Simon Cowell

By admin on Tuesday, 25th November 2008 Simon Cowell thumbnail

Simon Cowell Highlights

Last year he pulled in $72 million, $45 million from Idol, $15 million from Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor (he owns both and appears as a judge on each) and $12 million of profit from his record label, which features past Idol winners. (0)

So Cowell is trying to build his company, Syco, into an entertainment phenom to produce television programs, records and movies–without featuring Simon Cowell. (0)

Shows he produces but does not star in have been relative disappointments: In the 2006–07 television season his show American Inventor (geeks compete; the winner’s idea gets marketed) attracted an average 6.4 million viewers; Idol drew 31 million. (0)

Next, spend millions of dollars grooming the star-to-be, grab the right songs, outfits and clubs to play until the first album. (0)

On the way to the American Idol set from his Beverly Hills home he had to abandon his $1.6 million Bugatti on the street because he was running out of gas and couldn’t find one of two stations that sell racing fuel. (0)

But he found himself struggling to be heard at EMI, and in 1983, at age 23, he left to start his own record label, Fanfare. (0)

Her song “So Macho” peaked at number two on the U.K. charts in 1986 and was the year’s tenth-biggest-selling hit. (0)

Find talent at a small venue and sign the singer to a contract with an advance. (0)
Couldn’t you bypass radio and get more firepower out of acts that TV had already exposed? (0)

Mix a cranky Cowell with a terrible act and you get great TV. (0)