Royalties on a song?

Question

If you had read the question properly Tony, I had already pointed that out.

Answer 1

she would have sought a licensing agreement with the publisher of Tainted Love, then the publisher would have paid the owner of the song from that. If she's using parts of Soft Cells original production, then there would have been separate licencing issue there with whoever published and produced that version. Royalties would have been collected in the usual way via the PRS and MRS. She wouldn't have paid any artist individually. It would just drop into the system. To the best of my knowledge, Gloria Jones no longer owns the song.. so she probably won't get anything, but the publisher who does now own it obviously will. Also.. it's a bit of sampling. She hasn't taken the whole song.

When somebody famous wants to sing your song (hence guaranteed sales) it's never as straight forward as 'the song writer gets the money'.... they would have done some deal.

Why do people think that the writer gets all the royalties??? they don't! once you've published a song, you no longer own it... the publisher does and then they give the writer a percentage. Normally 60-40 unless you're a very famous writer in which case you 'might' get a 70-30 deal. That's why there's so many fights with artists trying to get their songs back off the publisher i.e the Beatles, Sting, Prince etc etc they didn't realise what they were giving away (Sony BMG and EMI have only survived as the dinasaurs they are because of their back catalogues).

Answer 2

It was written by Gloria Jones (Marc Bolan's partner ) not by Soft Cell

Sorry I didn't read it properly.

The writer gets the royalties

Answer 3

Why are you listening to that c**p?  If you would just listen to something worth while, you'd not be wondering about this foolishness...................

Listen to good music, why don't cha?  Shall I send some along to you then?  ha!

Answer 4

The song writers get the royalties. The singer gets a cut from the profit of the sales of their recordings.

Answer 5

Maybe they were paid

Answer 6

the writer of the song will get paid unless they sold the rights to someone else, if someone covered the song in the past, they get no money from rhianna's sample