Interesting, but it's hard to know how much impact streaming had on sales vs. other factors. For example, Justin Timberlake e also appeared on Saturday Night Live and then appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon every night of the following week, both as sketch artist and musical guest. 6 nights of appearances on a broadcast network in a single week is an unusually high degree of promotion; I've never seen as much f…
Justin Timberlake Made a Fortune Giving His Album Away
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Re: Justin Timberlake Made a Fortune Giving His Album Away
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The top artists are making huge amounts of money from touring. http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1481408/top-25-tours-... eg Roger Waters' tour grossed $186 million on 72 shows. Madonna did $228 million. They obviously don't get to keep that, but they get a very healthy cut.
Only those (the top ones) though. For small alternative artists (less 1 million album sales, which is the vast majority) it's almost always a losing proposition.
Never did any come back broke a typical tour youd make $1-6k per show, plus around $1200 in merch, then do 20 shows while partying for free everyday at crash pads. Split that 4 ppl you go on a 3mos vacation to europe and return with $9-15k each which is pretty good income for a college band thats going back to school in sept.
If you lose money touring youre doing it wrong