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Coming SoonFILE № 001 / MONEY × MUSICFeature Documentary — Coming Soon
The Million-Dollar Myth
An animated documentary walking through how a hypothetical $1M record deal is allocated, spent and recouped — and why the headline number rarely matches what lands in an artist's account.
- 01 — The headline number$1,000,000
- 02 — Where it's splitAdvance vs. budget
- 03 — What gets paid back firstRecoupment
- 04 — What's left for the artistRoyalty rate
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The Departments
- Dept. 01MusicDeals, catalogs, credits and the business under the beat.
- Dept. 02CultureBlack culture, context and the moments that moved it.
- Dept. 03SportsContracts, careers and the stories past the box score.
- Dept. 04MoneyWhere the money actually goes — and who keeps it.
- Dept. 05CampusStudent life, NIL and the economics of the quad.
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