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I may be able to chime in here a bit as I get to deal with these distributors directly.
As the original poster said, you're in the wrong "business" if producing dance music is your craft. If it's anything more than a hobby with a hope, you need a reality check. The only time money is ever seen is when its picked up on the commercial front from big companies which is very rare. I personally don't know a mildly successful producer to ever land a track with a big business.
This goes without saying, but I'm gonna say it anyway. File sharing has ruined the prospect for $ and ran off a ton of talented people. I know many here are new and probably don't fully understand how big the death of vinyl was, but it changed everything.
When vinyl was around, it would cost somebody a good $300 to get a nice bag of records every month or so to stay ahead with the music. That doesn't include the expensive gear (technics) and needles, etc. Now you have kids stealing intellectual property and "DJ'ing" with their laptops and its socially (and unfortunately) acceptable, so this further devalues music from both a monetary and production quality standpoint.
Anyway, I'll quit my obvious ranting of why music is bad these days.
The only thing that matters is how many units you can move. Nobody even looks at the dollar figures anymore. Not worth the time at all.
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