The "average" player in one of those sports leagues isn't really a celebrity at the level the article is talking about. Charli XCX's last album was nominated for 11 Grammies and won six of them, and it has the 15th highest aggregate rating from Metacritic of all time. If you're comparing to athletes, this is All-Star roster, potential MVP winning-level performance for at least that season. By no means it's every player who hits 50 home runs in a season is going to be set for life financially, but the chances they're going to struggle are a lot lower than some some random utility infielder or middle reliever.

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globalnode 7 hours ago | parent [-]

never heard of them before this HN article lol. the only thing that struck me was no paragraphs in the article, just one giant wall of text. and also how bored id be living that lifestyle (personally)

	▲	bigiain 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I was aware of her name, and roughly her genre, but couldn't have named or even recognised a single track of hers. I looked her up and started listening as I read the article, and the while listening to the two track released so far from her upcoming album I was thinking "this is really good, why haven't I listened to her before?" then I put on her last album Brat, and realised "Oh, right. That's not my style of music. She's never been writing for me, and I know who she is writing for, and I understand why they like her and why she's so popular." And I respect that. I'll keep an ear out for her new album, and based on what I've heard so far I fully expect to enjoy it, way more than I'm enjoying Brat. I've also added her substack to my rss feeds, no guarantee it'll stay there long term, but I'm at least curious enough to follow along for her next few blogposts.
	▲	Insanity 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I know of her name, but I couldn’t name a single song of hers. Luckily we don’t all enjoy the same music, that would be boring as well! :)
	▲	rafaele 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Did we look at the same article? I counted 6 or 7 paragraphs