With record sales plummeting to new lows, here's how top stars are helping pay their bills. Over the past decade-plus, the old-fashioned way of making money in the music business — selling recorded albums — has dropped off a cliff, splintered into a zillion pieces and been run over by that methylene train from Breaking Bad. Many top stars have switched their focus to selling concert tickets; while this is a prudent plan, generally speaking, it's getting trickier now that everyone else is on the road with the same idea.

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But call option journal entries still money out there. Pop stars just have to be creative. What ways is he talking about?

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