The Most Richest Songs...
It is difficult to work out which songs have made the most money especially as a lot of information is guarded by the industry itself but the BBC ran a TV documentary over the festive season and their research suggests the following are the top ten songs to date taking into account the royalties from sales, downloads and radio plays...
Some have an advantage in that they have been around longer than others and some have been lucky to be featured in perhaps a movie or advertising campaign so could actually be more popular on a later outing. Though in brackets I have put the version most likely to be popular where possible.
10. The Christmas Song(Nat King Cole/Mel Tormé)1946
09. Pretty Woman(Roy Orbison)1964
08. Every Breath You Take(Police)1984
07. Stand By Me(Ben E King)1961
06. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town1934
05. Unchained Melody(The Righteous Brothers)1955
04. Yesterday(Paul McCartney/The Beatles)1965
03. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'(The Righteous Brothers)1964
02. White Christmas(Bing Crosby)1940
01. Happy Birthday(Originally called Good Morning To You)1893
For some fun here's a new version of White Christmas where with some technical magic Michael Bublé sings with Bing Crosby.
It would appear at this minute a song that is played on the national BBC Radio 1 network pulls in approx £16 a minute in royalties. It also appears that usually in the States royalties are split between the writer and publishing company 50/50 but over here various deals are done and in many cases a song is published by the writer of the song so that way they get the whole lot...
You'll notice we have four Christmas songs and the traditional Happy Birthday song in the list. None of the featured songs could be called really modern. I guess the newest of them is Every Breath You Take(and that was released in 1984)
The years I have highlighted are when the song was released not necessarily the year a particular artist recorded the song as in the case of Unchained Melody as the song was out in 1955 and associated with a film called Unchained but The Righteous Brothers version came out in 1965. Seems virtually impossible to find any video of them together singing that song too.
Some have an advantage in that they have been around longer than others and some have been lucky to be featured in perhaps a movie or advertising campaign so could actually be more popular on a later outing. Though in brackets I have put the version most likely to be popular where possible.
10. The Christmas Song(Nat King Cole/Mel Tormé)1946
09. Pretty Woman(Roy Orbison)1964
08. Every Breath You Take(Police)1984
07. Stand By Me(Ben E King)1961
06. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town1934
05. Unchained Melody(The Righteous Brothers)1955
04. Yesterday(Paul McCartney/The Beatles)1965
03. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'(The Righteous Brothers)1964
02. White Christmas(Bing Crosby)1940
01. Happy Birthday(Originally called Good Morning To You)1893
For some fun here's a new version of White Christmas where with some technical magic Michael Bublé sings with Bing Crosby.
It would appear at this minute a song that is played on the national BBC Radio 1 network pulls in approx £16 a minute in royalties. It also appears that usually in the States royalties are split between the writer and publishing company 50/50 but over here various deals are done and in many cases a song is published by the writer of the song so that way they get the whole lot...
You'll notice we have four Christmas songs and the traditional Happy Birthday song in the list. None of the featured songs could be called really modern. I guess the newest of them is Every Breath You Take(and that was released in 1984)
The years I have highlighted are when the song was released not necessarily the year a particular artist recorded the song as in the case of Unchained Melody as the song was out in 1955 and associated with a film called Unchained but The Righteous Brothers version came out in 1965. Seems virtually impossible to find any video of them together singing that song too.
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