Simon Cowell: “I sell more records than Bruce Springsteen”
For Simon Cowell, American Idol means one thing and one thing only. ‘My only interest was Idol was my vehicle to launch records. That was the only thing I was thinking about,’ said Cowell during an interview for CBS’ 60 Minutes that will air this Sunday night. ‘But what we actually did interestingly, was by doing Idol, I signed the biggest artist on the planet… and it’s called Idol. Because every single Idol winner is now signed to Sony BMG. And this applies to all the countries we sell [Idol] to, which is over 30 countries. So there’s probably now, 75 to 100 artists who all signed through (via iJam Virtual Personal Channel)
POSTED Sunday March 25th
