Originally Posted by kane

Once again you have no idea what you are talking about. You could use the internet to find this stuff you you know.

Britney spears left the Mickey Mouse Club in 1994. She signed with Jive records in 1997. Her mall tour was in 1998 and was co-sponsored by L'Oreal. The Mickey Mouse Club stopped existing in 1996 or there about. It was long gone before she ever started recording a record.

But Britney aside. What about Candlebox getting an $800,000 advance? What about Semisonic getting a much smaller advance but having the record label spend around $700,000 on their album and getting their first single out there? What about the label spending $600,000 just to record Whitney Houston's first album?

Another to add to the list is a band called Helmet. They were in demand had a small bidding war around them and signed a record deal with Interscope that gave them more than $1 million up front and they were unknown.

Even if I am wrong about Britney Spears I am not wrong about these other people who had big money spent on them before anyone knew who they were.