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# Music Income 2.0: Cover Videos
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/music-income-20/
- Published: 2008-08-18T05:04:34.000Z
- Updated: 2008-08-18T05:04:34.000Z
- Description: Music sales income may be in the toilet, but new revenue sources are popping up everywhere. Fans posting cover videos is the latest new source of tangible cash for a. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/08/music-income-20.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

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Music sales income may be in the toilet, but new revenue sources are popping up everywhere. Fans posting cover videos is the latest new source of tangible cash for a few lucky artists and songwriters.

A typical radio station plays 12,000 pieces of music in a three month period. During the same time frame on services like YouTube, royalty and rights organizations like [MCPS-PRS](http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/about%5Fus/press/latestpressreleases/prs/Pages/Fansboostonlineperformances.aspx?ref=hypebot.com) will analyze…

two billion performances of 14 million different videos. According  
to Andrew Shaw, Managing Director of Broadcast and Online at the  
Alliance, "The trend for posting self-made videos is driving the number  
of performances on the websites we license. Hairbrush divas are not  
only helping to generate royalties for the writers of their favorite  
music but could also prove to have the X Factor themselves and be our  
stars of tomorrow."

I’m not so sure about the last half of that statement, but it’s a a trend worth watching.