How Much is "Stairway to Heaven" Worth?

This is a question posed by the people at Music Radar.  Let's take a look, shall we?

Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven is undeniably one of rock's classic songs. But what does that mean on a monetary scale? In a recent article, Conde Nast Portfolio did some numbers crunching, and the figures are staggering.

Publishing royalties
Zeppelin hasn't licensed Stairway To Heaven for movies or commercials. But songwriters Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and Warner/Chappell, the song's publisher, pull royalties from record sales, radio plays and live performances. Zeppelin has played Stairway at every performance since 1971, yielding somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000 in royalties. Everyone from Frank Zappa to the London Philharmonic has also performed it, and when you take into account the plays it's received at hundreds of thousands of proms, weddings and bar mitzvahs, well, that's some serious money. (DJs and venues pay a small annual fee for the right to play it.) Estimated gain: $400,000.

Royalties from album and DVD sales total about $8.6 million. Plus, Stairway is a radio king, clocking something like 2,985,000 plays, netting nearly $2 million. It's also thought to be the best-selling piece of sheet music in rock history, with royalties of $1 million.
Estimated total: $12 million

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New Music From The Inbox: Othello Woolf, Hey Brother, Brad Example, The Martyr Index & The Cheap Speakers

By Juliette Jagger

Artist: Othello Woolf, "Odysseus"
Album: Odysseus

The thing that this new wave of R&B artists have is that they understand how evoke a turn on. They don’t tell us that the song’s meant to be sexy, they just provide the groove for us to pick up on.

Sounds like: Gettin hooked.

Link/Listen/Watch: Stream it here. 

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Paul McCartney Shuts Up His Grandkids

Can't really argue with the man, can you.  (Via Imgur)

A Trifecta of Oasis News

Item 1:  Johnny Marr considered joining the band in 1999. From Oasis Newsroom:

At one point in 1999 after Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs and Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan left the band, Oasis even thought of getting to play with them, and he considered joining.

He told NME magazine: ''It was only a contingency. A few phone calls went back and forth between our offices when Bonehead and Guigsy left, but I couldn't do it, and they knew it wasn't a good idea.'

Item 2:  Noel's 13 year-old daughter a centre of attention at London Fashion week.  She's 13. (Via Huffington Post)

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Vancouver Canucks Need New Entrance Music. Vote Now.

If you're a Canucks fan, you'll know that the band Odds have been involved in music at home games. That's nice, but maybe it's time for something a little more modern.

The Canucks agree, which is why they're asking fans to vote on a new song for the team's entrance when they hit the ice.

Some 2,853 suggestions were made, which were whittled own to six finalists.  After previewing the following, go here and scroll down to the bottom of the page to vote.

Here are your picks:

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