SWANG said:

SwanG:

Admin. deals can include advances.

Uptown reported in an early issue that Prince received "a cool 7 million" for composing the Pepsi song "Uh Huh".It could just be a rumor though.
[This message was edited Tue Oct 15 5:45:27 PDT 2002 by DavidEye]

PrimeTime said:

An Administrator of copyrights collects royalties due the copyright holder. They take a percentage of the $ (usually around 5%) for this. Why would they advance money they haven't collected yet (and therefore, aren't able to retain their percentage of)?

-SWANGscratcheshishead

Admin. deals can include advances.[/quote]

An Administrator of copyrights collects royalties due the copyright holder. They take a percentage of the $ (usually around 5%) for this. Why would they advance money they haven't collected yet (and therefore, aren't able to retain their percentage of)?

-SWANGscratcheshishead[/quote]


As an inducement to get the writer's business. The administrator knows that if the writer has placements on a high profile project(s) or has an extensive catalog, that chances are the advance will be recouped rather quickly. The size of the advance is based upon a formula that an individual administrator devises. Remember that there are no hard and fast rules as to how any deal (pub, artist, or producer) is structured.


PrimeTimehashopefullyexplained

jseven said:

Bullshit.

jseven said:

Bullshit. YOU prove that you don't lie. The FACT is that Prince recorded Uh-huh based on the Pepsi commercial. In fact, the full story of that commercial was posted online at a reputable source (an ad website) ages ago.

LISTEN to the Prince song, you can clearly hear that the "Uh-huh" part is sampled from a TV broadcast. Why the hell would Prince need to do that if he wrote it?
[This message was edited Thu Jul 10 0:44:10 PDT 2003 by BartVanHemelen]

LOL...wassup with the constant re-viving of old threads lately? This is hilarious.Are we so starved for good discussions that we have to re-vive old threads?


But,since we're on the topic...Uptown has reported that Prince was paid "a cool seven million dollars" for writing that Coca-Cola song.

DavidEye said:

Since when is Coca-Cola and Pepsi the same thing?

BartVanHemelen said:

I am mistaken: it was MSNBC.

http://www.prince.org/msg...01&pid=551

BartVanHemelen said:

And for those that doubt the MSNBC article (since it isn't available anymore):

http://www.songwritershal...pientId=54

No mention of Prince.


http://www.vnuemedia.com/...90s_37.jsp

Diet Pepsi

Remember the Uh-Huh Girls? They appeared on Letterman; they did Oprah; they were everywhere in the early '90s. The

three women owe their 15 minutes to this lavish spot with a musical cast of hundreds. Tagline: "You got the right one, baby."

By the way, some guy named Ray Charles plays a little piano and sings a couple of bars.

Title : Performance
Year : 1991
Agency : BBDO, N.Y.
ECD : Ted Sann
SR. CD/CW : Al Merrin
AD : Richard Sabean
CW : Michael Patti
Agency Prod. : Tony Frere
Music prod. : Steve Friedman
Prod. Co. : Pytka
Dir. : Joe Pytka
Editors : Rob Watzke, Red Car
Music : Sunday Productions
Composers/Lyricists : Peter Cofield, Al Merrin

cracknbush said:

check out the Yellow boot. 'You Got The Right One Baby!'

dee2 said:

Remember how Prince was babbling about Sly & The Family Stone's "Family Affair" not being a song about a car some years ago? It's called hypocrisy -- especially when you know several former band members ain't getting the royalty checks and other payments they are entitled to.

jseven said:

BS. What he said above has been true for ages.

jseven said:

Some people should stop pretending that they work in the record industry when all they do is clean toilets at a recording studio. Publishing has got NOTHING to do with ownership of recordings.

jseven said:

Not exactly true.

First post about the deal : 11/12/01 2:35pm
http://www.prince.org/msg...1&pid=8315

Billboard mention : 01/25/02 7:37am
http://www.prince.org/msg...1&pid=8845

BartVanHemelen said:

You're thinking of "Everyday People," not "Family Affair."

Ah this thread is back again! A quick thing on the Corvette commerical. Remember they use an outtake from the SOTT movie, not the original WB recording. moreover, since WB didn't release that flick he effectively cut them out of the $$$.

I notice on TRC that universal publishing is involved, but they are not mentioned on ONA...live.

Universaluv said:

It's not an outtake since it is IN the movie.

And they didn't use the movie to spite WB, they used it because they couldn't use the original recording.

Wow Bart,this seems to be something that really interests you,huh?

BartVanHemelen said:

Pickypickypicky, sure I meant scene, rather than outtake ya got me. And I never said anything about spite, just the effect of what happened as there was some discussion about how much WB had to be involved in using his songs in a commercial.