What is the difference in the royalties that artists get from sales of digital music and physical albums?
It all depends. generally in the UK publishers receive less on downloads than physical product, depends how they get paid out. Sometimes it is done on pro-rata share of total profits made from all songs downloaded from a particular service. In the USA the statutory rate is often the same for physical CD sales and digital downloads (at the moment $0.091 per song under five minutes long). At least bands can get music heard easier through downloads. With the increase in people buying (through downloading) just one track of an album rather than the whole thing (as with iTunes, and the new Amazon music store), has this led to a big cut in the amount of money music publishers make? Again I think some publishers don’t like the idea of tracks being split up. Depending on how royalties paid out, it’s generally less than physical product in any case. Do you think publishers are feeling threatened by the rise of the internet in the distribution of music? I think ‘traditional’ ways of making reven
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