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>>75365913
Here is a take on it
>Courtney Love does the math
https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_

Long story short: anything you get from the label is docked from your future earnings (at an inflated price)

>>49983951
Have you ever seen the way record label do their accounting, as described by Courtney Love
>Courtney Love does the math
https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
Music is never cost effective, anyone who does music stuff in hololive never does it for the money. Suisei might have the highest income in hololive but she's also the one who spends the most money on projects. A result driven person like Risu will never succeed in the music scene, no matter how much support is poured into her.

>>49136186
TOP KEK, this reminds me of the way record label do their accounting, as described by Courtney Love
>Courtney Love does the math
https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/

Here is what she said
>This story is about a bidding-war band that gets a huge deal with a 20 percent royalty rate and a million-dollar advance.
>(No bidding-war band ever got a 20 percent royalty, but whatever.)
>This is my "funny" math based on some reality and I just want to qualify it by saying I'm positive it's better math than what Edgar Bronfman Jr. [the president and CEO of Seagram, which owns Polygram] would provide.

>What happens to that million dollars?
>They spend half a million to record their album.
>That leaves the band with $500,000. They pay $100,000 to their manager for 20 percent commission.
>They pay $25,000 each to their lawyer and business manager.

>That leaves $350,000 for the four band members to split.
>After $170,000 in taxes, there's $180,000 left.
>That comes out to $45,000 per person.
>That's $45,000 to live on for a year until the record gets released.

Then
>The record is a big hit and sells a million copies.
>(How a bidding-war band sells a million copies of its debut record is another rant entirely, but it's based on any basic civics-class knowledge that any of us have about cartels. Put simply, the antitrust laws in this country are basically a joke, protecting us just enough to not have to re-name our park service the Phillip Morris National Park Service.)
>So, this band releases two singles and makes two videos.
>The two videos cost a million dollars to make and 50 percent of the video production costs are recouped out of the band's royalties.
>The band gets $200,000 in tour support, which is 100 percent recoupable.

>The record company spends $300,000 on independent radio promotion.
>You have to pay independent promotion to get your song on the radio; independent promotion is a system where the record companies use middlemen so they can pretend not to know that radio stations -- the unified broadcast system -- are getting paid to play their records.

>All of those independent promotion costs are charged to the band.
>Since the original million-dollar advance is also recoupable, the band owes $2 million to the record company.
>If all of the million records are sold at full price with no discounts or record clubs, the band earns $2 million in royalties, since their 20 percent royalty works out to $2 a record.

>Two million dollars in royalties minus $2 million in recoupable expenses equals ...zero!

>How much does the record company make?
>They grossed $11 million.

Nijisanji model SURELY is looking like record labels. What's in that print screen
>marketing
>staff cost
>logistics
>misc cost
That's all what Anycolor is charging the talent, the exact party that has ZERO option to shop in the market to get a better deal.

For all the shit VShojo gets, at very least kson or whoever else can produce her own merch with her own contacts without having to cut VShojo in.
Hololive likewise, Lamy bankrolled and produced her sake entirely from her pocket and Hololive cut is nominal for the use of their IP.

Njisanji? Fucking Sony Music likely envies their gig