Thursday, 9 April 2009

Pete Waterman only earned £11 in 'RickRoll' royalties from YouTube in 2008

"I co-wrote 'Never Gonna Give You Up', which Rick Astley performed in the eighties, and which must have been played more than 100 million times on YouTube - owner Google. My PRS for Music income in the year ended September 2008 was £11. ”
Source: Record Producer Pete Waterman on the site FairPlayForCreators.com, 24th March 2009

2 comments:

DL said...

It took two people to write that song?

Dan said...

In fact it seems that it took 3 - and Rick Astley wasn't one of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up