Originally Posted By: VideoTrack
Originally Posted By: Roger Brown
The results aren't incorrect. But look at the WHEN.

Different world now, different business.

Not arguing that there may have been change, but exactly when did this happen? What were the catalysts?


The catalyst/change happened when people stopped buying music and transitioned to streaming. In the U.S., unlike most countries, record labels do not receive performance royalties from radio play. Their money was always made from product sales. When the marketplace changed, they had to change as well. So they started requiring artists to sign what are called 360 deals - this allows the label to make money from all aspects of an artists' career - whatever sales still exist, concert revenue, merch sales, publishing/songwriting royalties, etc.

Most artists make their primary income from touring. So if you don't tour, you have no value to a record label, because they have no way to make enough money to bother with you.

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