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...internet radio community into yet another ClearChannel playground.Unlike other countries, the United States requires terrestrial radio stations to pay licensing fees only to song composers, instead of paying royalties to composers and performers.Organizations such as Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Performers (ASCAP) have long collaborated with both large radio stations, and college stations, requiring the stations to log what they play for a given period of time—usually three days—and then assigning a certain fee to the stations based on the artists they represent. These companies have already...
...more concerts, Springsteen would go on earning substantial income as long as his songs are popular. As writer and music publisher, he earns royalties whenever his tunes are played on the radio, as music videos, in jukeboxes or by other performers. According to Gloria Messinger, managing director of ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), which tabulates the airplay of songs and collects royalties for writers and publishers, Springsteen may ultimately earn more than $1 million in such fees from the songs on the Live album alone. Says Messinger: "He is one of the ten most-played songwriters...
...Time'. Last year alone, the 30-year-old Swede wrote or co-wrote four Euro No. 1s: Spears' 'Oops! ... I Did It Again' and 'Lucky'; the Backstreet Boys' 'Shape of My Heart' and Bon Jovi's 'It's My Life'. In each of the past two years, according to ASCAP - the American composers' society that keeps track of such things - Martin's songs were performed and broadcast more often than those of any other writer in the world. Says Simon Cowell, an artist-and-repertoire (A.-and-R.) executive at BMG Entertainment in London, "If you've got Max Martin...
...just for standing it. And most of the people who win the awards are talented and work really hard. They deserve it. Of course I'd be happy if they gave me a Grammy, but I don't really mind their not doing so. I was happy about the ASCAP Award [Martin was named Songwriter of the Year in 1999 and 2000] because it recognizes the songs that have been performed the most and played the most on the radio. That meant to me that people wanted to hear them. I was very happy about that. I actually went...
...ASCAP has asked us to handle product placements in popular songs. For example, a ballad called These Foolish Things is available that lists various items that ostensibly "remind me of you." For $20,000, the lyric "A tinkling piano in the next apartment" could be amended to "A tinkling Steinway . . ." and so on. (For an extra $20,000, the song's title could be changed to These Wise Investments...