Well, I thought this was going to be about JB screwing over a writer... so at least it wasn't that. Pretty low numbers though. I wonder what Spotify would have looked like if it were on the list...
When they offered this songwriter some % of song royalties, they knew ahead of time that it wasn't going to be a whole lot of money.
Solution? Songwriters need a new metric to charge by.
One problem, though, is that perhaps songwriting isn't actually worth that much. When you look at a performer like Justin Beiber, how much of his income depends on specific songs that he's putting out? I'm not sure, but I don't necessarily think it's a large amount.
Source: royalty statements