From: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org (sheryl-crew-digest) To: sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Subject: sheryl-crew-digest V3 #154 Reply-To: sheryl-crew@smoe.org Sender: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sheryl-crew-digest Tuesday, May 30 2000 Volume 03 : Number 154 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [sheryl-crew] is this a pic from the shanghi noon premire ["Christina] Re: [sheryl-crew] Congress picture ["Christina Clark" Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] is this a pic from the shanghi noon premire I believe this is a pic from the Oscar after party. Christina >hey i was searching ebay and found a guy selling candids of sheryl and it >looks like shes with owen in the fartheraway pic so i was wondering if it was >from the premire of his movie? (since i didnt see acces hollywood) >well here is the link >landon > > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=339426227 > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:51:25 -0400 From: "Christina Clark" Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] Congress picture GOD DAMN!! She looks pissed doesn't she?? lol, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that look!! Thanks Kate, Christina >Sorry if this has already been sent in, but if you want to see a picture of >Sheryl testifying, go here: > >http://www.geocities.com/fadedsign/testify.gif > > >Nice face, Sheryl! lol > >:) Kate > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:52:37 -0400 From: "Christina Clark" Subject: Re: [sheryl-crew] A lesson in royalties...I'll try. I put the figures in Canadian dollars cause that's what I know...sorry if I confused anyone :o) Christina >> As we see above, the >> artist and songwriting royalites may at MOST take up about $3 (depending >on >> the contract) of each album. >> An artist would be getting paid more BUT, the record label (if a major) >> takes the cost of packaging out of their royalties...so how much is a >record >> label making off a cd shipped to a retailer for a wholesale price of about >> $14? About $10 or $11, how sickening is that????!!! >> All the work the artist puts into that album.....and they walk away with >1/4 >> of what the label makes. > >Christina, > You did a great job up until this point, but I'm afraid that I must take >you to task for this last part. > First off, let's makes sure that we're using US dollars here (since that >*is* what Sheryl is paid in). Wholesale price on CD's in the US is in the >$9.50 to $10.50 range (depending on the size of the account) and avergaes >just over $9.70. So if total artist royalties per CD is around $3 (which >would probably be a little low in Sheryl's case, as she could command a >higher rate), >that would mean the labels share would be around $9.50. > The main thing is, this is NOT all profit. Yes, the cost to produce a >single CD is around $1, but the label absorbs ALL the cost of producing over >1 million of them at one time. In the case of the Central Park CD, this >failed to even crack the top 100, and lots of them are still sitting in the >warehouses. We won't even get into the expense of maintaining a plant, >shipping form the plant and warehousing. > On a regular album, after it's released, you then have to go about the >very expensive task of promoting it. Sorry, but stations don't add a song >to >their playlist, just because it's Sheryl Crow (especially as singles by her >are hardly ever released in the US). People are hired by the label to >distribute the thousands of promo-single CD's (that the label has also PAID >to produce) to stations in an effort to get airtime. Also, posters are made >up, flyers sent out and nice life size displays (ie. The Globe Sessions) are >made and distributed to stores. The label also foots the bill for your >favorite stars to visit with radio stations/television shows etc. to promote >the CD. > On lesser known artists, they also usually underwrite part of the tour >or >pay to have the artist be an opening act on someone else's tour. > Their are many other expenses that eat away the labels cut, but this >gives you a good start into them. For the effort they put out, the labels >actual profit is much less than the artists share (as it should be). > If self-distribution was an easy thing to do, than Prince would have >kept doing it himself and not very quickly jumped to another label. No >artist wants to absorb ALL the risks and have to do all the things that >labels do to promote albums, which is why even the biggest names continue to >re-sign contracts with them. >Best, > >Sean > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 23:35:32 PDT From: "innocent denial" Subject: [sheryl-crew] Wal*Mart .vs. Sheryl Article A bit ago, some expressed some confusion in the whole walmart not selling sheryl albums and stuff. Maybe this article I found on www.rollingstone.com will clear up some of the confusion. Wal-Mart Eating Crow Verdict against discount giant vindicates singer A recent Florida Supreme Court ruling that upheld a $2.16 million verdict against Wal-Mart for illegally selling ammunition to minors who used the bullets to kill a Pensacola man, seemed to support Grammy Award-winning singer Sheryl Crow in her on-going battle with the discount giant over guns and children. It was back in 1996 when Wal-Mart shocked the music industry by refusing to stock Crow's self-titled release because of offending lyrics from "Love Is a Good Thing": "Watch out sister, Watch out brother/Watch our children as they kill each other/With a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores." Wal-Mart and other family value discounters such as K-Mart and Caldor routinely refuse to sell records laced with profanity or objectionable art. But Wal-Mart was the first chain to boycott an album because company officials were offended by lyrics about their own stores. At the time, a Wal-Mart spokesman pointed out the chain had a strict policy against selling guns to minors. The ban removed Sheryl Crow from every store in the Wal-Mart chain, which accounts for nearly one out of every ten records sold in America. (Crow's debut, Tuesday Night Music Club, has remained in Wal-Mart's stores throughout the controversy.) But the Florida court decision, which came in late July, seemed to back up Crow's claim in "Love Is a Good Thing" that Wal-Mart has been culpable for murders committed by minors. The case stemmed from a 1991 murder-for-hire case in which an employee at an auto parts store hired three teens to kill the employee's manager. The teens bought their .32 caliber bullets at Wal-Mart, despite an existing federal law that, according to the Associated Press, "bans the sale of handgun bullets to anyone under 21." According to a spokesman at A&M Records, Crow has no comment on the ruling. Her new album, The Globe Sessions, will be in stores in Sept. 29. Wal-Mart is expected to stock it. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of sheryl-crew-digest V3 #154 *********************************