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Old 06-03-2017, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by TrueFaith77 View Post
Imagine if you received royalties on 1/5 of 1/11 (that's 1/55) of Rumours--you would never have to work again.
That's not how it works. Today's rate for a song on an album is $0.09, so they'd each get $0.018 for "The Chain" per album. I don't know what the 1977 rate was, but just assuming 25 million copies by today's rate, it would be $450,000.
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