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Post by lulu1265 on Jan 17, 2015 14:38:33 GMT -5
I personally think this is great, classy on Monte's part. I was actually thinking this was Monte extending an olive branch. I wonder if Adam will take it. I hope he does. |
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Post by LindaG23 on Jan 17, 2015 14:38:56 GMT -5
I was actually thinking this was Monte extending an olive branch. I wonder if Adam will take it. Olive branch? Ooh dish the gossip! I wasn't aware there was bad blood between them Check out the thread in Members Only Info on page 5 entitled 'Adam vs. Monte/Monte vs. Adam'. It begins in October 2011. Hopefully this will explain everything without an extended rehash in the News Thread. I will PM you the link. |
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Post by stardust on Jan 17, 2015 14:42:40 GMT -5
I personally think this is great, classy on Monte's part. Or he is trying to get back on the superstar's good side. I wonder if the creeps will put out another fake album when A3 comes out. They did not use all the stuff they had. >:( |
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Post by nica575 on Jan 17, 2015 14:43:04 GMT -5
This is a comment from the author of the Forbes Idol article about how he came to the 2.5 million earning for Adam. All comments are about Adam, directly or indirectly. Zack O'Malley Greenburg Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Forbes Staff 1 week ago We don’t usually release our breakdowns, but I appreciate your thoroughness and non-trolling tone, so I’ll make an exception. Lambert did eight non-charity solo shows doing our scoring period and his average gross is $420k, according to Pollstar, so 8 x $422k = $1.125m. For merch, standard calculation is $5 per head at 8,858 people show x 8 = $354,320 (yes, some of those shows did not draw that much, but online merch roughly fills the gap). That gets us to $1.479m, call it $1.5m. We weren’t able to get precise record sales data from his team or label this year, so we estimated 500,000 TEA sales (one-third of Kelly Clarkson) at a royalty rate of $1.75 = $875k. Round up to $1m to account for streaming payments and work with Avicii, and you get $2.5m total. That’s not counting the one Queen show he did in our scoring period, but we round up or down to the nearest half million on this list. I hope this restores your faith in Forbes! "his average gross is $420k, according to Pollstar" = AWESOME! I wonder why GLEE payments were omitted? I would think those were during the reporting period... So, it is quite possible he made substantially more than the reported number, even if he sold less than 500K records... plus the 2 private events we know about - just those two are probably around $400K-$500K. |
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Post by lulu1265 on Jan 17, 2015 14:47:09 GMT -5
I personally think this is great, classy on Monte's part. Hopefully it's a sincere attempt to mend a friendship and not just the possible realization that pissing in Adam's cornflakes might have been a short-sighted move, career-wise. I don't think he really needs Adam as far as his career goes. He was well-established before Adam was even on AI. |
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Post by FanOfTheMan on Jan 17, 2015 14:51:19 GMT -5
To put it simply, and I think accurately, Monte and some other lowlifes went completely behind Adam's back, without his permission, and underhandedly put out a CD of old Adam songs that Adam wanted never released. They put it out right before Trespassing, trying to undercut Tresspassing, and people were confused, thinking that was Adam's new CD.
Yes - best to read about it in the Members Only thread. I get angry just remembering the betrayal by this so-called "friend."
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Post by coo.coo.ca.choo on Jan 17, 2015 14:59:03 GMT -5
Monte Pittman @montepittman
@adamlambert @wbr @billboard Congrats on everything! That's great, man! ???? WUT?! |
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Post by Jablea on Jan 17, 2015 15:04:29 GMT -5
Monte Pittman @montepittman
@adamlambert @wbr @billboard Congrats on everything! That's great, man! ???? Huh? Been a long time, Adam's more likely to forgive him than Glamberts but I'm happy to see him reaching out. |
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Post by betty on Jan 17, 2015 15:05:13 GMT -5
Re. the bear discussion:  Thanks for the explanation, rihannsu and LindaG, I didn't know that meaning of the word either!  I thought the whole time that he meant something else because we have a totally different "double meaning" of bear (Bär) in German!!!  In our language people use the word to describe ... errm  ... the female genital or ... more specific  ... when a woman doesn't shave off her hair there, she has a "bear"!  So I thought that Adam wanted to paraphrase that he is not into women!!!   ... Broken English, LOL!!!  |
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Post by coo.coo.ca.choo on Jan 17, 2015 15:06:41 GMT -5
I personally think this is great, classy on Monte's part. I was actually thinking this was Monte extending an olive branch. I wonder if Adam will take it. What do I know but that it seems to take ALOT for Adam to ditch his friends. Why would he want him back in the fold? Trust broken. Greed over friendship. Adam has probably let go of the negativity -- but what would be the purpose of trusting this person again?
It's sad when people break trust.
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