 you know year over year for the last seven years if you take that pie and you divvy it up into independent artists and major label artists the independent artist shares growing we are we are despite there being less money overall we're getting more of that money for indie artists than ever before and and when I say the pie I'm talking entirely about revenue from recorded music so that's royalties that is licensing it's you know it's a full transfer and sale of rights it's rights associated with intellectual property musical works um it doesn't include you know your merch your touring all of that stuff so it's important to note because you know when we say the music industry we're talking entirely about the money made from intellectual property