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| Subject: How pop stars make their money Thu May 08, 2014 7:48 pm | |
| The death of the pop music industry has been predicted for years - and certainly since Apple launched a whizzy device called an iPod back in 2001. The rise of free or pirated music online and the declining sales of CDs has at the same time been wielded as a cautionary tale about the power of the internet. Still, this week's comments by Lily Allen may finally confirm that any aspiring rock guitarists or pop singers might as well pack away their dreams and find a proper job.
"Everyone assumes I made millions from the John Lewis ad. I probably made £8,000 ($A14,550)," said the singer, whose cover of Keane's Somewhere Only We Know made it to Number One last year. It was played incessantly on the radio, and - of course - the television, as the soundtrack to John Lewis's Christmas advert, featuring an animated love story between a bear and a hare.
Allen, who took a four-year break to bring up her children, has claimed that pop stars now make most of their money from turning up to awards ceremonies and product events. "There are the snobby launches of a new water at Claridge's. Pointless stuff. And we all turn up because we get paid to be there," she told Beat magazine.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/how-pop-stars-make-their-money-20140508-zr6k0.html#ixzz31AfNc6uE |
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