Talk:List of most expensive albums

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 * The recording process traditionally requires an investment in studio time and skilled production labor, and the process can be expensive [...] Even putting notorious examples aside, traditional production has been expensive. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (IFPI), production costs for popular albums are "generally budgeted for at least $200,000, and, if much studio time is used, costs can soar well past $350,000". | Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us, pp 34-35 by Joel Waldfogel


 * The record industry is the only one, even among the entertainment industries, in which the creative artist is ultimately charged for the entire cost of producing the work. | Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis, pag 262 by Harold L. Vogel


 * 5,000 and 7,500 average cost of albums in Scandinavia (1974)


 * Other examples (covers/more):


 * The most expensive album ever issued in England, RCA Victor's " South Pacific" | Electronic Age 1961


 * 1967 The Beatles the most expensive packaging of any British pop album ever


 * The album cover of " Elvis Presley " was decorated with a photographic portrait of Elvis, but what a por- trait ! ... dimensional photograph was said at the time of its release to be the most expensive album cover ever produced


 * Aladdin Sane (David Bowie) the most expensive album cover.


 * Janet Jackson and Her 3-Million-Dollar Men


 * More commonly, an independent label spends somewhere between $1,500 and $10,000 to record an album


 * And as much as £ 300,000 can be spent on producing a single . So far, says messonier , the British record companies who have signed up African musicians haven't been prepared to spend more than £ 20,000 on producing an album.


 * 1996: $200,000, Sister Drum is the most expensive album ever produced in China. Most other Chinese albums cost 100 times less.

--Apoxyomenus (talk) 04:50, 9 September 2023 (UTC)