Case study · Tour Finance

Stranded in Italy. Home on a royalty split

Flasyd ran the tour maths wrong and ended the run in Italy with no way back to the States. One investor wrote the cheque for the flight home — and took a share of the next release instead of a favour.

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By the numbers

$1,000

First cheque, cleared against a signed agreement

Flight home, booked the same week

30%

Royalty share offered on the next release

$11,000

Round goal to fund production and release

The tour maths went wrong

Every touring artist runs the same spreadsheet: guarantees in, travel and crew out, and a thin margin that only survives if nothing moves. Flasyd’s moved. By the end of the European run the numbers had gone the wrong way, and the band was in Italy with the return leg unfunded.

Nobody funds a flight home

A plane ticket is too small for an advance, too urgent for a grant, and too unglamorous for a label. It is also the exact kind of gap that ends careers quietly.

Advance

Too small to bother a label with, and priced in ownership you never get back.

Credit

Debt against income that hasn’t happened yet, on an artist’s balance sheet.

A favour

Works once. Isn’t a structure, and leaves the investor with nothing.

A meeting, then a term sheet

They met a wealthy investor who wanted to help. On its own that’s a story. On Bushido it became a deal: the flight home priced as an investment in Not Attached, the next release — not a handout, and not a debt.

Step 01List the releaseCosts, royalty share and release plan on one page — live the same day.

Step 02Send one private linkAccredited investors see ownership maths, fees and total due before they commit.

Step 03Money movesCheque cleared against a signed agreement, not a promise made in a green room.

The deal that bought the ticket

Tour Issue — deal terms

First cheque$1,000

Royalty share offered30%

Round progress9%

$1,000 committed$11,000 goal

First tranche covered the flight home; the balance funds studio, mixing, mastering and release of Not Attached.

Tickets are sized to the investor, not the artist — $500 buys 4.5% of the pool, with the service and processing fees shown before checkout. Flasyd keeps the master, the majority royalty split and the sync rights.

Listed from the road

The track streams on the page, so the investor hears exactly what they’re backing before the maths appears underneath it.

Bushido funding page for Tour Issue by Flasyd, with the track streaming above the investment terms — bushido.is / channels / flasyd / funding — private investor link

Flight booked. Round still open.

HomeThe cheque cleared and the flight back to the States was booked.

BackedAn emergency turned into the first position on the next release.

RetainedFlasyd keeps the master, the majority royalty split and the sync rights.

OpenThe round runs to $11,000 to fund production and release of Not Attached.

What the flight is worth

Illustrative returns on the full 30% share if the round closes at $11,000.

Streaming only$4,2004M streams · 0.4×

+ playlist & catalogue lift$11,400Break-even · 1.0×

+ one sync placement$29,7002.7×

Illustrative only. Not a forecast, guarantee, or offer. Actual royalties depend on release performance, DSP rates and sync demand.

In their words

“We didn’t need rescuing. We needed someone to be able to buy in.”

Flasyd

Bushido makes the small, urgent money investable — so a tour problem becomes a funded release instead of the end of the run.

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