalty and the remaining 18% gets split between him and Rihanna.
Assume 50% Split:
Harris: $161K (111K for Artist, 50K for Producer)
Rihanna: $111K
Totals:
Harris: $354K
Swift: $193K
Rihanna: $111K
That is our math for today.
Little Mix
March 22, April 14, 21, 2016: Liverpool, U.K.: Echo Arena: 29,482 of 31,997 (3×92%): $1,512,194
March 17, April 9, 16, 2016: Newcastle, U.K.: Metro Radio Arena: 28,289 of 29,944 (3×94%): $1,456,597
April 3, 2016: Birmingham, U.K.: Genting Arena: 25,099 of 27,758 (90%): $1,265,772
April 2, 23, 2016: Sheffield, U.K.: Sheffield Arena: 24,380 of 25,577 (2×95%): $1,234,548
March 26, April 15, 2016: Leeds, U.K.: First Direct Arena: 22,325 of 24,378 (2×92%): $1,139,993
March 30-April 18, 2016: Dublin, Ireland: 3Arena: 17,709 of 18,265 (97%): $864,134
March 23, April 8, 2016: Nottingham, U.K.: Capital FM Arena: 15,685 of 18,479 (2×85%): $811,104
March 18, 2016: Birmingham, U.K.: Genting Arena: 12,229 of 13,819 (88%): $627,503
April 22, 2016: London, U.K.: SSE Arena: 10,554 of 12,434 (85%): $578,370
March 13, 28, 2016: Cardiff, U.K.: Motorpoint Arena: 9,634 of 9,866 (1 SOLD-OUT, 1×95%): $520,647
April 11-12, 2016: Aberdeen, U.K.: Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre: 8,920 of 9,560 (2×93%): $493,502
May 23, 2016: Singapore: The Star Theatre: 3,715 of 3,715 (SOLD-OUT): $241,475
Fifth Harmony
July 5, 2016: Sao Paulo, Brazil: Espaco das Americas: 7,422 of 7,422 (SOLD-OUT): $445,402
July 3, 2016: Brasilia, Brazil: Net Live: 4,600 of 4,600 (SOLD-OUT): $252,559
July 1, 2016: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Vivo Rio: 3,686 of 3,686 (SOLD-OUT): $247,629
