So this isn't exactly Chart territory, but when hard-working indies can't hack it and stories about festival headliners living modestly abound, then, a gut-check like this lands on your desk, you can't help but bask in big numbers.
This sort of disclosure is rare, but because of the copyright trial brought by the family of Marvin Gaye (alleging "Blurred Lines" substantially rips off "Got to Give it Up"), we now know that the certified 2013 Song of the Summer made $16,675,690 profit.
Robin Thicke was paid $5,658,214 and Pharrell made $5,153,457 plus $4.3 million in publishing royalties and another $860,000 in producer royalties, while T.I. was given a not-measly $704,774 for his guest verse, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
And perhaps the most harrowing number of all: a Universal Music executive testified that the overhead cost for the production of "Blurred Lines" amounted $6.9 million. For one song. Sounds like a lot of lunch meetings at Urasawa or something.
Anyway, here's a short list of things Thicke and Pharell can now buy with the loot from that one garbage, maybe pilfered, catchy song: a 100-carat yellow diamond, this 250-acre island in the Bahamas, like, 10.5 million McDoubles.
Do you ever want to look at the thing again?
“Blurred Lines” made $16,675,690 by chris hampton | Chart Attack.
