Countries that don't pay artists royalties for playing their music on the radio: USA, North Korea, Iran and Rwanda.
Countries that pay artists royalties for playing their music on the radio: every other country

Radio Advertisement generated $17.4 billion USD in 2011.
Of that, the artists got nothing and probably paid the radio stations instead (in term of legal modern day payola, free concert tickets, etc...)

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/perm...xl8AeZ_8ln7zXg

artists should be happy their music gets played

Lol in the USA artists pay the radio.

and radio's should be happy they make music to keep people tuning into there station

Good news is that Internet Radio like Pandora has to pay the artists.

Bad news: Internet radio is like 8% compare to over the air radio which is 92% of overall radio play

Well, radio gives artists exposure so really it's for their own good.

Artists don't pay radio to play their music in South Africa

And I didn't know Rwanda owned a satellite

I misinterpreted the OP

This.

You already have instant exposure to hundreds of millions of people, what else do you want?

Over here in Spain we got SGAE, which is an equivalent of ASCAP; they're the ones in charge when it comes to protect intellectual property, they make sure everyone pays for playing someone's song, i mean, EVeRYONE: radio stations, hair salons, supermarkets, shopping departments... It's been proven that these people hace crossed lines they shouldn't have crossed, for instance, sending spies to someone else's wedding to make sure they'd paid for the song playing at the cerimony, and of course, the big cats on SGAE have been discovered stealing money and cheating, for which have been condemned to jail, but nothing repairs the damage done by these abusing laws that now our Government wants to guard for once and for all...

The songwriters and producers of the song get paid though, which is why if youre an artist now you better be writing or producing on all your work.

Artists must miss out on a lot of coins because of this

This is very interesting.

This is crazy

Money.

Also, I forgot to mention, we have a tax here in my '' lovely country'' over blank CDs or USB enginees, in case these are used for illegal purposes... Funny, isn't it?

um

a cut of the money because someone is running their business off your work?

Pretty much. Everyone here knows that payola is ridiculously rampant in the US.

Just another example of the American entertainment industry ****ing over its artists.