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Originally Posted by kane
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.
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and exactly which one of those failed to pay back the advance.
every single case you referenced made investment in stages
while they might have ultimately put did not invest in advance
justin beiber made back the entire production cost of entire album on the first single
his advance was tiny at first.
your using examples of establish bands who already were doing 25k stadiums and only got the not covering the advance at the tail end of their deals.
and now your using examples of people who paid back the advance hand over fist and got their push after they prove themselves at the smaller scale level.
to make your bogus claim
again order is important
1. money
2. not paying back
3. however getting concerts
4. 25 k stadium