Meek Mill + Vory - Songwriter Royalties

One dollar. That’s the difference between what “1942 Flows” paid over the last twelve months ($6,178) and the twelve months before ($6,177). More than nine years after release, this Meek Mill catalog is doing what investors want from a royalty asset: paying the same money, quarter after quarter.

The asset holds the songwriter’s share of BMI public performance royalties on four songs. Three come from Wins & Losses, the 2017 album that debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. The fourth comes from Lost Souls, the 2022 debut from Vory, the Grammy-winning writer signed to Meek’s Dream Chasers label. Every stream, broadcast and public play of these songs pays into it.

Total income came in at $7,143 over the last twelve months against $7,267 the year before, a difference of 1.7% across eight consecutive quarterly statements. Apple Music drives 56% of that income and has paid between $963 and $1,068 in each of the last five quarters. Apple Music sells subscriptions only, so every one of those dollars traces back to a paying listener. Spotify grew in each of those same five quarters and finished the year up 62%.

Meek Mill has spent fifteen years building a loyal audience, with seven top-ten albums on the Billboard 200 and two No. 1s. He’s headlining arena dates through the end of 2026, including a hometown show at Philadelphia’s Xfinity Mobile Arena, which keeps this catalog in front of the fans who stream it.

Philadelphia’s Meek Mill rose through his Dreamchasers mixtapes before signing to Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group. He has since placed seven albums in the Billboard 200 top ten, and two that hit No. 1. Wins & Losses, his third studio album, arrived July 21, 2017 and debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 102,000 album-equivalent units. This catalog holds three of its songs. “1942 Flows,” the catalog’s top earner, is a reflective track that became a single in April 2018 with a Spike Jordan-directed video that cut together footage of the #FreeMeekMill protests in Philadelphia while he was in prison. “Save Me” and “Issues” round out the album’s contribution.

Vory wrote “Not My Friends,” from Lost Souls, his debut studio album, released June 3, 2022 through Dream Chasers and UMG Recordings. Raised in Louisville, Vory first made his name as a songwriter for some of hip-hop and R&B’s biggest artists and won a Grammy for his work on The Carters’ Everything Is Love. Lost Souls reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart and drew positive reviews.