Cindy,

If you go back up, I explained a lot of how song pluggers work. There is no set way, but most people end up paying between $350 a month sometimes up to $1500. It costs a lot of money to be in this business. When you have to do demos, employ people to represent you, trips to build catalogue, co-writing trips, etc. It can be very expensive.
Average publishers spend around $250,000 a year just to stay in the game. So hiring a song plugger can be a delicate business. It is not always about money, if someone believes in your music, they might work different deals. but since it is so hard to get music even heard, much less recorded and sold, with so much being influenced by illeagal downloading from the public, it all comes down to great songs and being able to get them into the pipeline. Access is what costs so much. And we all pay it. Whether directly or indirectly.

MAB