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Originally Posted by gideongallery
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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It could happen. Anything could happen. There are exceptions to every rule. My point is that becoming a big star no matter which route you take is a nearly impossible task where many of the things that must happen in order for you to find success are luck based and out of your control.
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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.
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I'm not debating this with you. I spent about 5 years in the record industry. I know how they work. Sure, most people get signed and they record an album and if the first single doesn't hit the label abandons them. But there are acts that the label believes heavily in where they pump money into them before they ever see the light of day.
There are great examples I gave you in that. Whitney Houston's label spent $600,000 recording her album. That is a lot of money before she ever paid back a dime. Candlebox got an $800,000 advance. Britney Spears was signed to Jive records. They hired a vocal coach to work with her for a month to refine her voice. They then paid to send her to Sweden and hired some of the biggest, best known producers and song writers in the business to work with her. Before her album came out they paid to send her on a tour of malls where she did little mini-shows. This is all money spent before the single ever hit the air.
You saying it NEVER happens is just wrong.