Music video budgets dropped from $7M to $75K
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.
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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.
Save Me Tonight reached #1 after Coachella
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Touring now drives most artist income vs. album sales
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