Originally Posted by victoriasponge:
“As I understand it The Wanted were huge in the States, complete with a TV show of their own. Just because they weren't as big in the UK as e.g. JLS doesn't mean they weren't massive earners elsewhere on the planet, even after their manager and all the rest of the retinue took their cuts. And actually if you sell out the O2 arena, you are pretty big in the UK too imo.
Also the band lasted five years. At one time they were supposed to be bigger that ID and we all know how much money they've made.
I agree that manufactured groups starting off generally make little money and/or get royally ripped off, but that's not what we're talking about here.
I would be very surprised if he isn't a millionaire, and good luck to him - but I think it;s very manipulative of that article to suggest he's scraping around to pay his bills!!”
“As I understand it The Wanted were huge in the States, complete with a TV show of their own. Just because they weren't as big in the UK as e.g. JLS doesn't mean they weren't massive earners elsewhere on the planet, even after their manager and all the rest of the retinue took their cuts. And actually if you sell out the O2 arena, you are pretty big in the UK too imo.
Also the band lasted five years. At one time they were supposed to be bigger that ID and we all know how much money they've made.
I agree that manufactured groups starting off generally make little money and/or get royally ripped off, but that's not what we're talking about here.
I would be very surprised if he isn't a millionaire, and good luck to him - but I think it;s very manipulative of that article to suggest he's scraping around to pay his bills!!”
Actually, i seem to remember that each member of 1d didn't make much more than 10 million. I know that sounds crazy money, but when you are on those sort of positions you don't actually have 10m in the bank. Houses bought, investments, family, employees, leeches...
I would imagine Jay is not broke by any means but he is only 25 and probably not even 5 mil in total. He probably doesn't get many royalties as he doesn't write songs as far as I know.
So Yes, he probably has bills to pay like taxes accountants and so much more that we can't think of.




and a burger chain (when he's vegetarian)