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That means most of the money is going to recording companies (if the songwriter only gets $90 out of $1400).

The songwriter is entitled to royalties on that income because of our copyright laws and accounting infrastructure.

Just because the songwriter gets only $90 does not mean that is all Pandora pays out.

Radio stations would play our music and not pay us any royalty (except the songwriter portion), and that was fine.

He was a songwriter and composer mostly for Broadway and he was a great one.

Re: #1 - Radio play generates mechanical royalties for the publisher (usually the songwriter).

Think about the difference between a great session musician and a wonderfully creative songwriter.

Now if I were a songwriter, two possible approaches to increase my payout would be either...

The $0.006/stream is total payments for everything songwriter, label, performing - everything.

I insisted to my high school drama teacher that Neil Simon was not just a playwright but also a famous songwriter.

She wasn't some struggling songwriter desperately touring with a band.

This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut and thought that the royalties from that would get them out of debt.

Which, in the end, means that the songwriter gets screwed.”"

I made you the "songwriter character" in order to try and get you to empathize with their position.

Songwriter is interesting too: 4 out of 5 end with a variation of "y".

I can support myself," deceiving "by playing shows" [1] and even condescending, "This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut...