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Music, Coachella, and the Collapse of Video Budgets
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Sean pushes into Lopez's music career, which he says is massively underrated in the conversation about her. She reveals she had a number-one dance record just weeks before this recording — Save Me Tonight with David Guetta, which went to the top after her first Coachella appearance. She did five new songs for a limited overseas tour last summer and one of them popped. The conversation then turns to the economics of music videos: Lopez describes spending $1–2 million on big-budget videos at the height of her early career, while Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson were doing $7 million productions. Now labels give artists $75,000–$100,000, sometimes less. You basically shoot them on your phone. And because of streaming, album sales have collapsed — touring is now the primary income source for recording artists.
Lopez's new dance track 'Save Me Tonight,' produced with David Guetta, reached number one on the dance charts weeks after her Coachella debut performance.
Music video budgets for major artists collapsed from $7 million in the Michael Jackson/Janet Jackson era to as low as $75,000 in the streaming age.
In the streaming era, touring has become the primary revenue source for recording artists, replacing album sales which have been decimated by streaming platforms.
When Lopez wore the plunging green Versace dress, the internet broke — and Google had nowhere to send the image searches. According to co-founder Sergey Brin, the overwhelming demand for that single image directly led to the creation of Google Images.
