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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While still making ludicrously little from spotify.

"Allen’s daily Spotify earnings are $4,077, or about $1.4 million per year."

If that's "ludicrously little", I want to be as poor as she.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's her cut of that? If she gets all of it, then, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What’s her cut of that?

I don't know, you made the comment that she's "making ludicrously little from spotify", so you should know.

Also, nobody should care because: "Allen’s most recent album, No Shame, dropped in 2018." Those are royalties for doing no work since then. She got paid handsomely by the record company for the distribution rights. She gets paid handsomely whenever she's on concert. Ongoing royalties are a BS concept.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wish I was still getting paid for work I did 6 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You have a point, but remember that musicians aren't getting an hourly wage when they record an album.

Also, major record companies seriously screw artists. They give them an advance, which is basically a loan, that is supposed to include the costs of recording the album. If the album tanks, the artist is in debt to the record company. It's ruined people who's debut album didn't chart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Same. :( People should send me money every time they walk into a room I worked on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She makes next to nothing from putting previous works on spotify, and more from keeping previous pictures of her feet on onlyfans. There's another article that we were discussing further down, about the likely percentage artists get, but that wasn't your point, since you think she should get nothing from both spotify and onlyfans. I assumed you were questioning my numbers, but you think the number should be lower, so you were questioning my use of the word "ludicrous." I get it now!

My main disagreement is that I'm positive now that all that 4000/day does not go to her, so she is probably not lying about the number difference. She does still make plenty off some old music in other ways, of course. To a ludicrous degree perhaps? No?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

since you think she should get nothing from both spotify and onlyfans

I don't know where you got that "both" from.

Regular people don't get royalties for their work either. Factory workers who assemble ovens don't get a cut from each meal a restaurant cooks, for example. Those filthy rich musicians, Hollywood actors, etc. keep leaving out that they've already been paid millions for their work. They leave out that they sold the publishing rights to record companies. They act as if they earned less than you and me. They are doing absolutely fine. No need to fight for a right to better royalties or anything like that. If they need more money, they can just make new music.