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Originally Posted by kane
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.
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I wouldn't want to debate the issue with me either if i was lying as much as you were
Britney spears won star search, was on the Micky mouse club years before jive records exec ever met her.
the statement "Jive records was into Britney for about $3 million before anyone knew her name" is a bald face lie
She signed a development deal before she ever got her advance.
he album was recorded under that development deal
in fact some of her earliest mall tours used her Micky mouse club appearance as promotion
and because of that those malls PAID for her to appear.
The cost were more than recovered, your example are bogus. That the point it magic numbers shift around the time that money was paid, ignoring the revenue that came in
to fake an upfront investment when there was none.