Consider Gladys Knight and the Pips, or The Rolling Stones, who have been together since the beginning of time. There must be contract differences for each musician but it has not impacted the cohesion of the group.
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For bands, and such, it depends on the specifics.
For a singer example, they may have a deal with a singer alone, specifically, and then the singer has a deal with the various band members, backup singers, etc. who often simply work as their employee or contractors. This is really common.
For many bands, the band may have a specific deal, and it can be split equally or less equal, depending on the deal. Surprisingly, in bands, sometimes the employee case is true too, there may be a deal with a frontman and then they hire the rest of the band on at some rate, it happens. OR if band members change, they may not add the new band member on the deal, they may simply hire them to be part of the band at some rate.
Its also common to see band members and such be hired just for touring, and usually they are just hired much like its a regular job, but their job is to say play bass on the tour.
The deeper answer, is that the person (or band) with the record contract doesn’t make that much money from the record deal specifically–bands, singers, groups, make the vast majority of their money from touring, with a few limited exception reserved for the top of the top.
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