2007-04-12 17:42:26 · 3 answers · asked by Marvin 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The composer earns money from a song in two ways. The first is a standard licensing fee for the use of the material in a film, recording or commercial. http://www.bluevisionmusic.com/findasong/licensing_fees.htm
The next way is through royalties paid for CD sales. This is around 9.1 cents per copy sold. That is for each track written on a CD. So if you wrote two tracks you would receive 18.2 cents for every cd sold.
2007-04-12 17:58:26 · answer #1 · answered by charleyit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends how many times it is played, downloaded, purchased et cetera. It gets tracked by BMI.
I was a radio DJ back when we had to write down everything we played for 2 weeks a year, then it was averaged to determine the pay. Noawadays it's tracked by computer so it's a lot more accurate.
2007-04-13 00:50:01 · answer #2 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends. all proportinate to sales.
2007-04-13 00:50:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