Megan Thee Stallion was paid $15K while her label earned around $7M

[PussOfYonce 3,657]

Just now, justhislife said:

A genuine question I have is how does she afford her big house? Album advances?

merch, live performances, maybe other sources of income im not thinking about rn

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

10 minutes ago, justhislife said:

A genuine question I have is how does she afford her big house? Album advances?

Maybe she got a big signing bonus. 

[Dojo 19,601]

this is so confusing because she shows such lavish lifestyle on tiktok / ig. 

I wonder if she makes more from ad revenue than music?

[PussOfYonce 3,657]

Just now, JusKeepBreathin said:

Maybe she got a big signing bonus. 

 

Just now, dojo said:

this is so confusing because she shows such lavish lifestyle on tiktok / ig. 

I wonder if she makes more from ad revenue than music?

these two comments also are very possible in how she has a "lavish" life

[skaxboy 5,912]

I was (am) a TLC stan and they got played so bad like this. Theirs was based off of physical album sales. Opportunistic record label snakes just adapted to streaming. This is why I like that artist sell merch since most of that goes to their pocket. 

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

Her label wasn't letting her release the BTS Butter remix for a while because of the lawsuit. 

[RAMROD 111,339]

Hope she can renegotiate. Or otherwise let go so she can move on to a better label. 

This is always happen with new artists wherever they are from, because people just desperate to put out an album and get famous, and not paying attention so much to contracts and cannot afford lawyers to five them advices, then they get a little smarter about it all to understand their label had conned them. 

[dzox 552]

24 minutes ago, JusKeepBreathin said:

Her label wasn't letting her release the BTS Butter remix for a while because of the lawsuit. 

Btw Bts just announced minutes ago butter remix with megan coming this friday

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

Time to take them hostage me thinks  

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

Well the answer is in she signed a 360 deal...she should have researched more into what she was signing before she put her name on the dotted line...

The label is ****ed up...but it's the music business and it doesn't play fair...

READ YOUR CONTRACTS AND DONT COMPLAIN LATER...

[hELXIG 43,696]

The music industry is disgusting to artists.

Bit of a rant here, but It's insane to me when you compare the value put on professional sports players compared to artists. Art in the form is music is enjoyed by every single human being alive, yet it's totally undervalued and under appreciated. The industry exploits artists like crazy, crushes their artist spirit, and they get cancelled for saying one wrong word 10 years ago. But sports players have scandal after scandal after scandal and are still treated like gods among men, heavily protected by their superiors, and paid millions upon millions. Even in schooling sports are heavily funded and the arts are treated as worthless. Don't even get me started on how artists like Gaga are also performers who work like athletes in their live shows on tour night after night after night on crazy schedules and no sleep, on top of using their creative minds to make music from nothing, and honing other incredibly difficult skills like singing!

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

2 hours ago, justhislife said:

I mean they could be independent, but their success is somewhat limited. I don't understand how an artist or several artists haven't come together to create a label that signs new artists without screwing them over completely. That's my issue with Taylor Swift's argument about equal pay. She doesn't have the connections and capital to start her own label and after being as successful as she was she still decided to sign with another label rather than creating her own? Is there a secret benefit they rely on nobody knows about?

Well running your own label would still be like a glorified independent artist without financial backing of a label and having to pay millions in radio deals, marketing, paying all the staff, distribution, merch, etc on her own dime...she has money but taking into account her lifestyle AND all those other financial responsibilities...she wouldn't last very long year after year doing that...

It works for some but not everyone...its a ****ed up system 

[Versace 8,020]

2 hours ago, justhislife said:

I mean they could be independent, but their success is somewhat limited. I don't understand how an artist or several artists haven't come together to create a label that signs new artists without screwing them over completely. That's my issue with Taylor Swift's argument about equal pay. She doesn't have the connections and capital to start her own label and after being as successful as she was she still decided to sign with another label rather than creating her own? Is there a secret benefit they rely on nobody knows about?

Yes this idea sounds good on paper but its execution is much harder than you’d think. Most independent labels or artist-owned labels fail shortly after. Labels consist of qualified, talented management personnel whom are in it for the money. The artist has always just been asset management for them, they are comparable to any other management found in any other business. If a label was built that mostly benefited the artist, these qualified people would not jump on board. Also keep in mind that labels sign multiple artists and have shareholders to please, so they have growing operational and financial obligations that the 7m they’re making off Meghan is nothing compared to their expenses. In an ideal world these contracts wouldn’t exist but in business nothing is ideal. It’s always been that way.

[A MESS 3,938]

3 hours ago, skaxboy said:

I was (am) a TLC stan and they got played so bad like this. Theirs was based off of physical album sales. Opportunistic record label snakes just adapted to streaming. This is why I like that artist sell merch since most of that goes to their pocket. 

this moment

 

[hELXIG 43,696]

1 hour ago, A MESS said:

this moment

 

"and hopefully it can stop. Because it is not 1950 anymore, it is 1996" 

25 years later and STILL happening