Quote Originally Posted by nigel View Post
I believe your right! I saw Girls Aloud at Sandown park Esher a couple of weeks ago, I thought they'd be cocky big heads but they're actually not at all like that.

But anyway, apparently the girl band TLC made little or no money, the late Lisa Left Eye Lopez was once very honest about it in an interview. She said when they finished their recording and touring, they were hit with a huge bill for the limo's/travel cost's etc I think they even had to pay for their own studio time! Which can be very expensive! It seems they all worked very hard to make their band successful, oblivious to the fact that they would end up with little or nothing! The interview was old so maybe they have made money now...
Thats why the most sucessful bands i notice normally eiter mange themselves or have a family member runnng them.

A lot of the bands i if they dont write the songs, perform covers, let others produce and remix will have huge fees.

But then if i did that at work ie subcontracted out part of the work and paid others to create my work then i would have to pay for it.

Many dance music acts and artists made a fortune as they released the songs published them wrote them and then when they broke the mainstream just licensed the songs to large record companies to distrubute and many made naff or just plain cheap videos as had sussed what was going on.