Paramore 'Friends & Fans' To Receive Royalty Payments For New Merch Designs
In addition to the typically received flat fee.
Paramore @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre (Credit: Zachary Gray)
Paramore have updated their merchandise store, adding items designed by “friends and fans.”
The merch store includes a black hoodie with the band’s name printed in death metal font, t-shirts with inside jokes, jumpers, cards, and zines. The band chose designs by its guitarist, Brian Robert Jones, as well as fans CJ Pangindian, Eleanor Osada, and Ilaria Palmieri.
Included on the band’s website under Collaboration Merch is the message atop the collection: “All artists featured will be paid both a flat fee for their design as well as a royalty on each item of theirs that is sold.”
The band added in a separate statement, “All of the new merch items available on our site were designed by Paramore friends & fans. It means a lot to be able to represent our fan community via fan-designed items. So many of you are mega-talented, and we hope to continue featuring your talent in ways like this moving forward.
“We've also decided that any contributing artists should receive a royalty whenever their items are purchased through our official online store. That will be in addition to a flat fee paid for their designs.”
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Paramore thank their fans for supporting them through the year, and welcome any new fans from the Eras Tour!
— 🏁 (@concertleaks) November 25, 2024
They will also now be offering royalties to their merch designers, in addition to the flat fee paid for their designs!
🛍️: https://t.co/JKh3nz0Rkm pic.twitter.com/ep4bVVWjyu
On X (formerly known as Twitter), Eleanor Osada said of the band’s decision to give designers royalty payments for their work, “I also cannot express how AMAZING it is that Paramore are cutting us royalties for these merch designs. I believe [singer] Hayley [Williams] has been fighting for this for some time now, and that’s very, very telling of the sort of people they are. Paramore forever.”
i also cannot express how AMAZING it is that paramore are cutting us royalties for these merch designs. i believe hayley has been fighting for this for some time now, and that’s very very telling of the sort of people they are. paramore forever 🧡
— eleanor (@elearor) November 25, 2024
You can check out the Collaboration Merch designs below and make your purchase here.
Earlier this year, Paramore made Grammy history by becoming the first female-fronted rock band to win the Best Rock Album award.
This Is Why, the band’s sixth studio album (and final record to be released under Atlantic), was released last February. The band toured the album Down Under last November, with The Music’s Monique La Terra saying about one of their four Melbourne stops:
After a five-year hiatus, Paramore have resurfaced as a more refined version of themselves, and it turns out that evolution suits them. It seems they have found the sonic sweet point between musically ambitious and self-assured fluidity.
Following the tour, Paramore fuelled rumours of their imminent breakup by disappearing from the Internet. Those rumours were amplified when they suddenly dropped off a festival bill – but thankfully, the band quashed their fans’ fears by confirming that they have plans to continue as a newly independent band.
Their new era began shortly thereafter with a cover of Talking Heads’ Burning Down The House, which appeared on a tribute album that also features Lorde, Miley Cyrus, and The National. Talking Heads’ David Byrne later repaid the favour by covering the Paramore track Hard Times.
well!!!!!
— c-j (@allweknowiscj) November 25, 2024
it happened again & again! 🥲
speechless that i get to work with my favorite band not once but twice!
very honored to be a part of these merch drop with talented artists i only dreamt of working with - @elearor & @hillonthehills 🩷🧡
c'est comme ça truthers i gotchu! pic.twitter.com/9DcI1SNqN2
these are my 4 designs that were picked by paramore to run in their store!!!! i cannot emphasise how honoured i am to have not only grown up with this band, but to be seen and appreciated by them like this?! ❤️ the coolest bunch 🥲
— eleanor (@elearor) November 25, 2024
shop now: https://t.co/UBu4xfYnCQ pic.twitter.com/eFR4czRgg3
Hey hello I collaborated with paramore :~) no biggie, just my biggest dream ever coming true. @elearor and @allweknowiscj , two of my favorite artists ever, are featured on the drop and have the raddest merch. I love this band I love my friends and I will be hyperventilating🫂 pic.twitter.com/UzdDbhHt0N
— ✩(sad)hillonthehills ✩ (@hillonthehills) November 25, 2024
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