Stevie discusses Possible New

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Originally Posted by elle

word on the street is that he actually made money on his last year's solo tour. but it was certainly not millions he will make on the "big machine" tour.

i don't think almost any artist is making much money on album sales anymore... there was a story about Gaga having to cancel 25 tour dates just today, and the comment made by a reporter was "considering artists today make money touring and not by album sales she certainly didn't cancel these lightheartedly"... or something like that. that's talking about current artist selling millions of albums in the most recent years.

Excellent point. I'm not judging FM for being from the old school where labels gave you big budgets, focused on artist development, branded (with all the necessary evils that incurs), etc. So, they are ducks out of water right now and have to figure out how to maneuver in this new world. I'm sure it's really hard and a bit of a culture shock. I believe there was a time when an artist could cut out touring almost altogether and still make a very comfortable living based off royalties/publishing if they wrote their own stuff.

By the way, I bet LB did make money off the OMS tour. Stan works for peanuts, right? Lol.