CAUSTIC television talent show judge Simon Cowell, whose comments have reduced many an American Idol entrant to tears, says he deserves to be paid more than American rock legend Bruce Springsteen.In an interview with CBS television due to be broadcast on Sunday, Cowell says that his record label Sony BMG should pay him five times the 100 million dollars it reportedly agreed to pay The Boss in his latest contract. "I sell more records than Bruce Springsteen ... If he got 100, I should have got 500," Cowell says in the interview. "In the last five years, I've probably sold over 100 million records." Cowell, a former record producer, started as a judge on British television's elimination round talent show Pop Idol in 2001, before the show's was expanded to the United states with American Idol. "By doing Idol I signed the biggest artist on the planet and it's called Idol because every single Idol winner is now signed through Sony BMG." CBS said Cowell's deal with Sony BMG was believed to be worth about the same amount as Springsteen's. "A hundred million - that's a great deal," Cowell says in the interview. Asked if he means for himself or Springsteen, he says: "For him. For him it's a good deal." Springsteen, perhaps best known for the thumping rock anthem Born in the USA and the album Born to Run, has been a giant on the US rock scene for almost 40 years with tens of millions of records sold.
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