#127

I’ve got nothing to do at work, this looks like fun. How are you searching for these bands/people? I want some of it

#129

Companies House, various other country’s equivalents, etc

#130

I’m on that, but am I searching for a band name, names of people in the band?

#131

if they’re not a registered company or don’t have their own label/publishing/management who are registered then you won’t be able to easily find the info

#132

cheers

complicated innit

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#133

basically the publisher owns the composition (melody & lyrics…and the sheet music - hence ‘publisher’) & the record label own the actual recording (as well as usually having an exclusivity deal re: the artist)

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#134

This stuff is endlessly fascinating to me for some reason. The other thing it’s good for is spotting which bands have members who aren’t really members but employees of the band’s limited company.

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#135

Need to write a hit!

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#136

I know 4 people who have written proper earner hit records

one of them is doing very well indeed and is a major industry player

one of them has it as the base for their still mildly commercially successful and very highly critically acclaimed career

one of them has done nothing significant since their hit but continues to live off it and has a pretty great lifestyle just doing what the fuck they please

the other one is a total drug casualty forever trying to recapture that hit moment and lowering himself to appear in dubious reality TV shows with the occasional interesting side project in moments of clarity post-rehab

which one are you?

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#137

Yeah, Noddy and Jimmy’s pension plan. I think they get six figures every April every year without fail.

Poor Dave and Don, meanwhile, are out on the road performing probably as both Slade and a Slade tribute act.

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#138

this might help

#139

I knew someone who fronted a one-hit-wonder band from the mid-00s; I’ve always respected their total refusal to go down the cling-to-fame route despite only being 19 or so at the peak of their ‘fame’.

They were offered Celebrity Big Brother a couple of years after the song charted, after their second album sank without trace but turned it down, went to uni and now has a pretty satisfying career doing something completely non-music-related.

My 2nd cousin on the other hand had a brief flirtation with fame in the early 80s (he co-wrote a Fleetwood Mac single), dived headfirst into the LA music scene and as a result is constantly reliving his glory days. Come to think of it, he’s probably a candidate for the OP question. Pretty sure once that song made it onto Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits, he stopped having to worry about money.

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#140

If it’s the person & the track I think it is then he’s probably doing just fine off that one song alone

(spooky coincidence. Not more than an hour ago I was talking to a friend who is releasing a track and can’t remember where he got the sample he used on the intro and was fretting about it. I told him not to fret as another friend of mine had sampled the intro of your 2nd cousin’s track without clearance and nobody seemed to notice or care)

#141

I would be number 3 from that list I think

:+1:

#142

I can barely put two chords together!

#143

This isn’t true at all actually -
I’m well good (not great at actually finishing anything tho)

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#144

?

I imagine HAIM having covered it immediately before blowing up probably hasn’t hurt either.

#145

oh, it wasn’t this one. I thought your 2nd cousin might have been Eddy Quintela (who co-wrote Little Lies)

#146

I would wager that ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ by Cyndi Lauper generates a livable income p/a

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#147

Oh, if only.