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Old 24-11-2009, 11:32
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419...rned-gaga-167/

News arrives that Lady Gaga has made £100 from a million 'streams' of Poker Face, and I was wondering how that compares to radio play.

Do artists get paid every time their song gets played on the radio? If so, how much? Anyone know?

Further questions - does this validate Spotify? Or is that not the issue at stake here? Discuss.
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Old 24-11-2009, 12:44
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419...rned-gaga-167/

News arrives that Lady Gaga has made £100 from a million 'streams' of Poker Face, and I was wondering how that compares to radio play.

Do artists get paid every time their song gets played on the radio? If so, how much? Anyone know?

Further questions - does this validate Spotify? Or is that not the issue at stake here? Discuss.
thats £99.99p too much for me

very overated singer


but reading the article thats for the first five months of the service in SWEDEN alone,so the total service wide amount will be more than that
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Old 24-11-2009, 13:13
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419...rned-gaga-167/

News arrives that Lady Gaga has made £100 from a million 'streams' of Poker Face, and I was wondering how that compares to radio play.

Do artists get paid every time their song gets played on the radio? If so, how much? Anyone know?

Further questions - does this validate Spotify? Or is that not the issue at stake here? Discuss.
I think it highlights the fact that it makes very little money. I think they'll need to start charging at some point, but there are still a lot of big names and popular recordings absent from their catalogue.
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Old 24-11-2009, 13:36
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I think it's inevitable that they'll have to start charging for everybody to use it, and as long as they don't charge too much I think it will still be pretty popular.

Record companies seem to be working with Spotify too which makes a change. Robbies album was streaming free for about 4 days prior to it's release. Usually record companies are really anal with stuff like this and start lawsuits at the drop of a hat!
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Old 24-11-2009, 13:47
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they make the money from the songs being played on Tv shows and films!
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Old 24-11-2009, 14:05
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they make the money from the songs being played on Tv shows and films!
Yes indeed...and to think that record companies never licensed out real tracks for adverts until about 1990.

The first of those famous retro Levis ads had someone impersonating Sam Cooke singing 'Wonderful World'.
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Old 24-11-2009, 16:10
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I think it's inevitable that they'll have to start charging for everybody to use it, and as long as they don't charge too much I think it will still be pretty popular.

Record companies seem to be working with Spotify too which makes a change. Robbies album was streaming free for about 4 days prior to it's release. Usually record companies are really anal with stuff like this and start lawsuits at the drop of a hat!
They already charge 9.99 a month for Spotify Premium,i reckon at some point that will become the norm
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