Can you make a living by producing & DJing?

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Posted by dj kinetica on Jun-19-2002 13:37:

Can you make a living by producing & DJing?

Yes no? how much do you think tiesto AvB PvD etc get paid for doing a set??? How much do you think they get for a remix request? etc etc

Posted by flystyler on Jun-19-2002 13:49:

YES

U cna make a huge amount of money if you hit the big time. They are getting many thousands of pounds for doing a 2 hour set. And im not sure about remixing

Posted by Robert on Jun-19-2002 13:49:

i've heard cass 'n slide ask 8000 pounds for a remix.

Posted by extepan on Jun-19-2002 13:52:

i know that even some unknown djs can get 5000 pounds for playing a night at a club in uk! oh man, i wanna learn how to become a dj and i can live the perfect life!!

Posted by Miss Proximus on Jun-19-2002 13:58:

I read in a dutch televisionguide that Mauro pPicotto earns around 250,000 Euros a month, only by dj-ing!!!

And he's also a labelmanager, AND his productions are very profitable

Posted by trancedance on Jun-19-2002 14:17:

$$$$$$

I have a hard time believing this, but I heard that PVD was once paid $18,000 to DJ at the Hard Rock cafe in Las Vegas. If that is true, that I'm in the wrong profession (IT field).

Posted by kr00t0n on Jun-19-2002 14:27:

Carl Cox originally asked for R1 000 000 for his NYE set 1999/2000 (Thats roughly �71 000), but seeing as Cape Town is his favourite place to Dj, he dropped it down to R100 000, isn't he nice

Posted by nate735 on Jun-19-2002 14:53:

quote:
Originally posted by extepan
i know that even some unknown djs can get 5000 pounds for playing a night at a club in uk! oh man, i wanna learn how to become a dj and i can live the perfect life!!

Perfect life?

What about when you wan't to get married and settle down (pvd) He comes home every the morning after spining at a superclub probably spends no time with his family. You really have to devote your life to this or else its not gonna happen.

Posted by JPJH on Jun-19-2002 18:08:

If your in it for money you'll never make it. It's gotta come from the soul. Then the money will come. There is too much competition nowadays to make big bucks in this industry. And nate is right, these guys spend a lot of time away from home following their dreams. Much respect to all the djs/producers who made it.

Posted by Nell on Jun-19-2002 18:16:

unless your the best of the best, you wont make it big time as a DJ. youll have to produce first (prefelably a remix), mayeb make your own stuff theb get good at that then DJ. producing is the only way forward, theres to many DJ's out there. look in the town or city you live in think how many there are of them. ID love to DJ, but im going to produce some remixes in my spare tiem first. just remixes dust.wav but it aint that good, so gunna try sunburn instead

Posted by Nucleogenesis on Jun-19-2002 21:14:

yes

ya sure , but you gotta be popular though

Posted by TranceSafari on Jun-19-2002 21:47:

There is a lot of $ to be made DJing

It really depends on the DJ and the venue. I live in Indianapolis Indiana, USA, and I work at a local night club here, mid-level DJ's like Christopher Lawrence can cost $6000 or more. I also know that it cost $60,000, yes that is $60,000, to bring the Sasha and Digweed tour here a couple of months ago. Not all that money goes to the DJ since it was a huge tour where they brought there own sound system and lighting. If you figure they did 20 cities or so on that tour at $60,000 each, that is over a million dollars. I don't know how much Sasha and Digweed received, but I bet it was a lot.

Posted by Robert on Jun-19-2002 22:01:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ NEILSON
unless your the best of the best, you wont make it big time as a DJ. youll have to produce first (prefelably a remix), mayeb make your own stuff theb get good at that then DJ. producing is the only way forward, theres to many DJ's out there. look in the town or city you live in think how many there are of them. ID love to DJ, but im going to produce some remixes in my spare tiem first. just remixes dust.wav but it aint that good, so gunna try sunburn instead

remixes are the best way to get quick money, however to be able to get remixes done you'll probably have to produce at least one own track first.

Posted by extepan on Jun-21-2002 07:09:

what do you think is the best way to get knnown? does posting your own track on mp3.com work?

Posted by branmuffin on Jun-21-2002 07:20:

Well, I have heard of Oakenfold and PvD both getting paid in the 25,000+ USD range before, and that is for one night. Sometimes, PvD will even play multiple places the same night (different states even) and collect massive amounts of money at each party, so he could make close to 100k if he really works on it.

As for local DJ's, there are a few big name local dj's in my area who charge between $500-1000 a night, but they only spin once a month or so.

But unless you are really good, you dont have a clue. And even being good is not good enough, you have to be recognized. At least in my area, unless your name, and your name alone will draw thousands of party kids, you wont get paid shit.

So if you want to do it for a career, dont. Get a real job, just do it for the fun, and if you make it, good for you. :-)

Posted by Dj Ahter on Jun-21-2002 09:36:

quote:
Originally posted by extepan
what do you think is the best way to get knnown? does posting your own track on mp3.com work?

Hey man how do you register @ MP3.com??? DO you have to pay anything???

Posted by Dj Fred Lamar on Jun-21-2002 13:13:

quote:
Originally posted by extepan
what do you think is the best way to get knnown? does posting your own track on mp3.com work?

The radio for me is a good method....did a few trks amd sibmitted to the radio station and they play it every know and then.......I'm just waiting to produce the ultimate trk that will blow everyone at the station away and atleast get me known in the local area....After you get recognized in the local area.....word spreads.....

Posted by DJ Chrono on Jun-21-2002 14:19:

yeah, I'm getting one of my tracks played at a local nightclub on the 7th.. it's a good start, if the crowd likes it, the radio DJ guy there will bring it on the radio.. from there, who knows what will happen

Producing a track takes alot of time and hard work, but once you get that first track on vinyl, it should get alot easier from there.

Posted by BTG on Jun-21-2002 14:20:

i heard somehwere..that tiesto made $40,000/night at one time. of course..my source isn't very reliable, but i'd like to belive it.

Posted by DJ Chrono on Jun-21-2002 14:24:

mp3.com is free.. they do have the Premium Artist Service, which costs $20 a month.. and with that you get fast song approvals, and high prority search results.

I used that service for a while, and it was really good, I got around 80 listens/downloads a day.

and back then I was actually MAKING money from mp3.com .. about $40 US a month.. subtract $20 for the service.. but $20 is better than none. But then.. they went and got sued,, and started being cheap, and decreased how much u get paid per listen/download.. so I cancelled the service. now I get only a few listens per day, but I dont really care.. after getting 15,000 listens and downloads, it got my name around abit, but thats about all. Im focusing on sending a Demo cd to lables now.. should be more effective than mp3.com

Posted by trancedance on Jun-21-2002 20:26:

Top pay for top DJ's

quote:
Originally posted by BTG
i heard somehwere..that tiesto made $40,000/night at one time. of course..my source isn't very reliable, but i'd like to belive it.

I responded earlier to this thread by saying I heard PVD got Somewhere around $18,000 for spinning in Las Vegas. Am I the only only one who thinks its insane to dish out that kind of money? I've been to events where AVB, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten where spinning and half the people didn't even know who they were.