London-based singer earns £1m deal through webcam gigs
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London-based singer Sandi Thom has landed herself a £1m five-album deal with RCA/Sony BMG after performing for fans worldwide over a webcam.
The unknown artist (and her band) attracted some 200,000 viewers to her internet shows, held nightly at her basement flat in Tooting. Her three-week series, Twenty One Nights From Tooting, initially attracted 70 viewers, but by two weeks in that figure swelled to 182,000.
Thom, 24, said: "It's been a whirlwind. We never realised we'd be in this position just a few weeks after deciding to stick a webcam in the basement. We were basically too poor to tour. We brought in so little money thrashing up and down the country in my car - which is a total heap.
"It was so expensive playing to 200 people a night. We thought 'Surely there must be another way?'"
RCA's Craig Logan said: "Sandi is a very talented artist with an already unique story. We're very excited that we're now going to be a part of that story as she develops into a major artist.'"
Thom's first album, Smile, It Confuses People, is out on June 5th.
Sandi Thom
i'm getting bored of these internet fanbased people now...
it's sooo last year
wut?
theyre going from too poor to tour to having the album out in 2 months?
ummmmmm artic monkeys-esque "wow internet grass roots support" hype scam?
!
Is she the one who was on TOTP the other night doing that Anti-war song?
Dunno
But I'd never heard of her before today.
Which is weird for someone with a big internet fanbase. You'd think someone on here would give her a mention.
and
she says it was expensive playing to 200 people a night?! Thats a fucking stadium crowd compared to normal unsigned attendance. Whayayaughta.....
I dream...
of such attendances.
Craig Logan you say??
is this the same craig logan that 'played bass' for Bros ??
she sounds
exactly like that knobhead KT tunstall.
yes
he's the managing director of rca now.
She was on...
...BBC news a few weeks ago talking about how her popularity's grown.
RCA got an album out of her fast enough, like.
ugh
what an extremely annoying smart-arse album title
i have already made several assumptions about her personality
well there you go
proof that the cream always rises to the top
or something
well
why don't you just marry her then
Bollocks
It's a weird type of hype that tries to present the artist in an entirely false way.
Her album was recorded before RCA took an interest; she was signned to Legacy Records. She had a single out last year, has been on the radio several times, studied at Paul McCartney's Institute For Performing Arts and has done more gigs than most "unsigned" artists.
RCA are trying to con an assumed but probably spurious demographic who revel in the "unknwown" artsist.
Plus, a million-pound five-album deal is only 200,000 per album; after all the rip-off expenses Ms. Thom won't have much money left.
seems a little fishy
to me.
the internet is dead
i'm releasing my debut album on donkey. it will sing a song every time you throw a rock at its head. then i'm going on an exclusive barnyard tour of the UK, playing only to filthy filthy animals. then i'm going to sign a massive record deal and move to devon to live in a trough of shit with my two million pounds.
no it isn't
It's just a business.
Also
What's wrong with her forehead?
bah
I'm not even going to release an album or write any music or play any instrument ever. That's how future I am.
.
ha ha ha
I bet 'echoproject' is one of the blood sucking pr cunts paid to hype that shit.
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