How much does a song like Applause cost to make?

[RegiRey 443]

25 minutes ago, Gaga of Time said:

So, that's why she wouldn't be happy at all if some songs leak before the release date, because everyone gets paid beforehand, except for the singer.

So, that means that you can absolutely go bankrupt if an album fails to succeed.  I'm not gonna think about becoming a singer 

The record label pays for it. Gaga doesnt have to. Its the label that is risking it. and no, you cant go bankrupt

[Ziggy 11,839]

With Born This Way's cheap-ass vocal recording, it must have been real cheap to produce lol Marry The Night vocals say hey.

[Lucas 26,979]

I have no idea about recent prices, but I know that for Madonna's debut album, she got 15,000$ to pay for each track recorded , but that was in 1983... (according to french wikipedia)

[Supersonic 49,376]

Actually, I doubt that Gaga pays producers for studio sessions. Usually she's on good terms with them, so I guess they agree on just being paid the usual songwriter/producer royalities, which is a lot if the songs do well. Also sometimes songwriters/producers are offered large sums in advance to give up the rights and any further royalities from the track. Let's say you write a song and the label convinces you to give up your royalities for a sum of $500,000. If the song tanks and flops, you made the deal of your lifetime. But if the song happens to become a smash hit a la Rolling in the Deep or Poker Face, you might have lost a lot of money in comparison.

The most expensive things would probably professional software, audio recording devices, instruments, studio musicians, mixing, mastering and renting out a studio to record. All of that could probably sum up to $10,000-$500,000 per track produced. The prices vary from the quality of your equip, how well known your producers, songwriters and studio musicians are and how fancy the setting you are recording in is.

[Dramatica 13,690]

19 minutes ago, amenvodka said:

Actually, I doubt that Gaga pays producers for studio sessions. Usually she's on good terms with them, so I guess they agree on just being paid the usual songwriter/producer royalities, which is a lot if the songs do well. Also sometimes songwriters/producers are offered large sums in advance to give up the rights and any further royalities from the track. Let's say you write a song and the label convinces you to give up your royalities for a sum of $500,000. If the song tanks and flops, you made the deal of your lifetime. But if the song happens to become a smash hit a la Rolling in the Deep or Poker Face, you might have lost a lot of money in comparison.

The most expensive things would probably professional software, audio recording devices, instruments, studio musicians, mixing, mastering and renting out a studio to record. All of that could probably sum up to $10,000-$500,000 per track produced. The prices vary from the quality of your equip, how well known your producers, songwriters and studio musicians are and how fancy the setting you are recording in is.

Thank you for that post.

Though, producers do probably know what songs have the potential to become hits and what don't. Though, since Gaga and RedOne posted a picture of them playing instruments, that means she's not "buying" stuff from him, they're more trying to come up with a new melody. Collaborations might be trickier as you can't acclaim royalties for yourself, they are shared.