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Rebecca Black is.....

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  • The next Jimi Hendrix

  • The next Bob Marley

  • The next Janis Joplin

  • The next Lady Gaga

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Kev said:
she's made a shitload on itunes.
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What constitutes a "shitload"?

Even if she made a decent amount of money for this song, I have a feeling she isn't set for life. It isnt like she is going to have some on-going career as an "artist" because of this.
 
OCGuy said:
What constitutes a "shitload"?

Even if she made a decent amount of money for this song, I have a feeling she isn't set for life. It isnt like she is going to have some on-going career as an "artist" because of this.
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Last I heard she had around 60,000 downloads? At $1.00 a song, minus Apples cut, that isn't even close to "set up for life" or a "shitload".
 
datalink7 said:
Last I heard she had around 60,000 downloads? At $1.00 a song, minus Apples cut, that isn't even close to "set up for life" or a "shitload".
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Does she have a record label?

How much does an artist keep from an itunes purchase?

A. "10 cents."

This sobering Q & A comes from the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) iTunes Artist-Producer Royalty Calculation sheet.

More: "For major label artists, Apple collects 34 cents and the label keeps 55 cents."
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Thus 60,000 x $1 x .10= 288

🙂

Otherwise:

$0.70

If you submit the track to iTunes yourself, you make $0.70 and apple
keeps the rest. But you have to be a registered distributor.

Thus, 60,000 x $1 x .7 = 2
 
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datalink7 said:
Last I heard she had around 60,000 downloads? At $1.00 a song, minus Apples cut, that isn't even close to "set up for life" or a "shitload".
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While it's nowhere near "set for life", or even over a year for some, it's definitely a shitload of money given her age and how truly awful the song is.

And that's just Apple. I'm sure she has another "small" chunk from Amazon too. She described a day of the week and somebody autotuned the piss out of it. That's all. Now she can pay cash for a very nice car if she wanted. I would call that a shitload.

Also, I can't believe we're trying to define shitload. Where is it in relation to fuckton? Or shitzillion? Or "gobs of"? Is it a weight? Volume? If it's weight or volume what denomination do we use? $20 bills are standard... but $60,000 in pennies would probably be multiple fucktons compared to paper money. DETAILS PEOPLE!
 
zerocool84 said:
So Lady Gaga writing all her own music and singing it all herself is not an artist??? I didn't know someone had to play an instrument to be considered an artist.
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An artist is someone who creates a beautiful object for others to enjoy and appreciate, Lady Gaga is more like a sideshow freak, you will pay to stare, but she not an artist.
 
jonks said:
Does she have a record label?

How much does an artist keep from an itunes purchase?

A. "10 cents."

This sobering Q & A comes from the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) iTunes Artist-Producer Royalty Calculation sheet.

More: "For major label artists, Apple collects 34 cents and the label keeps 55 cents."
********

Thus 60,000 x $1 x .10= 288

🙂

Otherwise:

$0.70

If you submit the track to iTunes yourself, you make $0.70 and apple
keeps the rest. But you have to be a registered distributor.

Thus, 60,000 x $1 x .7 = 2
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she has full ownership.
she effectively bought her song and the video, that arc music company is a rent a musician team type dealie, they don't front money to "invest" in artists.

http://www.slate.com/id/2289341/
but it is correct, the amount she earned is probably way overstated.
 
What in the hell? I just heard about this video last night. What is the meaning of this monstrosity? When I first saw it I thought something hilarious was going to happen but then slowly realized it was actually serious...
 
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