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Exhibit 18-A (continued)

ROYALTY DISTRIBUTION OF TUNES ON RECORDS RELEASED TO THE TRADE IN 1974 PERIOD
Regular Price LP Albums *

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Not including eight records either released before 1974 or to be released later on which only one of the tunes was licensed in 1974. No such tune was licensed at a discounted royalty rate.

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2) Block discount

3) Medley discount

**Records #407, 408, 409, and 410 and #422,423,424, and 425 are four record albums, #453, 454,455, and #460, 461, and 462 and 463 are 3 record albums, and #444, 445, #458, 459 and #463 and 464 are 2 record albums. Each record in such albums has been shown separately and counted separately.

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Exhibit 19

ROYALTY DISTRIBUTION OF TUNES ON RECORDS RELEASED TO THE TRADE IN 1974 PERIOD

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Total royalty rate for the album was set at 164 and involved two medley discounts and one block discount.

**A two record set retailing for $7, on which some publishers agreed to grant budget album discounts, especially on the shorter duration-tunos

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Rates on "Club" Records

Finally, there is the second category of non-regular price albums which are sold either to record clubs or to non-music organizations for use as premiums, and which provide additional opportunities for incremental revenues to copyright owners. In the 1974 periods the two record companies released 98 of these so-called "Club albums", all at lower than regular prices. These 98 For these club album tunes, a standard In 948 or 90.1% of the licensed tunes,

albums contained 1,052 licensed tunes. pattern of discounts is very apparent.

the royalty rate is 75% of the regular commercial rate for that tune. In 89 instances, 7.4% of the total, no discount at all occurs from the regular commercial rate for the tune. In only 15 instances did discounts of other than the standard 25% occur.

It should be noted that the regular commercial rate from which the club rate is calculated is not always 24. It is 24 for more than 80% of the tunes, but in the remaining cases the regular rate is either above or below 2¢. The pattern of the discounts from the regular rate is set forth, record by record, in Exhibit 20, on pages 82-83.

Three other characteristics of the rate pattern can be cited.

• First, in all cases where the regular rate was greater
than 24, the club rate was 75% of the commercial rate.
Second, in 820 of the 841 instances where the commercial
rate was 24, the discount was exactly 25%. Of the other
21 cases, no discount was granted on 17 tunes, and a 50%
discount was granted on the other 4 tunes.

Third, where the regular commercial rate was less than
24, there tended to be less than the standard 25% discount
from the commercial rate. For example, of the 52 instances
where the commercial rate was 1¢, only 5 tunes were granted
the special 25% club discount; there was no club discount
granted for the other 47 tunes.

This concludes the presentation of rate data.

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The first rate of each pair is the regular commission rate and the second is the Club Album rate.

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