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Originally Posted by kane
and only roughly 50% of the members of the writers guild that work in the film and TV industry actually make money in any give year from writing. This is because being a working artist is difficult. Regardless of copyright laws creating something and then building an audience for it is not an easy thing to do no matter what form of art you are pursuing.
In the recent movie Pearl Jam 20 Eddie Vedder talks about how when you are a kid playing guitar in your room you can only dream of big success because that is what it is, a dream. Actual success on a huge scale just isn't going to happen.
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you can't say that never is a long time
it statistically impossible that one person can't do everything right in the crowd funded environment and become a mega star
given enough chances it always possible
this kind of business model has existed for 5 years
it already way ahead of what the transitional music industry was when it was in it infancy.
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This is DEAD wrong. I have said it before and will say it again. Read a book called, "So You Want To Be a Rock N Roll Star." It was written by the drummer of a band named Semisonic They went from being an unknown band to having a big hit single. The record label had about a million dollars including about $500,000 just to get their single on the radio before their single was ever actually broadcast. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera both had a ton of money dumped into them before they ever had a single out. I once read in Rolling Stone that Jive records was into Britney for about $3 million before anyone knew her name. An unknown band named Candlebox was signed my Maverick records and got a $800,000 advance. The label had over a million dollars into them before their first single ever came out.
Also read a book called Hit Men it all about the record industry and many of the deals that were struck. In it you get to read how they spent about $600,000 just recording Whitney Houston's first album because they were sure she would be a star and wanted it to be perfect.
There are plenty of examples of artists getting big pushes before they ever pay back anything.
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your doing it again
your taking the entire production cost of the album, all the promotion for the first single and pretending that money was spent in advance
Jive records didn't spend 3 million to promote "baby hit me one more time"
yes they recorded the entire album first, but they didn't do post production on anything else but the one single they were going to push
they didn't put money into music videos, media campaigns etc until it proved itself in the test market.
the record company spends very little testing the first single
if it flops they cut their losses hold your music hostage until you promote yourself to a level where they can make your money
All your proof is deliberate fabrication, the misrepresentation of the entire cost of promotion as an upfront cost
it has never happened, the record company has never spent money like your pretending they did.