Music related and a bit interesting...
Way back in the early days of Rock and Roll, royalties for artists and songwriters were very much often than not very paltry; The Beatles, for example, received the princely sum of about 1/4 of one penny for each single record sold and just a bit more for an LP; of course, once they became the biggest thing ever, the deal was renegotiated in their favor; however, other artists were not so fortunate and many made tons of money for their record labels and got pittances; the situation was a lot better for for band members who were also the songwriters for their bands; they received an additional, and sometimes larger, royalty for each record sold of their compositions; Lennon/McCartney and Jagger/Richards make substantially more than their bandmates and a nearly sole composer like Townsend of The Who was raking it in; now, with streaming, and the decline of physical record sales, royalties have become a real issue for artists; royalties are based on each song streamed rather than on an actual record sold; streamers took advantage of their near stranglehold on the market and are paying really low royalties; this link is an article describing the royalty system for various streamers and the amount they pay for each download to the artists:
Streaming Royalty Calculator: What Your Streams Are Worth -
https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-m...-pay-musicians
Some well established artists are being shocked to receive royalty checks reflecting just a fraction of what the received prior to the age of streaming services; however, if you are lucky enough to get one of your compositions to be used as a TV show theme and that show is successful, you can really rake the money in:
Eight Figures for ‘The Big Bang Theory’? Inside the World of TV Theme Songs -
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ry-1235233087/
Interestingly, some artists set out to be TV and movie soundtrack writers; Danny Elfman created the band Oingo Boingo as a means of showcasing his work to TV and movie producers; needless to say he succeeded spectacularly; some others also used their bands to promote their songwriting to TV/film producers and had some degrees of success...
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