Slade earn £500,000 every Christmas in royalties
Rarely does a new Christmas pop song reach the heights of such classics Merry Xmas Everybody and Fairytale of New York, and the resulting royalties which earn six-figure bonuses for the musicians who created them bear this out. Analysts using data from the Performing Right Society (PRS), which collects fees when songs are played in public, have estimated the money earned by the likes of Slade and Mariah Carey when their festive songs are broadcast on the radio, internet and TV. Retro rock band […]
