how is not caring about some millionaires complaining about their industry, being jealous?

They know what they getting themselves into, artists sign the contract because of the perks and the fame which allow them to make even more money.

Why should we suppose to care about the “struggles” of multi-millionaires when there’s people who work even harder without the benefits?

Sure they’re paying it back or it’s their own expenses, the everyday person is doing the same s***

Y’all be too attached to these artists

Yea, The Weeknd said in a interview I think in regards to starboy that if he didn’t do what his label suggested he wouldn’t be half as successful on billboard

It was the Zane Lowe interview but the full thing isn’t even on YouTube anymore

Isn't owning your publishing more important?

For every major artist who makes it and their masters are worth anything there are hundreds upon hundreds of flops who those labels wasted money on. If they aren’t turning as much profit on their successful investments then they’ll inevitably have to make less investments and be more frugal about the ones they do.

At the end of the day no one is forcing these artists into these deals. They willingly sign them because they want the opportunity the label offers. If you don’t like the terms of the agreement, go a different route.

Why bring up some fanatical see the world and getting free s*** if there's no modicum of jealousy at play? And you should care because it's ethically not fair and not every single one of these niggas are multimillionaires or do you forget that people signed to indie labels and smaller artists on larger labels exist? S*** a lot of these artists work harder than the people who oversee their music at executive positions (shout out a&rs tho) so why are you riding the record labels d*** if we're going by the same logic?

People go into payday loans knowing what they are getting into but they are still illegal in many states due to how f***ed up and predatory they are

In regular loans you pay back the money you initially owed + at a interest rate ontop. But in record deals you PAY BACK AT A RATE. For an example I can give you 1000 for a song, with a royalty rate of 10% to pay it back at. By time I get back the 1k, you still owe me 900 So by time you recouped, I got 10k. And still owe your masters so ontop of that I can sell the copyright of your music, when I license your music, you may get a songwriting royalty but I'm still getting the most because it's mine. Now lets inflate that to maybe 300k to millions with around the same royalty rate. Now can you see how a lot of these niggas end up in debt?

Stop d***eating. You can easily fight for the "common person", the artist signed to a label on bandcamp, or a person signed to a major.

These labels get tax incentives from artists flopping, they are spending way less now than ever because of they don't do artist development anymore among other reasons like music videos not being as extravagant as they were in like the 2000s, even if you go the DSP argument, many of them invest in them and help set s*** to the way they are as far as majors And read my post above.

an artist even at the highest level imaginable puts in a lot of work with their individual team to be successful. When you don't own your music, you are doing the work of a CEO and getting paid the equivalent of an employee's wages. and on top of that, you are putting in work as an investment for someone else's financial gain who has probably only met you once or twice. when your career peaks and you can't make money on tour anymore, the label makes more residual money off your music than you ever will. lots of musicians that fall off are financially ruined but their label is still profiting off their previous success

Crine niggas don’t want socialized healthcare but will fight tooth and nail for helping their millionaire idols make more money

This is what’s wrong with America

I’m surprised no ones done a “masters”/slaves bar yet

People outside of the US that can't understand the concept of wanting both and that MOST artists aren't millionaires

JPEGMAFIA has

Like, make it make sense

Doesn’t matter if your catalog becomes a multimillion dollar asset in and of itself

Op is stupid and wrong.

whole thread is so lost

How is a paycheque a loan do you pay back your workplace????

Highkey

And what artists don't? Your argument makes no f***ing sense. Artists have to PAY back their advances. YOU don't have to payback your employer.

That’s not a loan what the f***

I didn't even catch that

Y’all completely missing the point

Nerds

bro do you have a learning disability because i don't see whats not clicking

Y’all clearly don’t see what’s clicking because you guys are so blinded by being attached to these artists and their lives, it’s embarrassing

You intend to answer my last post to you or are you going to continue to pretend like you know what you're talking about?