{"id":344222,"date":"2011-03-28T05:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T05:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/28\/music-royalties-fall-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T05:29:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T05:29:42","slug":"music-royalties-fall-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/music-royalties-fall-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Music royalties fall for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"109.83946037099\">\n                    <span><br \/>\n                                      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/8c006fc23560_steveh.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Holden\" \/><span>By Steve Holden<\/span><br \/><span>Newsbeat entertainment reporter<\/span><br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n                    <span><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6111fcbcbiffy1_466.jpg.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"260\" alt=\"Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<!-- Empty - Wide embedded hyper -->                      <\/p>\n<p>The amount of money artists get from their songs being played in public has fallen for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>The Performing Right Society (PRS), which represents 75,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK, says the amount fell one per cent in 2010 to \u00a3611.2 million pounds.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s seven million pounds less than the year before. <\/p>\n<p>PRS For Music says it&#8217;s mainly due to a slump in DVD and CD sales, but also the growth of legal downloads has slowed. <\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;Guaranteed income&#8217;<\/span>      <\/p>\n<p>Some artists say they rely on the cash they receive from royalties, especially when they&#8217;re starting out.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Neil, lead singer of Biffy Clyro, told Newsbeat: &#8220;The thing about PRS is for a lot of bands it&#8217;s the only way you make money.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>           <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsbeat\/12863786#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Broadcasting and online (radio, TV and digital services)<\/li>\n<li> International (artists music being used abroad in any form)<\/li>\n<li> Public Performance (including clubs, music venues, businesses and commercial premises)<\/li>\n<li> Recorded Media (such as CD and DVD sales)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;In our first six years of being in a band that was the only kind of income we had.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the bread and butter for bands. It&#8217;s almost your only guaranteed source of income.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Ashcroft, Chief Executive of PRS for Music, said: &#8220;The loss of high street outlets, the slowdown in physical music sales as well as the difficulty in licensing music usage online has meant for the first time we&#8217;ve seen royalties collected dip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though the dip in royalties being collected is a small one, there&#8217;s concern it could be the start of a downward slump, possibly putting up-and-coming songwriters and composers from entering the industry.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>No sympathy<\/span>      <\/p>\n<p>PRS for Music says more has to be done to develop legal downloading sites so they counterbalance the CD slump and also compete with pirate and illegal sites.<\/p>\n<p>James Claridge, 19, is a music fan in London.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I like to support the little artists like Bombay Bicycle Club, buy their music to help them out, make them earn a living from it<\/p>\n<p>  <span><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1a6d8a704239_james1.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"James Claridge, 19\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    James Claridge, 19, says fans risk their favourite bands disappearing<br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PRS is massive for them I&#8217;m guessing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re in a decent band then you deserve to earn good money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could stop young people being inspired by music. If people see you can&#8217;t make a living, people will stop doing it, then you might stop hearing good music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s no sympathy from others.<\/p>\n<p>One 20-year-old told Newsbeat she hadn&#8217;t paid for a song in years.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s so easy to get it for free now, I could never imagine buying music any more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Artists make a lot of money from tours, sponsorships. They get free mobile phones so I don&#8217;t feel bad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If songwriters are that good they&#8217;ll find a way to make it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another 25-year-old said: &#8220;I just think they (songwriters) get enough money anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They get endorsements for example. 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