Go Cubs Go Sold Right Before Song Exploded

Not that anyone makes money off music in 2016 anyway.

According to WREX Folk singer Steve Goodman's "Go Cubs Go" was sold by relatives. Now the song has climbed to No. 21 in digital sales.

Here's the thing, as bad as that sounds it doesn't matter. Goodman's relatives still get the songwriter's share of royalties for the song he recorded weeks before he passed away from leukemia in 1984, they are only missing out on pennies. What artists actually make in 2016 off of digital downloads, seriously is a percent of a cent. Basically nothing.

Saying that the family is missing out on a "fortune" is not correct. Maybe a royalty check for $10 every month or so is realistic. The good news is that it is was used in the best way possible, during the World Series.

A little about the "Go Cubs Go" songwriter, Steve Goodman. He was born on Chicago's North Side. Goodman began writing and performing songs as a kid, after his family had moved to the north suburbs. He is a graduate of  Maine East High School in Park Ridge, where he had a classmate named Hillary Clinton.