Video by WeAreTheMU via YouTube
It really shouldn’t take the best part of a century to generate the equivalent of one year’s income from music streaming
We’re campaigning for a change in the law to strengthen copyright to protect you and your work – and introduce music streaming royalties for non-featured artists at the same time
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Voice artist: Sean Donegan
🎶 Sirens by Ukiyo (De Wolfe Music)
* £39,039 ÷ £0.0025 per stream = 15.6 million streams
× 3 minutes = 46.8 million minutes
= 780,780 hours
= ~ 89 years
** UK Median gross annual earnings for full-time employees in 2025 were £39,039 – ONS
Video description: Starts with clip of former Liverpool FC manager Jurgen Klopp celebrating on the touchline with captions overlayed. Next line is delivered over a clip from the 9 to 5 movie. The next line is delivered over a clip of Jimi Hendrix shredding the guitar. The next line is delivered over a clip from Futurama, where the main character is frozen while the world outside his window evolves. The next line is delivered over a clip from Tom and Jerry, where Jerry has divided a cartoon steak so that he get’s the biggest portion and the other characters get a small amount. The video goes back to a Futurama clip where the main character is unfrozen and approaches a window to see “It’s time to fix streaming” in the sky.
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