[ByteMercenary]

If you know anything at all about the music busines, you would know the artist is paid the least of the three mentioned. The artist typically gets less than $2 of that $15 CD you got for Christmas. The lion's share of that $15 goes to the recording label.

[DB]

If you could read, you would see that I wrote: "The artist and the label or the CD manufacturer."

Making my point that isn't the CD manufacturer making 10 cents on the CD pressing making the money.

P.S. I simply wrote my reply in the same manor as you wrote yours.