royalties
Example Sentences
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Spotify touts the fact that more than 13,000 artists now generate at least $100,000 in royalties a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"It's undoubtedly better than before. Before, this oil wasn't being extracted; if no one extracts it, no one pays royalties, and no one profits from it," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Without her example, would Taylor Swift have stood up to the hedge funds who bought her back catalogue, re-recording her biggest hits to rob them of royalties?
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
After Whitney Houston scored a massive hit with “I Will Always Love You” in the early 1990s, she invested some of her royalties from the song in a Black neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
True, our royalties were small or less than small, but that did not matter.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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