{"id":83168,"date":"2024-03-15T23:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/joe-alwyn-still-makes-money-for-taylor-swift-songwriting-credits\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T23:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:03:33","slug":"joe-alwyn-still-makes-money-for-taylor-swift-songwriting-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/joe-alwyn-still-makes-money-for-taylor-swift-songwriting-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Alwyn Still Makes Money for Taylor Swift Songwriting Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:100%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Jed Cullen\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images; Amy Sussman\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/joe-alwyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Joe Alwyn<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s love wasn\u2019t forever \u2014 but his financial gain from their time together might be.<\/p>\n<p>Alwyn, 33, cowrote six songs during his longtime relationship with Swift, 34, under the pseudonym William Bowery: \u201cExile\u201d and \u201cBetty\u201d from 2020\u2019s <em>Folklore<\/em>, \u201cChampagne Problems,\u201d \u201cEvermore\u201d and \u201cConey Island\u201d from its sister album, <em>Evermore<\/em>, and \u201cSweet Nothing\u201d from 2022\u2019s <em>Midnights<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their 2023 split, Alwyn is still raking in money thanks to his writing credits, with multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12057865\/Taylor-Swifts-ex-Joe-Alwyn-continue-rake-money-songs-wrote-her.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outlets<\/a> reporting that the actor will make \u201ca five-figure sum every year\u201d for his contributions to Swift\u2019s discography.<\/p>\n<p>Alwyn has already reportedly made about $2.3 million for Spotify streams alone, according to an analysis by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/taylor-swifts-ex-joe-not-worried-about-money-after-split\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Life &amp; Style<\/em><\/a> earlier this month. He will continually earn money from additional streaming and any of Swift\u2019s live performances where the songs are included, an industry source told the outlet. Swift\u2019s <em>Eras Tour<\/em> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/taylor-swift-is-a-billionaire-thanks-to-her-eras-tour-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grossed $1 billion<\/a>, and Alwyn is likely a small piece of the financial pie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/taylor-swift-and-joe-alwyn-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/joe-alwyn-taylor-swift-9.jpg?crop=0px%2C23px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/joe-alwyn-taylor-swift-9.jpg?quality=40&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/taylor-swift-and-joe-alwyn-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn&#8217;s Relationship Timeline<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tThey\u2019re so gorgeous! Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn kept their romance relatively private, but there were plenty of milestones to look back on prior to their April 2023 split. Swift\u2019s relationship with the U.K. native was made public in May 2017. One year later, a source told Us Weekly exclusively that the \u201cCardigan\u201d singer believed [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFair or not, it\u2019s made him a very rich guy,\u201d the source told <em>L&amp;S<\/em>. \u201cJoe is making so much on royalties and returns from [Taylor\u2019s] Eras Tour that he doesn\u2019t ever need to worry about money again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans were quick to decode Alwyn\u2019s pen name, William Bowery, on Swift\u2019s <em>Folklore<\/em> album, and the singer later confirmed her then-boyfriend was the mystery writer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came in and I was like, \u2018Hey, this could be really weird, and we could hate this, [but] because we\u2019re in quarantine and there\u2019s nothing else going on, could we just try to see what it\u2019s like if we write this song together?&#8217;\u201d Swift said during her 2020 Disney+ film, <em>Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Swift said Alwyn wrote the \u201centire piano part\u201d for \u201cExile,\u201d recalling, \u201cHe was just singing it, the way that the whole first verse is \u2026 I was entranced and asked if we could keep writing that one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Alwyn\u2019s work with Swift <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/artists\/joe-alwyn\/298064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earned<\/a> him music\u2019s biggest honor in 2021 after <em>Folklore<\/em> won Album of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. While on stage, Swift gave a rare shout-out to her then-boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe is the first person that I play every single song that I write, and I had the best time writing songs with you in quarantine,\u201d she said while accepting the Grammy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Swift previously admitted she didn\u2019t think she would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/joe-alwyn-isnt-going-to-write-more-songs-with-gf-taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ever collaborated<\/a> with Alwyn if it weren\u2019t for the circumstances of being stuck at home together amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s always just playing instruments and he doesn\u2019t do it in a strategic \u2018I\u2019m writing a song right now\u2019 thing,\u201d Swift said of Alwyn during a December 2020 interview with Apple Music\u2019s <strong>Zane Lowe<\/strong>. \u201cHe\u2019s always done that. But do I think we would have taken the step of, \u2018Hey, let\u2019s see if there\u2019s a song in here. Let\u2019s write a song together\u2019 if we hadn\u2019t been in lockdown? I don\u2019t think that would have happened, but I\u2019m so glad that it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift and Alwyn split in April 2023 after six years of dating. Swift has since moved on with Kansas City Chiefs tight end <strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong>, while Alwyn sparked dating rumors with <em>The Brutalist<\/em> costar<strong> Emma Laird<\/strong> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/joe-alwyn-still-makes-money-for-taylor-swift-songwriting-credits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jed Cullen\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images; Amy Sussman\/Getty Images Joe Alwyn and Taylor Swift\u2019s love wasn\u2019t forever \u2014 but his financial gain from their time together might be. Alwyn, 33, cowrote six songs during his longtime relationship with Swift, 34, under the pseudonym William Bowery: \u201cExile\u201d and \u201cBetty\u201d from 2020\u2019s Folklore, \u201cChampagne Problems,\u201d \u201cEvermore\u201d and \u201cConey Island\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}