Send an auditor in and you will still find that no matter how much the label made, they still OWE money they didn’t pay to the artists.
Ruth Brown was among those who took Amet to task in the 1980s for not paying money owed on her Atlantic Recordings for decades.
Your songs may be hits, but you can still be famous and poor and even still own the works.
The industry is filled with crooks.
ASCAP is no different.
ASCAP and BMI have been called the music mafia for years now, and there is a reason why.