I truly hope so, I'd love a fifth album from her - and hopefully more original songs and less covers next time.

Agree. It is nice that she is a solo artist again. Hope she gets to work on a new album as soon as this crisis is over! We need some more solo Emma and please, some gigs would be nice :please:

Is she still with BMG?

I'm pretty sure she is, the xmas songs were with BMG.

The album is 1 year old today :o My goodness, that year went fast! A little video from Emma to mark the anniversary:

 

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She is still on BMG website (though not on the main artists' page :huh:).

 

From what we know, BMG came in on board very late or even after My Happy Place was recorded, so she might be in a sort of special deal that we don't know about. Hope they really back her up on a new album.

 

This brings some hope:

 

Metrophonic (producers) hinting at more original music

 

(although I really hope she works with better producers on new music...........)

Edited April 13, 20205 yr by Mr.X

I think BMG was the reason My Happy Place happened. She signed with them in 2018 and they recorded My happy place in Sept 2018 (in a pretty quick time). I'm sure at this point Emma/BMG and her team knew Nov announcement, end of May SW19 so My happy place was rushed together to take advantage.

 

So Emma may want to tell you it took 2 years etc but I'm pretty sure everything got rushed to release before the tour. The original plan was probably to record more original songs and take more time but covers was quick and easy to get sorted.

I love the album and the fact we got new Emma music was a huge bonus but do we really think BMG will support another album? Commercially whilst it was a good result for Emma for the record company it would have been a bit of a disaster no?

Why was it a disaster for the label? Those covers cost minimal to make, they were flogging £30 vinyls and £10 cd singles of her xmas songs.

 

The album had sold 28k WW by Aug 2019.

Why was it a disaster for the label? Those covers cost minimal to make, they were flogging £30 vinyls and £10 cd singles of her xmas songs.

 

The album had sold 28k WW by Aug 2019.

 

Is that enough for a label to cover recording, marketing, mixing/production, printing, shipping etc., etc., - I’ve no idea and glad we got a proper Emma album but I’m not sure that would be enough for a record label to invest in a follow up?

Why was it a disaster for the label? Those covers cost minimal to make, they were flogging £30 vinyls and £10 cd singles of her xmas songs.

 

The album had sold 28k WW by Aug 2019.

 

How do you know that 28k figure? It's the first time I see it stated

Jay has a friend who works at BMG that was the WW figure in Aug 2019. If Jay asked nicely we could maybe get an update on that.

Is that enough for a label to cover recording, marketing, mixing/production, printing, shipping etc., etc., - I’ve no idea and glad we got a proper Emma album but I’m not sure that would be enough for a record label to invest in a follow up?

 

I honestly don't know but seen as BMG released the xmas songs they were obviously happy enough.

 

I'm not sure what Emma's deal with them is, I would assume they don't spend a lot of money on her though.

I'd assume she/her management is funding the recording sessions (which probably aren't expensive tbh) and then they take them to BMG. I'd assume she owns the masters and that there really aren't any tracks left on the studio floor though.

The buyers paid for the shipping cost it's not like the old day that they shipped to every store worldwide. No one buys physical anymore and they had done zero marketing for her outside the UK I found out during the spiceworld tour that she released the album.

28k

 

Is this enough for a label to be happy ?

Edited April 13, 20205 yr by vibe

Exactly Tommie and Jane, the physical market is actually a huge money spinner now. A massive chunk of that 28k (which I'm sure is about 35k now) are sold direct from her webstore and label. Back in the day that 9 quid cd was sold to Asda for £5 and then Asda sold it on for £9 and the label had to pay to ship to Asda too.

 

1k signed vinyls that sold out on her webstore where postage was paid too came to £35,500.

 

If you can flog a lot of vinyls, cds and cassettes directly from a label these days you will be doing fine.

 

Also I'm sure as Tommie says she probably pays the studio time herself and just turns over the album to BMG with some guidance from them as to a time frame and content. I'm sure BMG aren't getting involved in recording or producing costs.

Edited April 13, 20205 yr by sammy01

1k signed vinyls that sold out on her webstore where postage was paid too came to £35,500.

 

So £30,000 made from the vinyl, the average cost of producing 1,000 coloured vinyl would be around £5,000 with another £1,000 for the sleeve and inserts, which takes us down to £24,000.

 

Even though the sales are direct they are done via Townsend which would charge a fee so the ‘£30k made’ soon becomes £20k etc., after VAT and tax deductions.

 

As I said I hope we get another album, I just can’t see a 28k selling album worldwide in a year be enough of an incentive for them to release a follow up? Lots of acts sell similar amounts but they also make the record company a huge amount out of touring and festivals something Emma hasn’t done outside of the RAH show.

 

 

I suppose all we can do is wait and see, hopefully they were happy enough with it to justify another album.

Emma's music is going for super cheap on Amazon:

 

CD is on £3.45

Delux is on £6.49

Life in Mono is on £4.99

 

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