Could the traditional artist-client freelance model work for producers and labels?

[TRANCEBLASTER]

A million per year for an act that is only big in the Netherlands with minor succes in a few other European countries? In the 90s…

Tbh I don’t really believe it.

well he also says that 'Wonderful Days' sold 395000 copies in Germany .... I remember an older interview with 'Ralph Fridge' that their project 'Komakino' sold 14000 copies in one week and they didn't make it into the TOP 100 sales charts in that week, so it can be real

 

[Hot Tuna]

Super Furry Animals (not a massively commercially successful band) received £1m from Epic (Sony) to make their Rings Around The World album in 2001.

Of course, out of any such payments you are/were responsible to deliver whatever is written in your contract (x number of albums/singles), so you do have to spend it on studio time, instruments, session musicians, technicians etc. It's up to you how much you can then afford/justify pocketing.

Noel Gallagher reckons he personally became a millionaire "five times over" the month that Wonderwall and a cover of Wonderwall (by Mike Flowers Pops) were both in the UK top 10. Singles sales could be that lucrative in the 90s.

 

[Julian Del Agranda]

Not too bad!