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    New fab M pix wearing sunglasses

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

    Posted · Edited by thelight

    Possible New M + Klein Video?

    A summation of Madonna's involvement:

    ...

    3. She conceived of and stars in the ad campaign, shot by her favorite photographer, Steven Klein, which gave her another excuse to publicly rub up on a hot man.

    4. The print campaign was culled from stills from a video shoot Klein did with Madonna, in which she flirts "seductively in diva-like poses" with model Tyson Ballou. So she ought to have a viral video out by the time the glasses launch in May.

    All Madonna's hard work will cost you $248 to $298 a pair. And as you can see from this list, understandably so.

    Full Article from TheCut.com:

    http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/03/madonnas_putting_her_name_on_d.html

    http://hassansouto.blogspot.com

    US promotion of Celebration

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    ^ Well the $120 million Live Nation deal was an estimate -- and she wasn't going to be paid $120 million up front. I know that much... I think there was a rumored up-front payment, but I forget how much it was. (The remainder would be earned from tours, CD sales, etc.)

    There is an advance. If it works anything like the publishing business, though, the royalties are sort of balanced against the advance. (I think... I might not be quite clear on this either.)

    Royalties can be so tricky -- if you sell a bunch of books to the distributor, then they go to the bookstores and they don't sell, the bookstores can return them to the distributor, and then ultimately the distributor returns them to the publisher. (And the publisher pays for the shipping of the books -- which is really expensive, because books are heavy -- to the distributor and from the distributor!) So, in the time of all of this happening, royalties can be processed and paid to the author. But if/when returns come in, it can adjust the royalty payments -- so the author ends up owing the publisher money.

    So, in really ridiculously low/simple terms, if an artist is advanced $50 for an album, they might not be paid any royalties until after the $50 advance has been recovered by the company. That sounds practical, but if the advance is $10 million or something, I don't really know if that's logical. You'd have to sell 1 million CDs to earn $10 million gross on an album.

    I'm not really sure if the advance is supposed to just be for the artist/author, or if it's supposed to be used to help create the project -- research for a book, for example. Because a label has to pay for studio time for an artist (which is really expensive) -- does that come out of the advance, or does that come out of the label's overhead?

    Promotion is even murkier -- who foots the bill for the videos, etc.

    I could be TOTALLY wrong about this, but it's a guess on my part. The most recent estimate I heard was that artists receive $1 for every album sold. The rest goes to labels, distributors, retailers, etc. That's why the touring is so much more lucrative for Madonna -- she sees a heck of a lot more bang for her buck with ticket and merch sales than with album sales.

    wow. thanx for taking the time to elaborate. i was in the music biz, had a song on the radio, but that turned into a nightmare. puff daddy literally ruined my career because his company, bad boy, wanted to buy a beat that was on my demo. the producer wanted to sell it but needed my permission because the music production had my input (specifically, i wanted the the sound (hip hop) to have a middle eastern touch (which no one was really doing at the time) so i said he couldn't sell it. we fell out after that... you mentioned who pays for vidoes, i've wondered about that too. Madonna mentioned in a magazine interview once that she was "balancing my daughter on my lap wondering how i'm going to finance my next video", this was during the ROL era. Perhaps artists who can afford it finance their own vids instead of borrowing from the label. Are you an author? u seem to know a lot about publishing.

    US promotion of Celebration

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    Everything you've posted in this thread. I agree 100%. It's actually how I feel. And I never even thought about what you said in bold, but maybe subconsciously. But you're so right about we won't get less of her just because the record label is losing money. And I think people keep forgetting a tour is ultimate promotion for any artist. I've said this many times, but some think she should be whoring herself out everywhere and while I wouldn't mind seeing her here and there, in the end, she really doesn't need to do that when she can sell out concert shows. I also think you hit the nail on the wall regarding how some are so adamant about moaning about Madonna not doing TV appearances and other promotions like artists like Mariah or Janet who do such promotion, yet they can't sell out concert shows like Madonna can. In the end, that's where Madonna is going to make most of her money. So I can totally understand why she isn't going to waste her time promoting a single when she can be concentrating on the the concerts which is her bread and butter. As some still don't realize, Madonna is paid up front with her albums. She makes the music and makes her videos and than goes on tour. Anything else, is a treat. And in the past, she rarely did anymore than just making videos and touring. It's only this decade she's done much more promotion on TV and even mini-promo gigs.

    I've always been interested in how music contracts really work. So she's paid an advance, but recieves royalties from album sales, right?

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