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Grex > Music2 > #279: Napster: Thieves or Coolness? |  |
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gelinas
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response 200 of 206:
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May 4 04:43 UTC 2001 |
Prince appeared on The Tonight Show this evening. Leno said something about
Napster, to which Prince replied, "The artists don't get paid anyway." So
Leno asked for clarification, mentioning Mariah Carey's $20M contract. Prince
pointed out that an album sells for $18 and asked how much of that would Leno
give the artist. Leno said, "Half", so Prince said that 1 million copies
would mean $10M to Mariah, 2 million would be $20M, and 3 million would be
$30M: "I think Mariah got screwed."
How long does it take to sell a million copies?
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carson
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response 201 of 206:
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May 4 22:49 UTC 2001 |
(it depends on the artist. for example, Janet Jackson's most recent
album entered at #1 on the Billboard charts after selling over 600,000
copies in its first week of release. on the other hand, Dido's album
has been out for nearly two years and is only triple-platinum, with a
significant portion of those sales coming within the past few months.)
(most artists don't "go platinum" [sell a million copies], but Mariah
does so routinely. each of her first eight [!] albums sold over 3
million copies.)
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ashke
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response 202 of 206:
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May 5 01:17 UTC 2001 |
Well, unless you're a boy band...don't forget them.
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gelinas
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response 203 of 206:
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May 5 04:26 UTC 2001 |
That's about what I thought. I'm reminded of a scene from _The Glenn Miller
Story_. His prospective father-in-law is disparaging his profession and
asks how much he makes per record. Miller answers, "Two or three cents."
"And how many did you sell last year?" "Five hundred thousand," and starts
to walk off. Father-in-law starts counting on his fingers, and starts, "But
that's . . ." Miller looks back and says, "Yes, it is" and leaves. In
the Thirties, $10,000 was a fair amount of money. Today, it's not so good.
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ashke
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response 204 of 206:
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May 5 06:05 UTC 2001 |
not when you have to pay lawyers, studio time, other things related to the
album and THEN you pay for your house, expenses...
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dbratman
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response 205 of 206:
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May 9 21:39 UTC 2001 |
But don't the artists get a bit more than 2 or 3 cents per copy now?
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mcnally
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response 206 of 206:
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May 10 03:33 UTC 2001 |
That depends entirely on what kind of deal they signed..
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