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Originally Posted by gideongallery
wow so your using an example of an ESTABLISH artist who is already playing 25k venues squeezing the record company for a fair deal
or a band trying to get their record company to release them by artificially inflating the cost obligations as a justification for your bogus story
look at it again
1. record company invest 2 million dollars
2. they sell 2 million copies
3. they don't pay back the record company
4. then pull the summer festival circuit
5. followed by radio station concerts, music festivals etc.
I have been looking for an example of that for years
i have never seen it
no record company has ever plowed money into the promotion of an unknown band
every band had to go thru years of paying back all advances BEFORE they ever got the push that would allow them play major stadiums and ONLY then did they ever get an advance so big they couldn't pay it back.
In all the years i have been looking into this, with all my friends in the music industry, not one person has shown me the chain of events you described in your little story.
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Please tell me you really aren't this dumb.
You have never heard of a record label plowing money into an unknown act? Again, read a book called "So You Want to be a Rock N Roll Star." The book is about the rise of Semisonic. It explains how the label had more than a million dollars invested in them by the time their debut record was on the shelf.
Here are a few others.
Britney Spears - a HUGE promotional push right from the start.
Christina Aguilera - See Britney Spears
Candlebox - this band had only played a handful of live shows and signed for an $800K advance and had at least another million dollars in them before they ever released a record.
Everclear - the band I mentioned before went through this exact stage.
There are many others like Ashanti, Taylor Swift, Avril Lavigne, Justin Beiber, while I don't know how much they had invested in them, it was A LOT. There are many cases where record labels put a ton of money into unknown acts because they think they have the ability to be huge right out the gate.
Let's just agree to be done with this topic. It doesn't matter how I answer the question you won't be happy that you are wrong so you will just change the question again. So this is my last answer to you in this thread.