[atlantaprog] Re: atlantaprog Digest V1 #66

>>Radio play is much easier to monitor than having some guy with a
>>notepad sit in every club in America and interview every performer 
>> >>afterward to see who they are and whose songs they played, then track 
>>down and verify this info.  I just don't know how they could keep their 
>>own administrative costs from going through the roof if they tried to be 
>>accurate about club playlists.
>>
>>Brian

Well, from hanging out a college radio stations, it seems like these lists 
are made by the DJs most of the time (I suspect it's different at commercial 
stations, but still someone at the stations is making the list).  How would 
that be different from lists being made by the bands performing at clubs?  
Sure, you would have inaccuracies and fraudulent entries and sure it would 
be difficult to track accuracy in the lists, but it would be a much closer 
approximation than the way it seems to work now.

Honestly, how many bands are playing by Britney Spears in clubs compared to 
their own original material ...or even compared to Black Sabbath for that 
matter.  I would think Britney Spears gets more airplay but Black Sabbath is 
more frequently covered by bands in clubs.  Either way, there are thousands 
of bands who are part of performance rights organizations performing their 
own music in clubs every night so that artists on the radio can get paid.  
It seems to me that if the bands made a list of what they played and the 
clubs who were signed up with the organizations were responsible for getting 
song lists from the bands, you'd have a much more fair system.  I understand 
that even at $.08 per song performance, 100 shows a year playing 10 original 
songs a night you're only talking about $80, but that's $80 that I'd rather 
see go to the correct artist.
-Wade

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