Christmas Music

[SIRandyraven]

You hear the same old Christmas songs every year ...over and over again.
How much money do these artists make per radio play ?
Chap from mud was on radio today and said he does make so much money from royalties these days , due to internet downloads and people getting music for free.

[B00]

Apparently Noddy Holder calls Merry Christmas Everyone his retirement fund, so it obviously still pays well.

[cazzz1975]

they are probably making a small fortune out of it but I get bored hearing the same old christmas numbers year on year

[jackthehat]

Surely it can't just be down to nostalgia ?..............the fact that we don't seem to have had a memorable Christmas sing-along record in the chart for years .............?

[cazzz1975]

I blame xfactor and manufactured music starting with stock,aitkin and waterman in the late 80s

[B00]

I love the old Christmas pop songs, yep im the sad git who'll happily sing along to Slade, Shaky, Band Aid and Wizzard.

[ummmm]

I know it's not Christmas music but I listened to an interview with Gerry Rafferty and I think he said he got 17p everytime Baker Street was played.

I read Shane MacGowan's biography and he said he got 80k a year from Fairytale of NewYork.

[boxtops]

I'm singing with you B00 - we're the AB Singers.

[haysi06]

Hi SIRandyraven, Not a Christmas song but I read earlier that Simon Neil who penned the song Matt from x-factor released made £30K from 40,000 of their own sales of the same song. Not bad eh?

[mazie]

Fairytale of New York and Silent Night for me.

[SIRandyraven]

I think us AB'ers need to write a Christmas song for 2011.
Maybe have a Chatterbox has talent contest and select the best.

[SIRandyraven]

Chatterbox lol
I mean ChatterBank has talent

[haysi06]

OK, I'll start...

Oh the weather outside is frightful.............

[boxtops]

But the warmth inside's delightful.......

[ELVIS68]

New xmas songs are cr@p, Coldplay the latest example, you can`t beat the old xmas songs to get you in the xmas mood

About 20 years ago Noddy Holder said he makes £50k a year from Merry Christmas Everybody

[Buenchico]

Back in 2003, BBC Radio 1 was paying £18.44 per minute of airplay to the PRS. So that was around £60 per single track. (I've heard figures of £80 per track for Radio 1, and £100 per track on Radio 2, quoted as current but I can't track down any exact figures). The amount that a recording artist from get from that would depend upon the terms of his contract with the record company.

Chris