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A Music Industry Case Study

Posted by michael on Sunday February 23, 2003 @07:52AM from the step-3:-profit dept.

spmkk writes "The NY Daily News has an uplifting look at the fate of a (hypothetical) 4-piece band "making it big" in today's RIAA-driven music industry. The condensed version: A band that sells 500,000 records for $8,490,000 gross ends up (after a few iterations of the new math) with $161,909 in their pocket. Split four ways, that's a whopping $40,477.25 each for a record that probably took close to a year to produce. And this is for a record that goes gold (as per the article, only 128 of some 30,000 records released in 2002 were so privileged). And I bet you wanted to be a rock star when you were a kid..."

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Re:I'd hit it! by Stinson · 2003-02-23 07:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

yeah, and first to make it to the bottom of the list when modded for being an idiot
Re:Negotiating Position by Pxtl · 2003-02-23 08:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Mod this up - its a good serious non-troll comment from a troll account.
Re: What's worse... by JohnG · 2003-02-23 09:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Once again another case for a "just joking" tag on Slashdot. Actually, no I don't chase girls that with big breasts that look like cheerleader barbie, I prefer brunettes over blondes (and redheads over brunettes, putting blondes last) and am I firm beliver in the phrase "more than a handful is a waste" when refering to breast size.
Re:What's worse... by CAIMLAS · 2003-02-23 15:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I think he meant that she -does- like the taste of metal; that's good for you.

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