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Originally Posted by Acey
I heard she made $1-1.5 million from Friday. So once she came to terms with being the laughing stock of the planet, I'm sure all was well.
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Actually she really didn't make anything. The company that wrote and produced the song gets most of the money. Still with the 100+ million youtube veiws only brought in around $20,000 in shared revenue. Another maybe $40,000+ in royalties. And around $400,000 in sales of the single... Which is pretty good for a 3 minute song, and maybe a day of work.
I think it's Ark entertainment or something like that did the song. She paid an upfront fee for them to write and produce a track for her, and make a video. Depending on how they broke down the points I'm sure they took most if not all of the 100 points allocated on the song... So, they got most if not all of that revenue.
Any singer, if they don't write the songs, they aren't getting most, if any of the sales of the recorded material... they do however get all the revenue from the touring, while the writers and composers are only paid a mechanical royalty allowing them to perform the material.
It's a big reason why a lot of artists like Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Justin Beiber, Justin Timberlake, etc write their own songs, or if they aren't good they bring in co wirters or ghost writers.... they want to have a part of the publishing.