the best way to get paid for creating music is threefold...
1. play a live show and at the end of the performance GET PAID
2. sell your cd at those performances and GET PAID right then
3. get what you've written on the radio and hope you GET PAID smile

all these internet sites that sell, trade, swap, whatever ya wanna call it, i have my serious doubts about the validity of the numbers they actually report and pay out on.