Friday 4 May 2001

Prince on Mariah's record deal

Yesterday, Prince was the guest on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show". He was talking about record contracts and how many artists are being screwed over these days. Prince himself is no longer signed to a label per say, but he releases his records through himself. He said that if his record sells a million copies, he gets 10 million dollar. If his records sells 2 million, he gets 20 million dollars.

Jay Leno mentioned Mariah's deal with Virgin, where she's getting over 20 million dollar per album. Regular record contract artists do not get that much from the actual sale of the album. Prince said: "Bottom line, Mariah got screwed!" Some in the audience booed when Prince asked them what they thought of her deal.

Many thanks to Will Nash.



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