Charles Chalekson

I haven’t laughed this hard in so long. Make sure you have your pee pad on. I have tears running down my leg. 😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@davidclowery Man... its almost like you should be in the music business!

Remember when music infustry commentators were mocking my suggestion that the Johnny Blue Skies album could sell 100,000 physical copies? First week it sold 59k. It went to #3. I based my estimate on his recent ticket sales, ticket prices and a proxy for merch sales. I guess everyone else relied on their “expertise.”

@davidclowery which one with which singer

Probably me

@davidclowery Makes me furious. I also would think if more artists I like can make a living, they would be more likely to create more music. It may be my imagination but it certainly seems like there is less new music from artists in general but what do I know.

How much does a songwriter like me get paid for a stream? Well it depends. Varies month to month and service to service. But the short story is... Each month you take 15.35% of the streaming service adjusted gross revenue call that "Tentative All in Pool 1" Then take 26.2% of the money that the streaming service paid to labels and distributors, but limited by a cap of $1.10 per subscriber. Call that "Tentative All in Pool 2." Then you choose the greater of those two and that is your "All in Pool." Next you subtract any monies paid to performing rights organizations (BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, GMR etc) and this becomes your "Payable Pool." But before we start splitting up the money, we need to check the "Alternate Payable Pool." The alternate payable pool is a "floor" calculation. it depends on whether your listening on a ad supported, subscription or bundled subscription, but usually its $0.60 x # of subscribers. That's your alternate payable pool. Now you choose the greater of the two payble pools and divide by the total number of streams that month. That give you a number somewhere in the range of $0.0005-$0.0009 per stream. So that's how much I get a stream. It's all in the US Copyright Office Copyright Royalty Board Proceedings, I can send you a link.

@davidclowery Isn't Joan Baez from Redlands? and Landon Donovan?

Probably me.

@BenStiller @Rightanglenews Pure awesomeness Ben. In light of todays incredible mean spirited tendencies for clicks, I like your approach

@Rightanglenews This was incredibly embarrassing. Also the miscalculation on the size of sample cups. Firing my entire publicity team and rethinking my approach to show business. Is there a way you can ask people not to share video?

BREAKING - The internet is absolutely mocking TDS-afflicted Hollywood actor Ben Stiller after he made a public appearance for his new soda brand, only for everyone to ignore him.

@1BethDutton Seems to me you are a bit selfish. If you recall over 1 million people died in the US alone.

Remember when they closed down all the small businesses and made us stand in line to grocery shop? This was six years ago today at our local Costco. Never forget what they did to us.

@TheMidgetSmith @Hot_Pepper76 Good for you.

@Hot_Pepper76 I worked at an AM radio station in Cadillac MI and sneaked them into the rotation (Heartbreak Beat 1987). My program director went ballistic. Oh well.

“Love My Way” (June 1982) Todd Rundgren produced the track and played the marimba in the studio recording. Do you remember this band's name?x.com/calmalgodown/s…

@11Yanks No surprises. This will be the first test of players he expects to perform and will test them. If they don’t and they are on the cusp they are off.

What do you think is gonna be the biggest surprise of this Roster?

OMG, SHUT DOWN DOGE: A DOGE official in his 20s testified today that he canceled federal research grants based on personal judgment. No peer review. No subject matter expertise. No formal process. Just him. And books he had read. He flagged a grant studying HIV in prisons during the Reagan and Clinton era — decades of academic research — as “one of the craziest” because it mentioned LGBTQ in the description. He flagged a grant examining the military service experiences of Black, Native American, female, and immigrant veterans as crazy. His qualification for making these calls: “A person can have enough judgment from reading books.” He was then asked if he regretted cutting programs that may have led to people dying. “No.” Did DOGE reduce the deficit? “No.” A person in their 20s. Reading books. Canceling peer-reviewed academic research. Deciding what knowledge the American government is allowed to fund. No experience. No regret. No results. Under oath.

@davidclowery I thought you were going to say “probably me”

I know plenty of artists. None of them shoplift.

@bariweiss @weijia CBS state media

CBS News is on quite a roll this week. And it’s only Wednesday. It started Monday with @weijia's conversation with President Trump. “I think the war is very complete, pretty much,” he told her. 🧵 cbsnews.com/news/trump-ira…

@_PiggyPie @TheSmart1onX @indexnforgetit No. You don’t.

@CChalekson @TheSmart1onX @indexnforgetit Depends on what the collections was sent.

Guy I work with told me he just doesn't pay medical bills Doctors appointments, surgeries, urgent care... none of it. Says he hasn't paid a single medical bill in 8+ years Says it doesn't count against credit because medical is usually deleted from reports when applying for loans Drives 2 brand new vehicles, has a big house, lives in good area... just doesn't pay any medical bills

@_PiggyPie @TheSmart1onX @indexnforgetit You don’t need a HIPPA release for billing purposes.

@TheSmart1onX @indexnforgetit Send a letter to the collection agency and the charging medical facility to ask for in writing where you signed a HIPPA release authorizing the medical facility to release your medical information to the collection agency. It's a violation of HIPPA if you didn't.

@covie_93 @ProjectLincoln Are we not men? @DEVO

The devolution of man:

@RepublicofTXSon @JVegas2013 @DrunkRepub @LeonSandoTXMN Oh and what do you have to do in your eyes to be considered “real”

@JVegas2013 @DrunkRepub @LeonSandoTXMN 100% he a total poser and nothing about him is real.

If a “Coexist” bumper sticker was a person

@ThatEricAlper Lone Justice

Bands who were made popular on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip: Van Halen The Doors Guns N' Roses Faster Pussycat The Byrds Steel Panther Whitesnake Jetboy Stryper Motley Crue Pretty Boy Floyd Buffalo Springfield Poison W.A.S.P. Quiet Riot Ratt Dokken BulletBoys Warrant L.A. Guns

@davidclowery Social media creates magical powers don’t you know??

Why are these idiots always telling me how the fucking music business, specifically songwriter royalties work? Songwriters can not collectively bargain. The Nashville Songwriters Association does not collectively bargain. I know the fucking executive director. Songwriter royalties except for sync are set by the Copyright Royalty Board, or BMI/ASCAP under the shadow of consent decree rate courts.

@GroovyBruce You are full of awesomeness. Power and thoughts to you, groovy guy.

@ChristopherBFay @soccerscouter @latsondheimer Kids spend more hours with their friends at school than club. Great if kids want to play at the highest level, but often they are trying to please their high pressure parents. Studies show high burnout levels at age 14-15

@CChalekson @soccerscouter @latsondheimer They make friends w/whatever team they’re on, & very few friendships from HS are maintained past college never mind 15 years on, Go play at the highest level you can for as long as you can unless some other compelling reason takes precedence (pasta parties w/friends don’t count)

Way to go MLS Next for ruining high school soccer in Southern California.