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Let's say a radio station with 1m listeners plays a song 168 times. How much does the radio station pay out for those 168 plays, and how much ends up as publish

• deweller 12y ago
  Been a while since music business class, but here is what I remember: Radio stations don't pay per play. They buy a blanket license from performing rights organizations. Then those organizations listen to sample data and divvy out payments to publishers according to what their sample data says.
• fnordfnordfnord 12y ago
  Artists such as Taylor Swift have to pay for that air time. Payola is alive and well. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=310606 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=310606