$1.8 million a year. That’s how much former police chief Sting gets for a sample of his hit “Every Breath You Take.” American rapper Diddy pays this because he did not ask permission to sample.
American producer/rapper Diddy, 53, put the dots on i on Wednesday about his song “I’m Gonna Miss You” from 1997. He used in it a sample of “Every Breath You Take,” a song from The Police from 1983. Diddy said on Twitter he pays “$5,000 every day”, or just under 4,600 euros.
In an interview with The Breakfast Club, breakfast show on American radio station Power 105.1, Sting already in 2018 said that he received good fees from Diddy, because he only asked permission to use the song after the release of the single “I’m Going to Miss You”. a sample. “Now I get $2,000 a day for it. That’s for the rest of my life. That’s the deal we made amicably. Besides, we’re good friends now.”
Now Didi announced that the amount is actually higher: $5,000. This means an annual bonus of $1.8 million for Sting.
Notorious Big
Diddy’s second single was “I’ll Miss You” in 1997 – which she then worked under the name Puff Daddy. The song was a tribute to Notorious B.I.G., the rapper who was shot and killed that year at the age of 24. The murder has not been solved. At the MTV Music Awards that year, Diddy, Sting, and Faith Evans sang the song together.
Paying 5,000 euros a day for a sample is a lot of money. But Diddy also earned a lot from the song. The single was at the top of the US Billboard 100 charts for no less than eleven weeks, and the number one also scored 23 weeks on Ultratop, six of which were at number one.
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