all ya'll are allways bitching about (for example) people not reading the fine print when they buy computers, and then compalining that they sould have known the actuall cost that was spelled out in the contract (with a little math)
same deal with the record industry!!!
have you ever seen a record contract? it spells out exactly what are the streams of revenue for the artist, what the record company keeps, other fees, etc...
this is why professional musicians have business managers... people who look at the record contract and determine the revenue, then deduct what the record company keeps, what the agent keeps... etc....
the artist (unless he/she has an incompitent business manager) is then told "you will have $n in revenu this year if you sell this many albums and play to this many people, otherwise, with this other set of figures you will $n2 in your pocket"
yes, record companies are asses, but really, people who are worried about getting screwed should voice those concerns durring contract negotiation, not after they spend more money than they can expect to have
and in the case of toni braxton, if she had two platinum albums, she should have had enough clout to make her concerns meaningful, if she bothered to mention them
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all ya'll are allways bitching about (for example) people not reading the fine print when they buy computers, and then compalining that they sould have known the actuall cost that was spelled out in the contract (with a little math)
same deal with the record industry!!!
have you ever seen a record contract? it spells out exactly what are the streams of revenue for the artist, what the record company keeps, other fees, etc...
this is why professional musicians have business managers... people who look at the record contract and determine the revenue, then deduct what the record company keeps, what the agent keeps... etc....
the artist (unless he/she has an incompitent business manager) is then told "you will have $n in revenu this year if you sell this many albums and play to this many people, otherwise, with this other set of figures you will $n2 in your pocket"
yes, record companies are asses, but really, people who are worried about getting screwed should voice those concerns durring contract negotiation, not after they spend more money than they can expect to have
and in the case of toni braxton, if she had two platinum albums, she should have had enough clout to make her concerns meaningful, if she bothered to mention them