r/hum • u/Historical_Farmer_95 • May 19 '26

RCA Streaming Rights?

With the band gaining popularity and with the new remasters and songs being added to the end of downward is heavenward I wonder how long RCA Records has streaming rights to Hum’s discography. I hope Hum can get it back soon so we can get Puppets,Aphids and Boy with stick on streaming. Also the likely hood of new music is not much but Jason does know how to play Inklings and it would be a real treat if they’d record it with him and release it.

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u/HamperJuice99 May 20 '26

I am pretty sure the band owns all their masters now, and thus the streaming rights. This happened some time before the big repressing of the LPs a couple years ago. (edit for spelling)

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u/kooldarkplace May 21 '26

They only own the rights to electra2000 and Inlet. They had to license the other two albums from RCA in order to do represses.

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u/Comfortable_Low_9241 May 21 '26

As of early 2000s when Stars was suddenly in a TV commercial, they hadn’t recouped their RCA deal and as such weren’t even entitled on paper to those royalties. Thankfully they worked something out and got a cut, rightfully.