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Fact #142947

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US music trade magazine Billboard reports that fourteen music publishing houses received $697,024 in mechanical royalties from 37,315,488 sales of records in 1950-51. The song Tennessee Waltz is reported as having been the most popular of 1951, having paid $79,580 in royalties from sales of 4,225,547 records.