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Why no reissues?

everything was remastered a while back though.

but that doesn't answer your question, i know.

I think she does. She's not as dumb as PRN!

IstenSzek said:

Everything was remastered?

I thnk her 80's stuff sounded great anyway; it was well recorded; i was just wondering who owns it becuase Prince wanted her to help him with his masters, didn;t he?

Madonna's original recording contract was with Sire and not with Warner. Warner just distributed the Sire releases.

dogmaiswrong said:

i think prince asked madonna to help him get his masters back because
she was the most powerfull artist in association with them at the time.

i doubt she owns her masters from her 80s material though.

IstenSzek said:

I think she does. But we don't have have evidence of that. Madonna is very secretive about business

MikeMatronik said:

well i'm pretty sure she owns the masters from everything since
she started the maverick label, but i also think that back when
she first came out in the early 80's she was like everyone else
and signed the contracts most of them signed, not knowing just
how much control and ownership they signed away at that point.

IstenSzek said:

Still U2 own their masters, because of their manager and the fact they settled with low royalties with the record company. If I'm not mistaken, U2 own a bit of Island Records

MikeMatronik said:

yeah so if U2 released remasters they would be $$$$$?

dogmaiswrong said:

yep

dogmaiswrong said:

Her first three albums ('Madonna','Like A Virgin' and 'True Blue') have already been remastered.I still don't know why they haven't remastered 'Like A Prayer' yet.I know that Warners wants to release a multi-disc box set,but Madonna refuses to participate.Like Prince,she hates compilations and looking back on her career.

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[Edited 1/19/07 5:34am]

SoulAlive said:

That seen in the punishement that was GHV2!

I don't think she'd be interested in owning that kind of records herself, she has taste to a moderate degree at least.

novabrkr said:

novabrkr said:

i would of said the same thing but i bought immaculate collection and gh2 and they are excellent. the 80's stuff actually sounds better becuase for some reason some of the other stuff is bass heavy fopr i don't know what reason.

Maybe 'madge' doesn't want to acknowledge all those early hits that others wrote for her?

MikeMatronik said:

What makes you think that man is dumb? Everytime they play a Prince song he's getting paid! Contrary to popular belief, Prince isn't as dumb as you think. The brother has some juice at WB even though he's no longer affiliated with the label.

poeticrockstar said:

All artists that have written their hit song get money. It's called publishing!
[Edited 1/19/07 8:02am]

dogmaiswrong said:

I hope she detroys the masters of the Like A virgin album. It's the biggest piece of shit ever made

MikeMatronik said:

Not really, my brother. You got a lot of artists walking around today with multi-million sellers and on welfare.

What Prince say: "you can platinum four times/and still couldn't make/what I make in a week!"

poeticrockstar said:

Yes, that's true. Little Richard is case if I'm not mistaken

MikeMatronik said:

I read somewhere that Little Richard was only paid a 1/2 cent royalties for each record that he sold. That doesn't sound believable, but that is what I read. Btw, Little Richard lost all rights to his recordings and Michael Jackson bought them. However, he returned them all to Little Richard FREE OF CHARGE. He purchased them with the sole intent to return them to Little Richard. There are so many great things that MJ has done that people don't realize or don't want to acknowledge.

i've never heard of madonna owning her masters. in fact, i'm sure i read somewhere that she was able to get maverick as a vanity label as part of the deal for letting warner keep the masters. then all that stuff happened with maverick and warner...i thought that also had something to do with master recordings but i could be wrong.

i think madonna would be worth more than 350 million if she owned her masters, wouldn't she?

who knows

MikeMatronik said:

Here we go again?!?!

MikeMatronik said:

Owning publishing rights to songs is different to owing the "masters". Master's are the overall sound recording of the albums. Record companies normally pay for their artists recording sessions, which is way they and not the artists often own the masters of their albums.

I'm not too sure if Madonna owns the masters of her albums. And I'm not too sure what her publishing rights to her songs are, as she co-writes nearly all of her songs with sometimes up to 5 co-writers. So the income from her publishing will be split among a few people, not just Madonna. Prince won't have to slplit his publish with any co-writers and he writes all of his song (except a few) by himself. If Prince ever gets to own the masters to his albums he will beable to distribute his Warner Bros albums through different record companies.

MikeMatronik said:

I would'nt be too sure that she does. Madonna is smart in the way she promotes herself, and who she gets the best out of her collaboraters (as Madonna's depends on them for creativity). But as a pure business woman, Madonna's not as smart as her fans think she is. Her co-owned Maverick label lost Warner Bros over $100, and they acutally sued her to get the money back, as her lable never made any profit. The Madonna and her associaties counter sued, but Maverick was given to Warner Bros as an out of court settlement, and I think closed down.
[Edited 1/21/07 2:16am]

sallysassalot said:

As far as i know Madge owns everything from Erotica on. The lawsuit was a breach of contract filed by the owners of Maverick against the owners of the Warner Music Group and WMG coutersued Maverick. WMG settled with the Maverick owners and Madge walked away from Maverick 10million richer. At this time Madonna was looking at leaving WMG but the President of the label has been replaced and Madonna is content with staying at WMG.


And the Forbes list is a convervative estimate. they even admit that they are low balling Madonna's estimated wealth
[Edited 1/20/07 9:12am]

I would think that she does own her master tapes, at least from "Erotica" and everything else afterward. However, wasn't she against the release of GHV2? If she did own the masters, surely she could have prevented WB from putting it out.

If she indeed doesn't own the masters, look at it this way: She sure as hell ain't gonna go broke because of it(with her worth of at least $500 million. $350 million is indeed too conservative of an amount for Madonna).

I would really doubt that she does. Nobody back in the 80's or mid-90's really concerned themselves with owning. Prince was one of the first (but not THE first) to question the whole system of ownership.

I think with all the various producers and songwriters she enlists, she probably would take more of an "up-front" payment than a long-term plan.