The late duo responsible for ’The Sound of Music’ will reap 90 percent of the song’s royalties.
Ariana Grande‘s single “7 Rings” is on pace to become one of the highest-performing hits of her young career. On Monday, the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the sixth time, beating out Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” and Halsey’s “Without Me.” As of Tuesday, the song has been streamed more than a billion times. Yet while Grande is certainly making a good chunk of cash off of the record, the vast majority of the songwriting royalties are being collected by two men who have each been dead for more than 40 years.
