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| quote: | Originally posted by Derivative
Not exactly true. Any type of music is only profitable if you can get enough recognition that you call sell your name and your face on a T-Shirt and realistically expect alot of people to buy it. It can be in any style or form but you need to be clever about it and be able to connect it with popular trends or ideas or images and so forth. Madonna is really really good at doing this type of thing. Constant reinvention and image change and she always stays in the public eye.
To the OP:
Music is only profitable if you become big enough that you become a recognisable brand name until then you will make fuck all. This is just a part of the business side of music. If you have limited advertising time, limited air time and very limited distribution you will make fuck all.
Vibrasphere make fuck all and they are one of the best psytrance artists of all time in my opinion. Both are working full time in the civil service. staticblue said he made about 7 bucks off his first release - I am inclined to believe that as all you get as a measly royalty per sale. No mechanical royalty and no performance royalty.
If you want to make money it will eventually be in live performance. Although when you start out nobody will want to take you onboard for money and you have to play for nothing. If you can pull crowds then you are making business for the pub/club/bar owner and you can command a slice of the profit. If you cant pull crowds then you have to get enough notoriety whereby you can. Otherwise you wont be making any money. Even then you could probably ask alot of the people over in the DJ booth - they all make fuck all anyway.
If you want to make money in music you have to treat it like a business. But seriously, its easy to make enough money to get you by doing a full time job. Hell working an admin job will feed you, cloth you and give you enough spare cash to set aside every month to buy a new music toy.
Seriously, produce music because you want to do it not because you want to make money off it. Its like one of the worst professions to get into with regards to getting paid a fair sum. Also you better come to the realisation that if you want to persue music production you will be doing 2 jobs.
When you are not working full time, you will produce or do a night course or something to further that aspect of your career. Don't even think about trying to subsist of music production in the early days it isnt possible and you wont be good enough to even give your work away for free.
Seriously, take Zild's advice - get a job. You will manage your production time better because you have so little of it. Every hour is precious and you spend each hour more productively. You force yourself to take more frequent breaks by like, going to work. You can afford to pay for new toys which is always nice.
And people will respect you for it. That you will work 17 hours a day to do something you love doing. They will respect you for it. |
I like that, well said.
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