As a kid I used to think radio stations just slammed the disc album into the reader and played the music they needed, but now as an adult and as most music releasing digitally I don’t think they just play Spotify songs
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in a way it’s like spotify in that they have digital libraries now. but radio stations don’t just pop on whatever they want whenever they want. They have to have a licensing deal in place to be able to play music on their station.
Spotify basically has a huge blanket license to allow their users to play music and then spotify (based on the number of streams a song gets) uses the fee you pay to them to pay out royalties. but radio stations are broadcasting music to thousands of people with a single play. So those license deals are different.
There are some interesting licensing disputes from the band Led Zeppelin from back in the day. Some of their songs get lengthy with guitar solos and what not, but they wouldn’t allow for radio edits. You either played the entire song or not at all. And if they (and the label) say you can’t play a song then you can’t play a song.
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