Diddy pays sting $2000 a day.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K1o27KQS7HA
>>123652720Puff didn't want that heat with the police, ya feel me? Fuck lil sauce money gon do.
I like the story behind the lyrics of Every Breath You Take, apparently it was a stalker note Sting had received and he thought it was so based that he worked it into that song.
>>123652720that's 730,000 a year
>>123652813you could say he's being "Stung"
>>123652720Fully deserved. What is Missing You without Sting’s chorus and melodic hook? Diddy’s godawful mumbling?crazy that rock acts get raked out over the coals about 4 chords in a vaguely similar order, yet rappers make millions off shit like this.
rapsisters..... I thought rap was music?
>>123652720>pay some uknown DJ to make a catchy tune for you>the DJ becomes more famous and you make bucks out of it>instead waste money with a shitty song from the 80s for the rest of your lifethe music industry is such a joke
copyright law does seem a bit ridiculous when you see how much iconic songs and films blatently just took things from others
>>123652720Fun fact Diddy had all his verses ghost written. He didn't even write the "tribute song" to his "friend".
>>123653197>Fun fact [..]Zoomers are an embarrassment
>>123652720presumably Andy Summers gets performance royalties from it too
>>123653163>>instead waste money with a shitty song from the 80s for the rest of your lifethe royalties come from sales of the song; he's paying a percentage of each unit sold, not a fixed monthly fee for licensing. he's not "paying" sting anything out of his pocket.
the virgin i'll be missing you vs the Chad (See You At The) Crossroads
>>123653401….kind of. Even though the riff is an essential part of the song, Andy is not listed as a songwriter on Every Breath You Take. Only Sting. However, Sting does give 15 percent of his Police royalties to Andy and another 15 percent to Stewart. Andy was making noises like he was going to go to court this year with Sting about it, but everyone’s seemed to calm down. It’s probably fine, they did get together to release the Synchronicity demos a few months back, so I’m sure they talked. Both Andy and Stewart have plenty of money.
>>123652720>Interestingly, Puff Daddy never asked permission to sample “Every Breath You Take,” and the whole dispute ended up in court. As a result, Sting now receives 100 percent of the royalties from the song. This is due to him being the only songwriter listed on the track. >So, what kind of royalties does Sting get from “I’ll Be Missing You”? According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, Sting reportedly earns about $2,000 a day in royalties from that song alone. This figure is actually disputed by Puff Daddy, who is now known as Diddy. In April, he shared via X (formerly Twitter) that Sting actually receives $5,000 a day from the royalties from “I’ll Be Missing You.”
>>123652776yah that's what made the tribute to Biggie so fucking cringe."Every Breath You Take" is not, in any sense, a love song. It's a creepy stalker song with pretty background music which makes it even more creepy.
>>123652720Serious question, what would happen if he just stopped paying him? Would the courts order him to just pay harder?
>>123656886Diddy isn't paying him, the money goes straight to Stings publisher. Top tier passive income.Shape Of My Heart is an even bigger money spinner, word is he took most of the royalties for all these songs:>The song's guitar riff was also sampled by Nas for his track "The Message" in 1996 and Monica on her 1998 song "Take Him Back". It was also sampled by Avicii, for his track "Forever Yours". The song was released after his death, with Sumner and Miller credited as songwriters.[5] It was also interpolated on Hikaru Utada's debut album First Love,[6] the best-selling Japanese album of all time; Juice WRLD on the worldwide hit "Lucid Dreams" (2018); on "You’re Mines Still" (2020) by rapper BLEU and in "Parkstone Drive" by Russ.[7]
>>123654435Blackino
>>123657036can black people ever come up with their own (good) music?
sean combs aka puff daddy.aka p diddy.aka diddy.aka PD.aka "love"
>>123654660>>123652720Sting sold his rights, so he himself is not getting paid. It's going to whoever bought his songs.
fuck Diddy and fuck Sting I just wanna know how much Stewart got from the Spyro games. I can't imagine it was a lot
>>123658281The whole Soul movement, with James Brown and Curtis Mayfield and guys like that. Actual African traditional music is good too.
>>123653000hsha like its a Sting lol
>>123653105Actually Missing You is constructed based on the guitar riff from Every Breath You Take which was not created by Sting. It was made by Andy Summers.But Sting refused to give any songwriting credits to anyone else, so he keeps getting royalties to this day for Missing You even though that song is based on Summers' riff, not on his vocal or melodic parts.The outcome is that Sting today lives in a mansion in Italy next to a vineyard, living the large comfy life. While Summers probably barely survives in some flat or modest house.
>>123662830hello andy summers
>>123662866Rot in hell Gordon hope you choke on a bone in that villa of yours
>>123654660>Puff Daddy never asked permission to sample “Every Breath You Take,”Dumbass. He was just asking to get sued.
>>123662830the riff is just a chord progression played in single notes and Sting would've came up with the progression first when he wrote it. It absolutely doesn't warrant writing credits.
