Sken
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While we are all patiently waiting for the release I got thinking about the production cost of the new album.
Let’s compare the new album to The Joshua Tree, which according to Bono took them approx. 3 months of studio time. Now looking at the NLOTH, this has been in production for approximately 3 years.
It started with the Rick Rubin sessions, which eventually were scrapped, and in reality the real album began a little under 2 years ago.
The albums production took place in many locations, Morocco, France, New York, and Dublin to name a few. That’s a lot of time for accommodation, salaries of all extras involved outside of U2, hire of studio, transport of equipment, hire of equipment etc.
Aside from the cost of producing the cd’s for mass market, I wonder who absorbs the cost of the production, whether it be Universal or U2, or a bit of both, or for that matter what the estimated production cost would be.
Would this be a cost factored into U2’s portion of the takings, i.e. takings are then split after production cost has been covered, or is it calculated and spread across the band and Universal in another manner.
Would be curious to hear your thoughts on this, as this album may well be one of their most expensive to produce when compared to the albums of the 80’s which involved much less studio time.
Let’s compare the new album to The Joshua Tree, which according to Bono took them approx. 3 months of studio time. Now looking at the NLOTH, this has been in production for approximately 3 years.
It started with the Rick Rubin sessions, which eventually were scrapped, and in reality the real album began a little under 2 years ago.
The albums production took place in many locations, Morocco, France, New York, and Dublin to name a few. That’s a lot of time for accommodation, salaries of all extras involved outside of U2, hire of studio, transport of equipment, hire of equipment etc.
Aside from the cost of producing the cd’s for mass market, I wonder who absorbs the cost of the production, whether it be Universal or U2, or a bit of both, or for that matter what the estimated production cost would be.
Would this be a cost factored into U2’s portion of the takings, i.e. takings are then split after production cost has been covered, or is it calculated and spread across the band and Universal in another manner.
Would be curious to hear your thoughts on this, as this album may well be one of their most expensive to produce when compared to the albums of the 80’s which involved much less studio time.