mdemaz wrote:I clearly don't know what I'm talking about, but I try to understand this shit.
The music business is really complex.
It certainly is complex.
Sales really don't matter much to Em in a financial sense as he really won't earn much money from his music nowadays. MMLP2 sold something like four million copies worldwide, the bulk of which will go to Interscope as they'll have spent millions on the marketing and then Aftermath will make some. Then there's the royalties that need to get paid to Rubin and all the other producers etc. Between the album and the singles Em probably made a few hundred grand, but it's hardly life altering money for a guy who's net worth is something like $160 million. He won't make much money at all from Shady Records nowadays either. Em will make most of his money from performing these days, as he takes home about $1.5-2million a show. He must've earned a lot years back from royalties when he sold something like 65 million albums between SSLP to Encore and then there was obviously 8 Mile, the 50 Cent money from his first two albums, plus he toured a lot from 1999-2005. The guy's set up for life now, the only people giving a shit about his album sales nowadays will be Interscope and Paul. The music business is fucked nowadays, and despite the fact he doesn't sell close to what he used to Em is still one of the most commercially successful artists around.