>>123662830>While Summers probably barely survivesHe's probably played 5 times the amount of shows sting has
>>123652720buckbroken
We need to end copyright
>>123663206Summers came up with an iconic pattern which is what most people first remember from the song.The riff is a very unique and specific string of notes, done in a muffled arpeggiated style. It's actually not so simple or straightforward to come up with that. Have you tried playing it? It's not just simply playing with the notes of the basic major chords from the song. It reaches to unusual notes and is very difficult to play.Sting doesn't even play the correct riff when he performs this song because it's too hard for him, he just does the basic shit that sounds in tune with the melody.But the radio/streams album version you hear is Summers' riff and that one was used by Diddy for "his" hit. He just added some choir RNB improvisation vocals on top of that riff.I think Summers would have deserved at least 15% of the credits. It's not just a regular riff, it's one of the most memorable in the history of popular music.
>>123663308Yeah but that's because he had no choice but to be a session guitarist, since he's not rich like Sting
>>123663408you're being modest. The riff was totally original and Andy deserves 100% of the credit for that song.Also, why the fuck does Missing You generate so much in royalties? I've heard this royalties story about Missing You, but never any other song. It apparently spent 11 weeks as the number 1 single, but I never hear it played in public or in movies or referenced anywhere. Never in my lifetime have I heard someone list it as one of their favorite songs.Is it really that profitable? How much do Hey Ya or Crazy in Love or Empire State of Mind or You Don't Know You're Beautiful generate?
>>123663408I have played it and yes it's a cool riff, but you're over-estimating how unique or hard it is. Like I said, it comes from a chord progression and Sting himself would've already done most of the work in terms of composing. Andy just hears the progression and goes from there. If Andy came up with the riff first on his own and gave it to sting to work out a song, then yes that deserves a writing credit.
>>123663525>It apparently spent 11 weeks as the number 1 single, but I never hear it played in public or in movies or referenced anywherehow old are you? I'm 26 and I used to hear it at the grocery all the time when I was younger
>>123663525>The riff was totally original and Andy deserves 100% of the credit for that song.Nothing is stopping him from taking Sting to court for credits, especially since it's public knowledge that he wrote the riff. He doesn't because that's not how writing credits work and they obviously came to an agreement when they made the song.
>>123663533I turn 25 this week, which is also a grim reminder of how much I've wasted my life.I don't really remember the popular music of my childhood. I remember David Guetta, Akon, Big Sean, the rugrats song who let the dogs out, Gwen Stefani, Fergie, "I'm hot and U not", Crank dat Soulja boy, Black Eyed Peas, Outkast.In other words I remember stuff from 2004-2007 but nothing earlier.
why is andy summers posting on /mu/
>>123663553I agree I'm just saying it's clear that Andy Summers came up with a cool original riff without Sting's input. Not that he has the legal right to it.>>123663533also, whether or not it was played a lot in the 90s and 00s, my point was there are still plenty of singles from that era that get regularly played in the 2020s, like Hey YaIf Missing You generates $2k a day, Hey Ya must generate $20k
>>123652720yeah but if you did the math, the song most likely pays for itself everyday
>>123663553He can't sue anymore because once the song credits were established when the album was published and they went 100% to Sting, it means there was an implicit acknowledgement by Summers that he had no claim.Trying to reverse that kind of stuff is very hard, it usually doesn't work and I doubt he has the money to throw away if nothing comes out of it.I think Summers publicly suggested he should get something just because Diddy's hit is all based on the chord progression and doesn't use much from the rest of the song, but Sting basically said: fuck off I'm not giving you anything.
>>123652720>emergency situation>phone the police>Sting shows up with his bass and starts singing
>>123654560Since Plice, Copeland has made a bunch of movie soundtracks and music for the Spyro game.
$2000 a day? that's gotta sting! (bad joke)
>>123663703>I doubt he has the money to throw away if nothing comes out of it.are you the same retard who said previously that Andy is some poor musician who lives middle class while Sting has his mansions? You realize they had a very successful reunion tour 15 years ago that made hundreds of millions and he got a good chunk of that. He also still made royalties off that song plus all other police songs and albums despite not being a songwriter. You still get mechanical royalties for being a band member on the songs. Google says he's worth 100 million.
>>123653000>>123662277I don’t get it
>>123654560Any source for that info?All I can find is from 2021 when both Summers and Copeland were saying they didn't get anything from the Missing You royaltiesThen later Sting sold his catalogue, so now he's probably just waving at them from his Italian villa.
>>123653000>>123662277>>123663812That's gotta STING>>123663824Just bee urself
>>123652720Sad Diddy is sad
>>123663525I hear both versions all the fucking time. It's one of the most spun The Police song, their most listened on Spotify with +2 billion plays.
>>123652720Sting the wrestler should really make sting pay for using his name I know I sure would
>>123663824A sting is a covert operation to expose a criminal.
>>123660457This concept is beyond insane to me. The purpose of copyright is supposed to be to make sure that artists and inventors can profit off of theri work before it's absorbed into culture/technology and then built upon. In its actual usage, copyright exists to keep humanity locked in a mire of stagnation.
>>123664951Sting and Sting are bros
>>123653000
>>123653105>crazy that rock acts get raked out over the coals about 4 chords in a vaguely similar order, yet rappers make millions off shit like this.Yes, because 2.5 generations have been brainwashed into thinking “mumbling negro” is the apex of musical art.
>>123667280BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASSSSS
