how much do songwriters earn
Here are some facts: 1. Songwriters make some of their income from mechanical royalties. In the US, the royalty used to be 8.5 cents per song per unit (CD) sold. On January 1st, 2006 it became 9.10 cents.An album that sells 500,000 copies in 2006, would give the songwriter $45,500 per song.This post was originally written in 2006. Seven years later, it is much, much more difficult for songwriters to make an income from their songs because record labels are going under in, well, record numbers!].