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Written by Marcus on 21.12.2009 at 09:26

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Written by Idioglossia on 20.12.2009 at 21:28

Written by [user id=291] on 20.12.2009 at 21:17

Written by Idioglossia on 20.12.2009 at 21:10

This is hypocritical and rather pathetic. People who support this spend half of the year dismissing the UK charts as meaningless and "not real music", and then do this and think they're accomplishing something. Little do they realise that they are just playing into the hands of Sony, who in turn fund the release of the X Factor singles that these muppets claim to be rebelling against.

No .... absolutely you misjudged that. Read this mister (from the Mirror):

"Rage Against The Machine will donate the proceeds made out of their Christmas number one battle with Joe McElderry to charity.

Guitarist Tom Morello told BBC 6 Music that the profits will help young musicians "take on the establishment".

The money will go towards Youth Music, a charity which helps children work with music who ordinarily could not afford to. "

So the money will go to some people who need it.... not into the pockets of Simon my ass

You really think RATM will get all the money generated from this? They will only see a fraction of it. Most of it will go straight into the pockets of the big bosses at Sony, who will then be able to (if they choose to) pump more money into Simon Cowell's company Syco, as Sony is its parent company.

About 80-90% of the money from downloads goes to the artist, I believe.

I'd love to see where you got this figure, because most of the time digital downloads bring the artist next to nothing. Yes, it's cool that RATM are going to give the money they make to charity, but you'd have to be naïve to believe most of the money doesn't go to the record label. Which happens to be the one Simon Cowell works for.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Jan_8/ai_n24225355/

End of the second paragraph, "artists get the lions share of revenue"

http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4620784-1.html

Artists get 50% of revenue, at least from Sony BMG, which happens to be the label Cowell is under. My ass he gets most of the revenue.

Unfrotunately I couldn't find the exact figure that i mentioned, not sure where I read them. But as you can see, Artists get much more from downloads than the usual 15% they receive from record sales.

You've managed to cherry pick figures out of both articles you linked without actually putting them in context. In the first link it says artists will increasingly get the lion's share once record labels become marginalized. Which they haven't done yet. And the second article is about how Sony BMG are being sued by artists who are only get 4.5 cents per 99 cent track, rather than the 30 cents they believe they are owed. So they think they're owed about 30% of the total revenue, and are only getting 4.5%. Nowhere near the 50% magic number you came up with from somewhere.

I never said Simon Cowell himself is getting the majority of the money, I said Sony BMG is, which is the label Simon Cowell works for. Whichever single won, Sony BMG gained from it, and Simon's just laughing all the way to the bank. Do you think he honestly cares where his money comes from? He's a pop music peddlar.