There were others?! Feel like so many already mentioned
what a weird thing s club juniors was... Now all those exploited child performers are on YouTube, but they probably make far more money. I doubt s club juniors made much at all, it would have all gone to people at the label. Even real s club must have earned very little relative to their success and how much was actually made. That’s one good thing about the decline of mainstream music and rise of YouTube - at least sleazy execs at record labels aren’t able to exploit so many and become incredibly rich from it. Yes it still happens at influencer management agencies but people can do it on their own - they aren’t obliged to go through a label to get music out. And I think management offer much fairer contracts now because they arent the only option.