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Originally posted by Nemesis44 It depends on your contract with the label.

QFT

Everything depends on the contract in regards to royalties, etc.

Regardless of buying vinyl or digital downloads though, you are supporting the artist either way.

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Originally posted by Chris Allen Regardless of buying vinyl or digital downloads though, you are supporting the artist either way.

Indeed.

Whether you want to buy one format over another if the artist gets more from it depends how far you want to go... if you really wanna support him, wire him the contents of your bank account.

I don't see the point in going out of your way to give an artist a couple of extra pence at most, when the other options are all totally legal.

Thinking about it, I can imagine the reason that would make the vinyl support the artist a lot more would be that effectively you're buying 2 or 3 tracks... but if you only want one of them, you might as well just go and buy the track you want on mp3 and then a couple of their other tracks which you don't like - amounts to the same and of course would be daft.

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It all depends on the contract. The more unknown you are the more likely you are to be paid only a flat fee for the track then it becomes the property of the label who gets to keep any money they make from the sales. Sometimes you will get a small amount per sale but only a small amount as almost nobody gets to keep full rights to their masters.

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Originally posted by Dew50 so it's possible to track the number of downloads that each track gets? that's another thing i always wondered about

Of course it flippin' is! We're living in modern times.....

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Originally posted by Jarvmeister Of course it flippin' is! We're living in modern times.....

haha i figured it was, i just didn't know if the sites were willing to share all that info with the labels.

thanks for everyone else who responded, lots of good info here

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Originally posted by epdarks From what I understand the artist is send a check every month based on the # of downloads.

yeh im pretty sure thats right

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so from a 1.99 download at beatport... or wherever...

how much of that goes to the label?

then

how much of what goes to the label goes to the artist?


anyone know?

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Originally posted by mylespower so from a 1.99 download at beatport... or wherever... how much of that goes to the label? then how much of what goes to the label goes to the artist? anyone know?

50/50 in most cases for digital. Much much less for vinyl, but the sale price is also much higher.