How Much Are the Annual Royalties for “Shanghai Beach”? At 79, Ye Li-yi Has Relyed on This Song to Support Herself for Most of Her Life Over the Past 46 Years
The amount wasn’t huge—nowhere near what top-tier celebrities earn. Yet this money was paid out continuously for 46 years, starting in the early 1980s, when she had just turned 30 and made “Shanghai Beach” a hit, and continuing until her seventies, when her temples had turned gray and she had long since faded from the public eye.