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US Radio doesn't pay the artists?! I was reading an article in Music Week, which is a British weekly newspaper for the music industry (people at labels, in distribution, music shops etc) about how the US music industry is lobbying for radio to pay a mechanical royalty every time a track is played.
I was just....  ...You mean...YOU DON'T PAY THIS ALREADY?!
In the UK, a fee has been payable since pretty much Day One so that every time an artist is played on the radio, royalties are due. We are not talking megabucks (70p I think, or thereabouts) but still the idea of the artist getting nothing whilst the station quietly pockets the money from advertising seems wrong to me. Any thoughts? (typo edit) [Edited 1/22/08 7:55am] This is not an exit | |
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They are supposed to pay the artists something... though I'm not sure how exactly it works... | |
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Yeah i saw this recently too, what it mainly is that artists do not get paid for their songs on the radio, the songwriter gets royalities, so now, since many artists dont write their own stuff, but have radio hits, they are upset because their really is no union or agreement for them. This is why you will see artists try whatever they can to get listed on the writing credits, even if they write a word or phrase. And also anytime sampling is used you bring in all the writers of what you are sampling, so at the end of the day, most artists today who get radio play are sharing with 50 different people. ...Solution...Write your own stuff. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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How in the hell are they going to ask for spin payment when they pay radio to put artists in rotation or heavy rotation? These are the same wads that count the spins they PAID for and hold it up as some reflection of public tastes.
That can't be right. | |
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Dance said: How in the hell are they going to ask for spin payment when they pay radio to put artists in rotation or heavy rotation? These are the same wads that count the spins they PAID for and hold it up as some reflection of public tastes.
That can't be right. That too, i can pretty much bet the UK radio scene and airwaves are not bought and sold like the US ones, but here labels and radio and networks are all in the same game, pay for play. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said: Dance said: How in the hell are they going to ask for spin payment when they pay radio to put artists in rotation or heavy rotation? These are the same wads that count the spins they PAID for and hold it up as some reflection of public tastes.
That can't be right. That too, i can pretty much bet the UK radio scene and airwaves are not bought and sold like the US ones, but here labels and radio and networks are all in the same game, pay for play. No I guess not. All good points being raised here. I didn' realise the songwriters were getting paid - which is a completely different ballgame to NO-one getting paid! Oh and by the way if you have never heard it, UK radio from a music point of view is just useless.. This is not an exit | |
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There are mechanical royalties for radio & TV right now; I occasionally get checks for just such events. Without having studied it carefully, I believe the current proposal is to change the measurement system. | |
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