“Friday” singer Rebecca Black has made approximately $1 million due to the song

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Rebecca Black may look like an a-hole for her lyrical ineptitude, enthusiasm for singing about the ethical quandaries of front seat/back seat selection, and possible delusion, but she’s now officially ballin’: A Forbes tabulation says there’s a good chance Ms. Black has banked around $1 million for her song “Friday”.

millionaire rebecca black 228x214 Friday singer Rebecca Black has made approximately $1 million due to the song

What Rebecca Black might look like as a millionaire. Or Mr. Peanut.

According to Forbes.com, Black has made:

-About $20,000 for being a YouTube partner with a video clocking 30,000,000 views (she should get 68% of approximately $1 per 1,000 views, according to 2010 YouTube earnings reports);
-Around $0.70 per download of “Friday” on iTunes. Expectations are that the song has been downloaded on the music service anywhere from 200,000 to 2,000,000 times (the latter would put Black at an earnout of about $1.4 million).

Plus there may be licensing and endorsement opportunities (ill-advised though they may be). So even with splitting some of this check with the creeps over at Ark Music Factory, Black is definitely doing well for herself. A week of notoriety and shame for a cool mil? That’s a deal worth taking.

If I were some 14-year-old boy in Southern California, I’d get my ass over to the Black residence immediately with a boombox and trenchcoat. There’s a decent looking millionaire girl whose idea of clever lyrics involve reciting the words we associated with the rotations of our planet. Getting into her pants and swindling some of that cash would probably take nothing more than some smooth talk, your mom’s minivan, and a 1980s Casio electronic planner.

Mock Rebecca Black All You Want, She’s Laughing To The Bank [Forbes via Gawker]

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