How do Radio Stations play songs? Do they have the license for every song?

Question

Are some songs cheaper?? Do you just buy a huge license and some company distributes all that money?

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Answer 1

You do have big licenses that allow the radio stations and other public performances play any song in the catalog for a flat fee. The only requirement is that the radio station keeps a record of which songs they have played so that the record companies can split the profits among the artists correctly. So radio stations have players which generate this statistics automatically. So it is not something the DJs have to deal with.