How much money can a writer like James Horner make from a monster hit like “My Heart Will Go On?”
That song was unique in many respects because it became the song affiliated with an event movie the event of the ’90s almost as far as motion pictures go. First of all, the album sold extremely well. It sold over 10 million units. The album was mainly, I believe, a score album with that song on it. Then there was the Celine Dion album, Let’s Talk About Love, which sold extremely well. So all of a sudden you had the same song on two major hit albums simultaneously. That’s fairly unusual. Between the two of those albums, they sold about 18 million copies in the U.S. I’ve heard reports that it’s over 50 million worldwide, which is pretty substantial. If you multiply that by your mechanical rate, the numbers are phenomenal. The wild thing about that song is that it also wound up on the sequel album. That album sold another million copies. Since it was nominated for a Grammy, it also was included on the 1999 Grammy Nominees Album which reached the charts 13 months after the opening of Titan
