BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN JUST SIGNED A 100 MILLION CONTRACT WITH SONY BMG, BUT SIMON COWELL BELIEVES HE SHOULD RECEIVE A HIGHER PAYCHECK THAN THE BOSS,

"I sell more records than Bruce Springsteen… If he got 100, I should have got 500. In the last five years, I’ve probably sold over 100 million records. By doing Idol I signed the biggest artist on the planet and it’s called Idol because every single Idol winner is now signed through Sony BMG.”
AS USUAL, HE'S GOT A POINT...

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