in a previous life, i used to specialize at gaming the tour budgets to extract the most $ from the label. you know, the old, "we really need 20k, so we'll ask for 40k and then haggle from there ("yeah, i suppose you're right, a $10 per diem is too high; the drinks are free, they get a food buyout, the chicks throw themselves at the band, so really, how much money can you spend in the Motel 6 vending machine, let's call it $8 and...what do you mean we can't budget for a hotel each night?")

good times, man, good times...

chocomel

Also, she has a younger sister.

thewriteguy

Jupiter8

of course Kelly is charged as much as $88 face value which probably hurts

Butch Huskey

dollywould

dollywould

Butch Huskey

And her route to fame was rather unorthodox at the time she was introduced. The "Idol" platform that spawned her -- which was still finessing its formula in America -- was a giant endeavor that would have been wrought with overhead, development and promotional costs. Then tack on what J Records likely had to pay Idol to release her, as well as the cost of the subsequent efforts to re-develop her image, commission and purchase the right material from some of the most costly songwriters in the game to fit the re-branding...when you break it down, it's entirely plausible that she may have never recouped, or -- given the strategically engineered nature of her career up to this point -- might be the last person in the equation to see any money.

Maybe there's more to her oft-declared need to break away (full pun intended) and write her own material and all that than the mere notion of "artistic integrity" and shit...just sayin'.

Julio Allison

Maura Johnston

Michelle Branch: won at least one grammy, no #1 Hot 100 single
Kelly Clarkson: won two grammys, nominated for one, one #1 Hot 100 single
P!nk: won two grammys, nominated for four, only one #1 Hot 100 single
Corinne Bailey Rae: nominated for three Grammy Awards, no #1 Hot 100 single

Dickdogfood

You could have posted that any week since Idolator started and nobody would have batted any eye.

Ned Raggett

Reading him tell how great his life is, and reading about the sniveling high-ups in music that kiss his ass so they hope he prints something nice about them, all gets to be a little much. But occasionally, like the article above, you get an interesting tidbit.

Can I self-proclaim myself an industry pundit?

bnb614

beta.rogan

kerry

Bazooka Tooth

musicquizking