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Originally Posted by RawAlex
The true money in music sales isn't a 10 second money shot, but a long term continued grind. How much money do you think that the guys form the Rolling Stones or the remaining Beatles make each year on residual income from album and song sales, income from over the air use, etc? That is where the true millions are made.
Many artists have come and gone, made a big splash with a platinum album, and dissappeared, only to turn up pumping gas or turning tricks to make ends meet.
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The Eagles are a good example of that. When Hotel California was originally released it wasn't a huge success. But the album continued to gain a following and sold so steadily over the past 30 years that it is among the highest if not the highest selling album in America. I think it's sold around 30 million copies.
Then you have MC Hammer that sold 10 million albums within basically one year and went broke soon thereafter. But his album isn't moving off shelves anymore.