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Originally Posted by mysonichaircut
you earn millions, if you have only one "goo" or whatever out
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I reallly doubt that's true. Their top selling records, at best, sold about 300,000 copies. Recent records have sold less than 100,000. Even at 300,000 copies, at an average of $12 per copy, that's $3.6 million dollars gross. From that amount, you have to subtract the portion that the record stores keep. From the remainder, you have to subtract the record company costs, which include production, marketing, distribution, covering all the bands that don't sell and then the record company's profit. That leaves whatever is left for the band itself. The band has to pay its management, agents, whatever. What's left after that gets split four ways.
The real money is in the touring, but it's not like SY is playing in arenas.
In any case, I'm sure the band earns a nice living, but millions per record seems very unlikely.