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All bands are corporations. Each band member is an employee of the group that work for the corporation that is "Bon Jovi, inc". It's the same setup as the usual boy bands. With a little capital, good eyes and ears, you could hire someone to be a part of "The Tony286's", and promote that company, er, brand, just like you would any solo model of any solo model website. They get the recognition and star-power while you reap most of the $$$.
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The music industry is filled with stories about bands/singers who had hit songs, sold out big world tours and were still broke because of the way the contracts were and how the companies were formed. They end up with very little and others behind the scenes get most of the money.
There is a famous story about a singer who goes into a record label (this was in the 1950's) and he tells the label president that he wants more money. His song is getting played heavily on the radio and selling like crazy in stores and he has only gotten a few hundred dollars. The label head hands him the keys to a brand new Cadillac that he drove to work that day and tells him that the car is his. The singer is very happy. This is more than he had hoped for.
After the singer leaves the room another guy who was there tells the label president how generous that was of him. The label president laughed and told him the car was a rental so the guy will get a few days of happiness from it before trouble finds him.