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>Even with inflation, seems pretty cheap in comparison to other stories you hear about groups being given hundreds of thousands of dollars upfront to record and
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
>Even with inflation, seems pretty cheap in comparison to other stories you hear about groups being given hundreds of thousands of dollars upfront to record and then having these groups bitch about how they blew through their money and didn't get their record done
Those stories are about the total budget to produce an album, this is just the cost of the studio time and tapes. I'd bet the producer alone made more than $1000 for this song, and there would be many other people getting similar amounts.
- alfiedotwtf 5y agoMy menory is faded on this one, but IIRC there's an interview with 50 Cent where he talks about recording his first song. The producer wanted something like $50k but 50 Cent asked if instead he wanted royalties instead. The producer was undecided but eventually said royalties, and ended up getting millions