Last week, we reported Oliver Anthony, singer of the protest song “Rich Men North of Richmond”, turned down an $8 million country music deal. Now, the huge amount he is making per day from his self-released songs has been revealed, and you won’t believe how much it is!
🚨 JUST IN: Breakout country music star Oliver Anthony has turned down offers of up to $8,000,000 since it went viral!
He is refusing to let them control him!
🎶 “These rich men north of Richmond – god knows they all just want total control” 🎶
God bless this man! pic.twitter.com/nZlCkaRDFA
— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) 18 August 2023
Anthony is making huge amount of money per day
new york post It is reported that Anthony is making a whopping $40,000 a day from “Rich Men North of Richmond”. The money has mainly been generated from downloads on streaming sites like iTunes and Spotify, as the song has skyrocketed on music charts since its release on August 11.
In its first week of release, “Rich Men North of Richmond” received 147,000 downloads on iTunes, which pays up to 70 cents per download, meaning Anthony earned approximately $102,000.
Most of the remaining $40,000 a day Anthony brings in comes from royalties from streaming services like Spotify, which pays about 4 cents per stream.
An additional portion of this money is likely to come from sales and other distribution sites such as Bandcamp and Patreon, where artists are able to “set the price” of their work. according to anthony band camp Profile, he sells tracks on that platform for $1 per download or stream. Meanwhile, on his Patreon On the page, fans can get early access to Anthony’s content for a $1 or $3 monthly fee.
Anthony currently lives in a $750 camper he bought on Craigslist, and it’s located on a property in Farmsville, Virginia that he bought for $97,500. Despite this, he “rejected” an $8 million country music deal that was offered to him following the success of his song.
“I don’t want 6 tour buses, 15 tractor trailers and a jet. I don’t want to play stadium shows, I don’t want to be in the limelight,” he said in a speech facebook post, “I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering from mental health and depression.”
“No editing, no agents, no hooliganism. Just some idiot and his guitar,” he continued. “The genre of music we shouldn’t have strayed from in the first place.”
“Rich Men North of Richmond” was the most listened to track in the world in the past 24 hours.
There are hundreds of millions of plays of this American working man’s protest song.
Sung by an off-the-grid farmer in the countryside with his dogs.
Follow Oliver Anthony here: @AintGotaDollar pic.twitter.com/xKEgZQXYx4
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) 11 August 2023
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‘The Rich Man North of Richmond’
“Rich Men North of Richmond” has resonated with the public because Anthony uses the song’s lyrics to express the frustration of millions of working class Americans as he attacks politicians, welfare recipients and taxes.
“These rich guys north of Richmond / Lord knows they all just want complete control / Want to know what you think / Want to know what you do / And they don’t think you know, but me Know that you do,” he sings. “‘Cause your dollar ain’t s***, and it’s infinitely taxed / ‘Cause rich people north of Richmond.”
Another line of the song says, “Lord, we’ve got people on the street, they’ve got nothing to eat and fat milkmen on welfare.” “Well gosh, if you’re 5 feet 3 inches and weigh 300 pounds, you shouldn’t be paying tax for your bag of Fudge Rounds.”
“Your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed unlimited / ‘Cause rich people north of Richmond,” he sings at a different point.
Rich Men North Of Richmond has been uploaded to all major streaming platforms and will be out there in a few days.
I am still in a state of shock from the outpouring of love I have seen in the comments, messages and emails. I am trying to reply to all as soon as possible. pic.twitter.com/iScaYp9AWQ
— Oliver Anthony (@AintGotaDollar) 11 August 2023
Connected: Conservatives are going nuts over this viral protest song from a Virginia farmer
Anthony can get a better deal
Ross Michaels, co-president and founder of Park Avenue Artists, said that Anthony could potentially take advantage of the success of “Rich Men North of Richmond” to get himself a better deal than the $8 million he was already offered. .
“He could probably negotiate [the money split] Beyond that, where a record label would give him an advance to keep recording and an advance for a marketing budget,” Michaels explained, sometimes artists are offered “solo deals where you get paid a lot. Goes “Money for just one person and you can remain independent.”
Others have said that bypassing corporate-run record labels and going it alone could be beneficial to Anthony in the long run.
Longtime musician Roger Street Freedman, who has self-released several albums, said “the fact that it went viral nullified many of the advantages of having a record label, which would be the effects of promotion, marketing and distribution”. ” “She also sounds like a person who doesn’t necessarily trust ‘the man.'”
🚨 Oliver Anthony releases new song ‘Brink of War’
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) 23 August 2023
The success of “Rich Men North of Richmond” shows that Americans are fed up with the sleazy material that most of the music industry has been putting out over the years. In the end, Anthony may have made the best decision to avoid being tied down to a major record label, as he seems to be doing just fine on his own!
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