Not sure if someone has put this up before??

(March 14, 2003) Minneapolis - Copy Cats Digital Media facilitated the manufacture and packaging of fellow Minneapolis local Prince's CD boxed set, One Night Alone, released last December at the conclusion of the artist's tour with The New Power Generation.
The package includes the It Ain't Over CD, two live CDs from the tour and a 56-page color booklet.

Prince's production company, Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassan, MN, sent the masters and design (by Sam Jennings) to Copy Cats. "We pre-flighted all the design and orchestrated all the printing for the inserts, tray cards and booklet," said Steve Javinsky, Copy Cats owner. With the different components produced at a variety of manufacturers, it all came back to Copy Cats for assembly, packaging and fulfillment. "We fulfill all the orders for Paisley Park," he added.

Paisley Park Studios is a $10 million dollar complex for recording, rehearsal, video and film productions, also functioning as Prince's record label.

The first run was a combined order of 62,000 units, with another 25,000 ordered within two months of the album's release.
Copy Cats also manufactures special CDs for events Paisley Park hosts for Prince fans. "Prince and Paisley Park do a couple thousand CDs for these events. They give them out at the door or they mail them to the members," said Javinsky.

Copy Cats is a CD and DVD duplication, design and packaging company. "Copy Cats started about eight years ago when recordable CDs were first needed for reference CDs for customers to send to replicators. We started as a CD one-off shop and grew the business from there," said Javinsky. "We do everything from short run DVD and CD-R stuff to arranging large run CD and DVD replication jobs to the full design. If the customer doesn't have design, we have a design team. We also do creative packaging."

With a full time staff of seven plus occasional freelancers, the company does DVD-R and CD-R duplication internally on the Otari CDP 64 duplicator as well as screen printing and packaging. All the replication is sent out to smaller boutique shops. "We bring it back in and do all the fulfillment," said Javinsky.

Paisley Park Studios
www.paisleyparkstudios.com

Copy Cats Digital Media
www.cc-dm.com

http://www.medialinenews....on_8.shtml

hmmm...

At an avg $50, that nets to about $4,350,000.

I would assume the musicians were paid for the tour and don't receive royalties, and I'm sure the tour at the very least paid for itself.

The box and booklet and CDs were pretty, so I'd assume a modest $15-20 per box set manufactured, plus I would venture to guess at most maybe $20,000 for the remixing and mastering of the CD. Promotions were non-existant, and time also doesn't really factor in too much, because the songs were from the tour, so he already recorded them.

Well, these numbers are totally guesses, and I can't vouch for their accuracy, but assuming these numbers, that still leaves P with $2,950,000 to buy some ivory back scratchers, from this album alone.

Not too shabby I must say. I know, the second order of 25,000 isn't sold out yet, which I did assume. Tour made some more money, and NPGMC made more as well. Pretty good year I must say, financially speaking. Celly also probably made a few bucks. Ah, and royalties for Electric Circus and RockSteady, or was rocksteady done in 2001? Whatever, it remained a bestseller in 2002. Not including of course, his back catalogue.

I don't really care mind you, but I think it's kind of interesting to break down the numbers of Prince, a "failed" artist.
[This message was edited Tue Jun 24 14:24:49 PDT 2003 by savoirfaire]

savoirfaire said:

yes...he sooo failed.

He gets a modest stipend for Rock Steady--remember, he didn't write the song.

2freaky4church1 said:

But he did co-write a song that appeared on it...

-SWANGneverforgets

savoirfaire said:

Remind me what he's done on Common's "Electric Circus". And "Rocksteady" came out a few weeks before 2002. Yeah, he made some money on the that album. I just wish he'd work with more artists!