Originally Posted by mikemover

Yes, I do.

Commercially available music is "released to radio" for exactly such purposes. Radio stations' playlists (as well as satellite radio, internet radio, cable and satellite TV, even bars/nightclubs who have DJs, jukeboxes, etc.) are surveyed by ASCAP, BMI, and other smaller organizations whose purpose is to collect royalties for these broadcasts, and to distribute such royalties to the songwriters and musicians who are entitled to them.

My music was sent to radio stations, specifically in hopes that they WOULD "market" it for me. I am paid for each individual broadcast of any song for which I am listed as a writer or performer.

Such is the case with all of the music they play. This is VERY different from file-sharing and piracy.