"The rest of it becomes an opportunity"

[ryan4136]

It certainly allows him to focus his entire schedule on himself.

With that said he has always used FM as his leverage with record labels. Will that be an issue going forward? Time will tell.

If he has 50 new songs ready to go, does he have a distribution ability to get them out.

I don't think he cares if he only sells 50,000 copies at this point in his life, but the record companies sure do.