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The musician wanted to spend his time playing his own cutting-edge music in smoky clubs, but instead spent every Saturday night playing Pachelbel's "Canon in D" and "Celebrate" at weddings ...
According to Tech N9ne, Eminem doesn’t charge a fee for a feature.Instead, he simply asks the artist to return the favor one day. "[Eminem] did the verse for nothing but a swap," the Strange ...
The tour promoter makes an offer of engagement to a particular artist, usually through the artist's agent or music manager. The promoter and agent then negotiate the live performance contract . The majority of live performance contracts are drawn up using the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) standard contract format known as the AFM ...
In politics, pay-to-play refers to a system, akin to payola in the music industry, by which one pays (or must pay) money to become a player. Almost always used in criticism, the phrase also refers to the increasing cost of elections and the "price of admission" just to run for office and the concern "that one candidate can far outspend his ...
Boyle herself, like other artists, gets anywhere from 12 percent to 20 percent of the suggested retail price of the CD, according to The Root, with a cut of that cash going to managers, musicians ...
Advances (upfront money that is paid directly to a recording artist) are normally always owed back to the label. Once (and if) the advance has been paid back from record sales, the artist then begins to see royalty payments for additional sales. Advancing an act money is a risk the label endures as it does not know how well the act's album will ...
Road crews (roadies) working on the stage construction for a concert in an outdoor amphitheater in Portsmouth, Virginia.. The road crew (also known as roadies) are the support personnel who travel with an artist or band on tour, usually in sleeper buses, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians.
Talent manager Brian Epstein possessed his own celebrity status alongside his role serving the Beatles and other artists, such as by hosting this NBC broadcast in January 1965. A talent manager (also known as an artist manager, band manager, or music manager) is an individual who guides the professional career of artists within the ...