Yes the money is in the song-writing, hence why Taylor is always making more money per album than the likes of Rihanna, Miley etc. Not only does she sell more albums, thus getting more cash per album release, but Tay gets paid mechanical royalties for every track on the album that she has written as she has writing credits on every single track. Every Taylor CD that is made (even if iit goes unsold) gives her cash for every track she has written on it. As Taylor has written every track on all her albums AND her albums have a lot of songs for an album, she gets lots of mechanical royalties.
Taylor already has published about 90 tracks, so she gets mechanical royalties for every single one as she has writing credits on all of them bar a couple of cover-versions. Also whenever a Taylor track is played on radio/TV she gets performance royalties as the song-writer.
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In the run up to Speak Now's arrival, the fact that Swift wrote the songs by herself was the impression that she was moving into a more adult phase of her career, but that credit turns into real money when units start shifting. With the fourteen songs on the album credited solely to Swift, and given standard mechanical royalties for songwriters (the amount a songwriter gets paid every time his or her song is sold) at 9.1¢ per song, first week sales of Speak Now dropped $1,333,878 into the star's piggy bank.
Add to that the 2.5 million digital tracks sold to date, and we're talking more than a million and a half dollars to be split up as Swift and her attendants see fit.
For Swift, this is great news. For the rest of the songwriters-for-hire in the industry, you have to imagine the news stings a little. All other things being equal, anyone else hitching a ride on this star — say Taylor owed you a favor and gave your cousin a single songwriting credit on Speak Now — would bank $95,000 based solely on album sales in that first week. And that's without even starting to count public performance, YouTube and Vevo plays, or radio spins.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2...s-massive-week
should i fall for this
When will other peoples faves ever have an in-depth feature article of that quality in the Wall Street Journal?
There is no way they would.
(((( (yeah, I kinda like the MM songs idk and Jeff Bhasker did an amazing job on HG)