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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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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…

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/arts/music/justin-timberla... The amount of publicity for this album is mind boggling and it's disturbing how willing people are to be swept away by it. I hope at least when Universal's done paying for all the fake hype they won't have made much profit.

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.

I toured with noname punk and electro bands all over europe. They def make more money on tour than anything else and all of them have a network of free places to crash run by local artists, they borrow local gear so you dont have to pay for logistics, and the venues feed you on top of payout end of the night.

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

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