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Did any musicians ever make a living off radio?
by Tobani 13y ago
Did any musicians ever make a living off radio?
- dllthomas 13y agoOften the money went the other direction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
- johnward 13y agoExactly. People would pay radio stations to break records. Then people would buy those records.
- acjohnson55 13y agoYou'd have to be getting an insane amount of airplay indefinitely to make any sort of living.
- whiddershins 13y agoYes. Entire generations of songwriters made their living from writing songs which were played on the radio.
- Semaphor 13y ago[citation needed] I'm pretty sure they made the money from selling the music people heard on the radio.
- whiddershins 13y agodownvote me all you guys want. People in the tech community consistently conflate performing artists (bands and stars you recognize) with composers (songwriters, the people creating the intellectual property, and who are most screwed by the modern economy) a song isn't an advertisement for ANYTHING for the songwriter. It is the entirety of the songwriter's creation. The songwriter does not make a living from t-shirts, ticket sales, endorsements, or hosting a reality TV show. http://blog.startmysong.com/2010/01/02/songwriting-how-much-money-can-i-make/ http://blog.startmysong.com/2010/01/02/songwriting-how-much-...
- baddox 13y agoBut they make money when the music is sold, which is what Semaphor said.
- smsm42 13y agoWhere the $800K for radio/TV performances figure came from?
- belorn 13y agoI downvoted you, because your reply do not include a source that supports the claim that an entire generations of songwriters made their living from radio royalties. The linked blog do nothing of the sort. It simply state that song writers get in average an $800,000 for radio and TV for a "hit song". It doesn't say how much is TV vs radio. It doesn't say what a hit song mean, or how many CD's such song will in average sell. It doesn't say what the average number of songs of a singular author is in such CD. It doesn't say what the average income from digital downloads are from producing such hit song, or how it effect sales from the authors other works. And worst of... Its a blog without any source for its data, and has a disclaimer at the bottom that says: ... the information is the opinion of the author only.
- whiddershins 13y agoIt is really hard for me to realize how ignorant of the music industry tech people are. Maybe that's because you guys seem delighted to pontificate all day long, without mentioning you have no clue whatsoever how any of it works. I didn't realize I need a citation to explain what is obvious to any music industry professional: performance royalties from radio play are a major source of revenue for songwriters of hit songs. If the passle of you want to wave your opinions around for decades while literally enabling and rationalizing the destruction of an industry through targeted technology (napster, for example, originally ONLY supported mp3s) maybe you should do your own research and educate yourself, and not expect me to footnote every assertion. Otherwise, just admit you want everyone else's IP for free and stop making up justifications.
- whiddershins 13y agohttp://www.artistshousemusic.org/articles/making+money+in+today+s+world+of+music http://www.artistshousemusic.org/articles/making+money+in+to...
- Tobani 13y agoAre they not still making money off the radio?