Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker

responding to a few points from several conversations above.

Experiment to see if one can get royalties on original songs in a night club..... yeah, that won't work for a number of reasons. I mentioned that there is a formula the PRO's use. It's heavily weighted to the songs that are on TV, radio, and being sold as CD's in stores. Songs that get good rotation in the major radio markets get the advantage through the sheer numbers of spins. Songs that are actually on the charts. Since the songs only generate a few cents per airplay, it takes massive numbers of spins to get any real money happening.

They would also need to have registered the songs with their PRO first. If the songs are not registered, the PRO doesn't know they even exist or who to pay. Second, they would need to have generated enough radio spins to get on the PRO's radar with the formula used. Since most original local bands can't get more than a few spins on a back water tiny local radio station (at best) without the backing of a big label, there's no way they even factor into the formula at any significant level. Third, the PRO isn't going to cut a check for 12cents.



In fact, I fill in gig sheets for every gig & send it to my pro & am paid for every one of my songs I sing live. I live in France but am a member of BMI. I send along these sheets to BMI and wait to get paid. The french PRO (sacem) gets these sheets too & they pay my share to BMI who in turn distribute it to me. These gigs can be from a very small bar to a big concert halls, it makes no difference, I get paid for every "original" song every time I sing it in public.

I also work with production libraries but my earlier post was not about that but about getting paid royalties from gigging

Last edited by bupper; 06/04/14 06:50 AM.