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Date Posted: 03:15:43 07/19/12 Thu
Author: "Payola"?
Subject: How do musicians get paid when their music is played on the radio?

How do musicians get paid when their music is played on the radio?

I'm curious.

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Answers Answer from TheLightWorks 3 people found this helpful First, the musician licenses their music with ASCAP or BMI, or another agency.
When the radio station plays a song, they record what they played and when, and what agency it was licensed through. They pay royalties based on how many songs they played from each agent. Then each agency develops a paycheck for each artist on their roster, based on how many of that artist's songs were played by all the radio stations.

but the short answer: pennies.

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Answer from bounsoul 3 people found this helpful They don't get paid, it's more like free advertisement!
Musicians don't get paid for their air time on the radio. They are still very happy when their song gets played, though...people will be listening and it is the musician's hope that these listeners will go out and buy their albums, go to their concerts, and buy their merchandise, thus making them into mega-zillionaires. Man I wish I could sing...hehe!

There have been problems in the past where certain musicians and promoters actually illegally PAID the disc jockeys to play their songs on the radio. There was even a famous court case involving that issue. Ever hear of the phrase "Payola"? For more info, check out this wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola

Recently, there has been some debate over the issue. Check out the following article if you're interested:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/09/listener_musicians_vs_radio_in.html
Sources: My Music/Law class in college (great!) and the sites attributed in my answer

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