During my vacation I’ve browsed through a lot of radio channels and every one was playing the new Miley Cyrus Song at some point and very frequently and I asked myself how she or any other artist earn money from the radio stations.
Does the artist really get a certain amount for every time the song gets played on any station on any country or does she like sell the rights to play the song as much as the radio stations want for a certain amount? How does it work?
I’m specifically asking about radio, not Spotify or smth similar.
Thanks!
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The artist may not make any money on it. This is for the US.
Radio royalties are paid in two parts 1) to the song writer (whomever it is) 2) to the holder or the publishing rights (i.e. the master song recording that is actually being played) usually this is the music label
So, notice in there I said nothing about the artist performing the music? Because they don’t get paid for that. If they wrote the song, the songwriter gets paid, and the owner of the masters. No one else gets a cent from it
Payments are made on a per play basis, or are at least supposed to be paid as such, there is no ‘unlimited play’ license on radio, its pay per play.
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