BBC - Newsbeat - Royalties fall for the first time, says PRS for Music

By Steve Holden
Newsbeat entertainment reporter

 

The amount of money artists get from their songs being played in public has fallen for the first time ever.

The Performing Right Society (PRS), which represents 75,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK, says the amount fell one per cent in 2010 to £611.2 million pounds.

That's seven million pounds less than the year before. [...]

Full article at bbc.co.uk

 

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