labels — or money. people making it, people wanting it, orfighting over who has the rights to it. but often behind all the hit songs which you know and love are often a team of people you don't — musicians, producers and audio engineers all helping to make a track. for doing this, they earn royalties, money paid each time a track gets played on a streaming service, on the radio or on tv. in 2021 the uk music rights society, ppl, which collects this money, paid out £229 million of royalties to artists. but in the same year, the us music rights group mlc put aside a whopping $424 million of so—called black box money. the actual name for the black