As we all know, dead artists get the best promotion...but why?


Because the label they were signed to makes a rediculous amount of money off of a dead artist. Here's how:

1: They don't have to pay you since you're dead!!! Like in most deals, your family has no rights to your music before or after your death and aren't owed a single cent, so what you would see as a profit now goes right back into the label.

2: Royalities!!! Royalty checks that'd normally go to you over time from things like samples, voice drops, remixes, collabs EVERYTHING now stays with the company.

3: They own your voice!!! Your "masters", which are the "master" copy of your vocals, are fully at their control now without your influence at all. The most important piece of the puzzle, if you're dead, you can't fight for, or have any hope of taking your masters, which means the label owns your music eternally. They can put out ANYTHING you recorded and cut that into songs or collabs with anybody at all - even if you would have never ever in your life done a song with that person.


They can essentially do anything they'd like with your voice and you can't complain since you're dead. Add to that, they get and absorb the checks that would normally pay YOU.


No matter what artist, no matter what art form, death in music is highly profitable.

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