EMI = dumbest record label ever

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:57 pm

deathkvlt wrote:

Gast1 wrote:

deathkvlt wrote:

milkbaby wrote:

It's not a very good financial move for EMI. If you consider that Korn sold 1.5 million copies of their last album and sales are dropping plus their last 2 tours went from grossing $16 million to $3 million, things look like they are going downhill.

If you figure the record company will make about $4 per CD, and sales drop to 1 million, it will take at least 4 albums for EMI to break even on CD sales. Also, even though Korn is grossing $3 million on their tour, that is not the net profit -- you have to subtract out all the costs such as manufacturing of t-shirts, crew salaries, housing, catering, insurance, etc. Their next tour may even lose money.

Korn is old news. The EMI A&R guy that signed them is gonna get fired and then Korn will have to break up from being too far in the hole to pay off the huge advance paycheck.

I'll go with this theory.

Naa, I don't think so, EMI can make the same caculation. They are not stupid.

You're right, except you're wrong.

I'm gonna have to go with Gast on this one.

Kathaarian · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:11 pm

Gast1 wrote:

deathkvlt wrote:

milkbaby wrote:

It's not a very good financial move for EMI. If you consider that Korn sold 1.5 million copies of their last album and sales are dropping plus their last 2 tours went from grossing $16 million to $3 million, things look like they are going downhill.

If you figure the record company will make about $4 per CD, and sales drop to 1 million, it will take at least 4 albums for EMI to break even on CD sales. Also, even though Korn is grossing $3 million on their tour, that is not the net profit -- you have to subtract out all the costs such as manufacturing of t-shirts, crew salaries, housing, catering, insurance, etc. Their next tour may even lose money.

Korn is old news. The EMI A&R guy that signed them is gonna get fired and then Korn will have to break up from being too far in the hole to pay off the huge advance paycheck.

I'll go with this theory.

Naa, I don't think so, EMI can make the same caculation. They are not stupid.

But maybe they can't. Look at microsoft, they're supposed to be the biggest company and bill gates is supposed to be smart. But just look at the idiotic mistakes they do almost with every single product they have.

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:12 pm

Kathaarian wrote:

Gast1 wrote:

deathkvlt wrote:

milkbaby wrote:

It's not a very good financial move for EMI. If you consider that Korn sold 1.5 million copies of their last album and sales are dropping plus their last 2 tours went from grossing $16 million to $3 million, things look like they are going downhill.

If you figure the record company will make about $4 per CD, and sales drop to 1 million, it will take at least 4 albums for EMI to break even on CD sales. Also, even though Korn is grossing $3 million on their tour, that is not the net profit -- you have to subtract out all the costs such as manufacturing of t-shirts, crew salaries, housing, catering, insurance, etc. Their next tour may even lose money.

Korn is old news. The EMI A&R guy that signed them is gonna get fired and then Korn will have to break up from being too far in the hole to pay off the huge advance paycheck.

I'll go with this theory.

Naa, I don't think so, EMI can make the same caculation. They are not stupid.

But maybe they can't. Look at microsoft, they're supposed to be the biggest company and bill gates is supposed to be smart. But just look at the idiotic mistakes they do almost with every single product they have.

Explains why everybody uses Unix, doesn't it?

Kathaarian · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:18 pm

zadsterboombox wrote:

Kathaarian wrote:

Gast1 wrote:

deathkvlt wrote:

milkbaby wrote:

It's not a very good financial move for EMI. If you consider that Korn sold 1.5 million copies of their last album and sales are dropping plus their last 2 tours went from grossing $16 million to $3 million, things look like they are going downhill.

If you figure the record company will make about $4 per CD, and sales drop to 1 million, it will take at least 4 albums for EMI to break even on CD sales. Also, even though Korn is grossing $3 million on their tour, that is not the net profit -- you have to subtract out all the costs such as manufacturing of t-shirts, crew salaries, housing, catering, insurance, etc. Their next tour may even lose money.

Korn is old news. The EMI A&R guy that signed them is gonna get fired and then Korn will have to break up from being too far in the hole to pay off the huge advance paycheck.

I'll go with this theory.

Naa, I don't think so, EMI can make the same caculation. They are not stupid.

But maybe they can't. Look at microsoft, they're supposed to be the biggest company and bill gates is supposed to be smart. But just look at the idiotic mistakes they do almost with every single product they have.

Explains why everybody uses Unix, doesn't it?

If everyone weren't the lazy asses that they are, they would use unix.

Dudeguy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:26 pm

EMI are a bunch freaks on leashes

Anonymous · **Posted:** Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:59 pm

EMI isn't dumb for signing Korn, they're dumb for giving them 15 million in advance. NO ONE deserves that much for just signing some papers. I'm glad Korn has found a record label but why doesn't Jon just sign Korn under Elementree?

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