I remember reading a post by someone on a different forum that related to this subject. They mentioned that any money that goes into helping artists like Britney have been polled together from records sells of other artists. The more unknowned artists with the same record labels get screwed while the record labels focus their spending on promoting guranteed money maker artists like Britney. So not only do your favorite non-popular artist get very little for their record sells, they get screwed a second time because their records sells aren't used to help promote themselves. There are hundreds of artists with record labels....and how many of them do you see get the same promotions as Britney? Let's face it, the recording industry is out to make money which sometimes helps artists but most of them get screwed over while they watch other artists get all the benefits.
Of course Britney is going to defend the recording industry because they have invested a lot of money into her and have most likely given her a lot perks. Let's just see what happens when she passes her prime and not be such a money maker as she is now. I don't believe she'll be happy with the
lack of support she'll get from the same label that once prized her so much.
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the 90 or so "artists" featured in the spots like Eminem, Madonna, the Dixie Chicks, Missy Elliott, Elton John, Sting, Phil Collins, Luciano Pavarotti, Brian Wilson, Spears, and Natalie Cole etc. need to understand that their constituency is not the riaa or even the record companies but us, the general public. that for almost every recording artist in the world their living comes not from unit sales but from direct fan support at live events, that record sales have never buttered their bread.
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I completely agree JS
Even if nobody pirated their music, record sells are pretty much a brick wall when it comes to continued revenue. You can see this from older artists who are past their prime but are still touring. They see very little record sells but still make money from their concerts. How many times have you seen people buy the same CD twice or more? Many fans actually go to concerts with the same playlist several times. To make matters worst, most artists don't produce that many great CD's so record sells isn't where it's at. Concerts and advertising revenues are their bread and butter. Both of which don't necessarily benefit from a record label. It's basically what they have always been doing, promoting themselves and playing any gig that they can get. If they want to create CD's then they can just cut the middle man(the recording industry) and just license a CD company to produce their records.
What all the fuss is about is that record labels are lossing revenue because CD's are
their bread and butter. Once the artists realize that then they will finally see that record labels are no longer needed. Only the really big artists truely benefit from records labels, but this is something they can do themselves if they had a good manager.