Utterly stupid amounts of money. Especially on the back end %. One song like Brittnay’s “One more time” or Justin Timberlake’s “Sexyback” and the Ferrari basically gets paid off. Granted, that gets paid to the ‘business’ but that ‘business’ then writes the team some very nice checks as those kinda songs get done a lot.
Seriously, if you’re interested, look up those two team on “all-Music” and see just how many, and what kind of songs they do. And there are a dozen or so at their level of ‘name’. Then make the financial and ‘agenda/political’ connections.
Wow. It’s kinda sick. And if they are big Dem donors, buying their music is like being members of a politically connected union. I guess we now know how much of our entertainment dollars go to bad ends though.
You sound like you’re in the industry so this will come as no surprise to you but I know a musician who bought a chateau in France and a villa in Tuscany all from writing the jingles for a known toy’s tv commercials.