^ "Confusion Reigns After Jacquees' Remix Of Ella Mai's "Trip" Is Removed From SoundCloud & YouTube".^ "Ella Mai Broods in Intimate 'Trip' Video".1 On Rhythmic Songs Airplay Chart" from Billboard (December 19, 2018) ^ a b "Ella Mai Chart History (Hot 100)".^ a b "Official Singles Chart Top 100".^ "Ella Mai's "Boo'd Up" marks the return of female R&B singers".Ella Mai's label boss DJ Mustard later said that his label 10 Summers sent a cease and desist, claiming Jacquees had attempted to monetize the remix and accused him of "stealing" from 10 Summers. However, Jacquees' version was removed from both platforms on September 5. Jacquees remixĬash Money R&B singer Jacquees' "Quemix" of the track gained huge popularity, receiving millions of streams on YouTube and SoundCloud. Music videoĪn accompanying music video for the song premiered via Mai's Vevo channel on 18 September 2018. The single became her first number one on Billboard 's Rhythmic chart in its 22 December 2018 issue. The song was written by Mai, Varren Wade, Quinton, and Dijon MacFarlane. The song peaked at number 47 in the UK and number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. Jacquees you know where I’m at if you need work done in the future." Trip" is a song by English singer Ella Mai from her eponymous debut studio album. This is also why it’s always best to include your lawyer in with your business team to help avoid scenarios like this where it seems like Jacquees and Ella had a good relationship and he would like to work with her again in the future.
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Someone should have known this process and at minimum gotten the mechanical license for it to stay on SoundCloud and not have even wasted the time or money invested in what looked like a nice visual for a song you knew you didn’t have the sync rights for. ( By contrast Joe covering Adele’s Hello in a different genre with a different fan base likely would not have been a concern for Adele’s team in the even Joe didn’t get a mechanical license)Īt the end of the day this is really a learning lesson for Jacquees’ team seeing that he’s largely built his career off of cover songs. Where the enforcement become worthwhile is when an individual stands to generate significant revenue at the expense of the copyright owners which in this case at the point it was taken down Jacquees version he generated millions of streams and views.Īnother determining factor which will be another post at another time is the impact to the brand by having a “knock-off” or “cover” in the market at the same time you are trying to establish your brand.Īs a new artist Ella Mai’s team may have felt that the impact to her brand by having a cover compete in the same genre with a similar fan base was worth the enforcement. (Keep in mind it takes about 1 Million views to make $1,000 on YouTube) Just because you can legally do something does not mean a Music Label or Publisher will waste the time or money on having lawyers pull down a song that will get at best a few thousand streams or views. “Why are there millions of covers on youtube that don’t get pulled down just like this?” So it is a very high likelihood the publisher would have said no even if Jacquees’ team had gone through the appropriate steps and is 9 times out of 10 why the PUBLISHER likely at the behest of the label had Jacquees’ version removed from YouTube. In this case Ella Mai had yet to even release her own video to the single. The Publisher can or cannot at their own discretion give permission and also sets their own price. Permission to do THAT my friends can only be given by the songwriter and producer whose rights are enforced by what is called a Publisher. Once you combine a sound recording with a visual like Jacquees did to make this whole ass music video you need what is called a SYNC LICENSE to synchronize music and words with a video. So now with said mechanical license you can sing and cover your little heart out….but obviously someone dropped the ball on the 9cent license and is why Jacquees’ cover was likely removed from SoundCloud.īUT the music video is where things actually went really wrong. In order to reproduce a cover of the sound recording all you need to do is request what is called a mechanical license which by law MUST be given to you and only costs 9.1 cents. The actual song your ear hears is called the Master recording and is likely owned by the record label. So how do artists cover other people’s songs all the time and how was THIS different?įirst you need to understand song ownership.
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