The profits of the record labels. What else? About 3% I think it was of the total price of a CD will go to the artist. All the rest is for record labels, producers,... and their "costs". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> And rather than dropping their profit marge they trow artists out. Ask Michael Jackson and a lot of Belgian Flemish singers. They know all about that these days.
