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"TOTAL MADE FROM 30,000 RECORD SALES = ABSOLUTELY NOTHING." I'm guessing that's only because her advance was greater than her royalties so far, so she really d

"TOTAL MADE FROM 30,000 RECORD SALES = ABSOLUTELY NOTHING." I'm guessing that's only because her advance was greater than her royalties so far, so she really did make money off of those sales. Probably much more than $19,000 too.

kragen 17y ago
Any clue on what the [edit] solo album advance might have been? I think advances range over two orders of magnitude or more, don't they?
- J_McQuade 17y ago
  Well, a close friend of mine helms a moderately well-known metal band (albums charted in Germany, high on the UK Rock Charts and on the Billboard Heatseeker charts in the US) and after two successful albums, a few large European tours and a month touring the US (in itself a big feat for a European metal band), they are still 'down' by a figure in the order of tens of thousands of GBP to their record label. It's definitely a tough game.
  - sanswork 17y ago
    Sounds like bullet.
  - kragen 17y ago
    See, the thing is, if they're only down by tens of thousands of £, which is like dozens of thousands of US$, they would earn out from that in short order if the album revenues were similar to their merchandise revenues Palmer cites here.
- rodyancy 17y ago
  Advances run from 10k to millions, depending on how many albums the music executives believe you will sell, and how badly they want to distribute your album.
- mattmaroon 17y ago
  I know more about the book publishing industry than the music one, but I'd guess that to get million dollar advances you'd have to be a band with a track record, or at least one in a bidding war between labels.
sanswork 17y ago
Its actually probably because the cost of making and distributing an album like hers is pretty high. Shes probably just not even close to breaking even on the costs she owes the record label. The fact that it was ben folds produced leads me to believe that it probably cost quite a bit. So shes right, shes probably made nothing and is in fact probably still in the hole.

kragen 17y ago

Any clue on what the [edit] solo album advance might have been? I think advances range over two orders of magnitude or more, don't they?

J_McQuade 17y ago
Well, a close friend of mine helms a moderately well-known metal band (albums charted in Germany, high on the UK Rock Charts and on the Billboard Heatseeker charts in the US) and after two successful albums, a few large European tours and a month touring the US (in itself a big feat for a European metal band), they are still 'down' by a figure in the order of tens of thousands of GBP to their record label. It's definitely a tough game.
- sanswork 17y ago
  Sounds like bullet.
- kragen 17y ago
  See, the thing is, if they're only down by tens of thousands of £, which is like dozens of thousands of US$, they would earn out from that in short order if the album revenues were similar to their merchandise revenues Palmer cites here.
rodyancy 17y ago
Advances run from 10k to millions, depending on how many albums the music executives believe you will sell, and how badly they want to distribute your album.
mattmaroon 17y ago
I know more about the book publishing industry than the music one, but I'd guess that to get million dollar advances you'd have to be a band with a track record, or at least one in a bidding war between labels.

sanswork 17y ago

Its actually probably because the cost of making and distributing an album like hers is pretty high. Shes probably just not even close to breaking even on the costs she owes the record label. The fact that it was ben folds produced leads me to believe that it probably cost quite a bit. So shes right, shes probably made nothing and is in fact probably still in the hole.