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Post by butterfly on Jan 17, 2015 15:43:37 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 bud on Jan 17, 2015 15:45:45 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. |
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Post by kittykay on Jan 17, 2015 17:00:58 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! There is quite a bit of follow-up in the comments section which still leads me to believe that they did overestimate which Zack comes back and agrees with. Adam still makes a lot just not as much. Click on the comments and make sure to go to page 2 to see all of the followups. www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2015/01/06/top-earning-american-idols-2014/I didn't read it as the author saying he overestimated. I read it as his continuing to explain the methods. The margin of error from rounding goes up with smaller amounts. All the idols on the list and everyone wants to talk about Adam. Others around him could have been equally as off. We know the two private gigs and Glee were not included in the estimate. That should more than make up for any rounding errors |
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Post by adamme on Jan 17, 2015 17:24:30 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.
it's possible that he cannot get data/information on some of Adam's works. Or Adam and management don't want that kind of publicity.
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Post by adamme on Jan 17, 2015 17:31:18 GMT -5
I don't think he really needs Adam as far as his career goes. He was well-established before Adam was even on AI. Yeah, but maybe Madonna and/or Monte's other high-powered contacts haven't called him lately. If I were Adam, I would acknowledge with a simple "Thanks" then leave it at that.  |
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Post by happycat14 on Jan 17, 2015 19:13:34 GMT -5
From the TCA Live blog about American Idol. Hopefuily this will show up. One of the reporter's tweets about the panel:
Debra Birnbaum
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Scott Borchetta on contestants that got away: Most of the world thinks Adam Lambert won. #AmericanIdol #Fox #TCA15
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Post by adamme on Jan 17, 2015 20:37:42 GMT -5
From the TCA Live blog about American Idol. Hopefuily this will show up. One of the reporter's tweets about the panel: Debra Birnbaum @debrabirnbaum Scott Borchetta on contestants that got away: Most of the world thinks Adam Lambert won. #AmericanIdol #Fox #TCA15
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Here's what he said from MJ's site, "Most of the world thinks Adam won,” Borchetta said of Adam Lambert, the season 8 runner up. He feels his job is to make sure that after the winner is crowned, they’ve been given the opportunity to succeed."
The thing is the winner have been given the a lot of opportunity to succeed, but when the talent's of the runner up was off the scale compare to the winner, you cannot said that they've not been given the opportunity to succeed. The winner's promotion after the announcement was way more than Adam the runner up. And he shouldn't blame the world they think Adam is the winner. With a talent and charisma like Adam there's no other option for the world to think Adam than winning AI.. 
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Post by adamme on Jan 17, 2015 20:40:34 GMT -5
Love your new avi ladyoz. Beautiful and Perfect! |
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Post by noreaster on Jan 17, 2015 21:54:06 GMT -5
From the TCA Live blog about American Idol. Hopefuily this will show up. One of the reporter's tweets about the panel: Debra Birnbaum @debrabirnbaum Scott Borchetta on contestants that got away: Most of the world thinks Adam Lambert won. #AmericanIdol #Fox #TCA15
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Here's what he said from MJ's site, "Most of the world thinks Adam won,” Borchetta said of Adam Lambert, the season 8 runner up. He feels his job is to make sure that after the winner is crowned, they’ve been given the opportunity to succeed."
The thing is the winner have been given the a lot of opportunity to succeed, but when the talent's of the runner up was off the scale compare to the winner, you cannot said that they've not been given the opportunity to succeed. The winner's promotion after the announcement was way more than Adam the runner up. And he shouldn't blame the world they think Adam is the winner. With a talent and charisma like Adam there's no other option for the world to think Adam than winning AI..
"Most of the world thinks Adam won." He says that like it's a bad thing. Personally, I'm just fine with it! |
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