Quiz: how much money has Stairway to Heaven made in royalty payments?
 

It's the honor system. Make your guess and then check out the number from this article about the Taurus lawsuit: http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/15/medi...ial/index.html

Wow. I guessed low. By a lot.

Given that Zeppelin was notorious for never allowing anyone to use their music until just recently, I would imagine that the lion's share of that is record sales.

The publishing royalties account for more than 70% of those earning but keep in mind, that's total earnings, not what was paid to the Artist or the songwriters.

Publishing

Probably way too much.

$38

100 mil

What would you say is the percentage paid to the band as a whole? The writer?

I would imagine that the hourly rate for writing it was superb.

Now there would be an interesting numbers break down.

My brain is fried after a long day (amd the 3 year old has been home all week with the stomach flu after the 8 year old was home all last week), so please give me a day or so and I'll put together an accurate number.

There's a lot of math involved because the Statutory Rate was very low in the 70's but changed over time with each "Remastered Version" (which is why remasters exist) along with the fact that Zeppelin had their own record company, which was a joint venture with Atlantic (and I'm not sure if it was 50/50 or not, so I'll need to shoot a few emails).

Don't go to trouble but would be interesting to know. The summer puke flu. Ugh. Here's hoping you and momma dont get hit.

shit load of money for a song that sucks balls