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Old 11-05-2010, 06:45 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by music_phantom13 View Post
80%? Not sure where you got that but most artists get far less than 20% of the profits when you buy an album, to be sure. I'm sure any musician would be extremely lucky to make a dollar off every album sold. And keep in mind that comes after enough albums have been sold to pay off the record companies for whatever you owed them.
As well as divided up amongst the band with the largest percentage going to the one who contributes the most in terms of instrumentation and song writing.
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