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In the Golden Album show on June 8, 2009 on the HCM City Television (HTV), the host introduced singer Khanh Phuong performing “Chiec Khan Gio Am” by Nguyen Van Chung. The host said that this song was the most downloaded as a ring-tone on a website named I-muzik, with over 1.48 million clicks for downloads.
Each download is priced 3000 dong, so I-muzik has earned around 4.5 billion dong from this song. Some may think that the writer of this song must earn a lot from copyright royalties, but the fact is different.
Young songwriter Nguyen Van Chung, the author of “Chiec Khan Gio Am,” said though his song brought about billions of dong to I-muzik, he received only 30 million dong of copyright royalties from VMG, the content provider to I-muzik.