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Originally posted by unbothered
!!! Her Virgin contract was $80 million ALONE!!!
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that doesn't mean anything. Mariah supposedly got 20m$ in advance to record the soundtrack (+ royalties for the songwriting, ~3,750,000) + 28 million$ for leaving them...
20,000,000 + 3,750,000 + 28,000,000 = 51,750,000 for Glitter. But in the same time her debut album and early recordings did not bring her much cash, as her contract with sony is reportedly to be only worth 600,000$.. it's also doubtful that she got much royalties for her songwriting... I think Mariah only earned as much as 10-15 million$ until Music Box.
if nothing changed after TEOM Mariah received a paycheck of 4 million$ for CB, TEOM, EMC˛ and Memoirs and MCCIIY.
advance pay + royalties per island albums:
CB: 4,000,000 + 4,500,000 = 8,500,000
TEOM: 4,000,000 + 15,000,000 = 19,000,000
E=MC˛: 4,000,000 + 3,750,000 = 7,750,000
Memoirs: 4,000,000 + 1,500,000 = 5,500,000
MCIIY: 4,000,000 + 1,125,000 = 5,125,000
Island years should have brought in ~45,765,000 US$ + her Virgin year = 97,625,000
Mariah has earned an estimated 100 million$ in the past decade from music alone. I think she earned between 125-150 million$ in the 1990's and if we add touring and commercials she shud cross 300,000,000 in net worth by now.