Lady Gaga, Beyoncé + more - Songwriting Royalties

In November 2009, a song about a ringing phone and two of the biggest voices in pop arrived on Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster. "Telephone" topped the charts in six countries, reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was the fourth best-selling single in the world in 2010 at 7.4 million copies. Its nine-minute video became a short film of its own, and Billboard later called it the best music video of the decade.

Sixteen years on, the song is still in rotation, and streaming is why. The song's earnings have climbed every year since 2020 and now run roughly triple what they were in 2016. Reported plays went from 75 million in 2019 to 450 million in 2025, and have already passed 560 million through three quarters of 2026.

The last twelve months came to just over $10,200, up 29% from the year before. About a third of that came from the United States and the rest from 113 other countries, with the United Kingdom the largest of them at 18%. "Telephone" is 92% of the total, and the other 49 earning titles add range rather than weight.

For an investor, a fixed return determines how much you’ll earn. It leaves open how long it will take to get there. Every quarter of rising income shortens that wait and returns capital sooner. Sixteen years after its release, this song is played more now than ever.

Pop, R&B, and dance records cut between 2009 and 2016, several of them tied to film and television.

"Telephone" is the anchor, recorded by Lady Gaga with Beyoncé for The Fame Monster and certified 5x Platinum in the United States and 8x Platinum in Australia. Its nine-minute video remains one of the defining pop visuals of its decade.

Behind it, a handful of titles still earn at scale. "Kissed It" and "Lately" both come from Macy Gray's 2010 album The Sellout, the first pairing the Grammy-winning vocalist with Velvet Revolver. "Uncontrollable," recorded by Adrienne Bailon of 3LW and The Cheetah Girls, and "Available Tonight" both appear in the 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic and still earn from its television and streaming afterlife. "Fireball" is Willow's 2011 single with Nicki Minaj. "I Can Be" comes from Star, the Lee Daniels musical drama that ran three seasons on FOX from 2016.

The rest are smaller earners from the same era: "Hey Sexy Lady" by i SQUARE, "True Love" from Destinee & Paris, Havana Brown's "Better Not Said," and "The Other Guy" from Jesse McCartney's In Technicolor.

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