The music on my web site is for the purpose of promoting record sales. Don songwriters receive compensation from album sales?
Songwriters only receive a fraction of their compensation from revenue generated by the sales of the recording, and often split that fraction with co-writers and publishers. Many songwriter’s livelihoods depend on the money they receive from public performance royalties collected by BMI. In fact as much as 75% of a songwriter’s compensation can be from the performance royalty from radio, TV, cable networks and commercial establishments. The greatest hits of the 60s and 70s are still some of today’s most widely played songs. Because of the amount of airplay that occurs over the years, the public performance royalty becomes a critical component of the songwriter’s income. Many talented songwriters depend on the public performance revenues they receive through BMI to make their living.
