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What does everyone do with there tracks? (pg. 4)
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| Kismet7 |
he has easily done a mill off 'PATT', and what depresses you is another topic, which I wont discuss with ya ;p
Besides the sales from 'PATT' and whatever advance he got for it.
Sharam likely makes 5-10,000 a gig. 8-10 Gigs a month, your talking about 50-100k a Month, which is about 600k-1.2 Million a year. Much of that 1.2 million in est gigging fees is due to big tracks like 'PATT'. Until the next group of tracks carry the burden. And the thing electronic music and its DIY nature, once you've built a following, its hard to lose it, because the following often find the artist and stick with the artist. A natural chemical reaction without a huge marketing machine to force people into the artist like how it is in Pop, Hip Hop, Rock music. Intrinisic value keeps building for EDM artists over time, as long as they stay active and continually release enjoyable music for their fans.
Keep in mind, the small group of 20-30 toxic jaded posters who bash music and artists on TA does not equal the voice of an artists listener base. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Sharam's popular stuff is pop music, though, more or less. He remixed a song that was to begin with, a limp bit of pop that Eddy Murphy paid a real musician -- Rick James, in fact -- to write. What an artistic accomplishment. |
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| Kismet7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Sharam's popular stuff is pop music, though, more or less. He remixed a song that was to begin with, a soulless bit of pop that Eddy Murphy paid a real musician -- Rick James, in fact -- to write. What an artistic accomplishment. |
thats nice and dandy, but you're jumping off the topic, and bringing in subjective taste into a discussion about the earning power of EDM tracks/artists. Going back to the toxic jaded nature that really is not useful for anyone. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| I love being toxic and jaded, especially when it comes to the massive popularity of music. Maybe hexadecimal and I can be friends? |
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| Kismet7 |
| Thas koooo..I love not being toxic and jaded about music. Shame that you are though...i'd find a way out if I were you, its not healthy. |
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| Eric J |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
What sort of EDM release will earn $1,000,000? The highest amounts I have heard about are in the tens of thousands. Maybe if it gets licensed for some really big movies, I guess. |
I would guess releases that earn in this range are mainstream releases. For example, Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor is an album full of dance tracks and has been certified Platinum with 1,695,000 units sold in the US alone as of 2009. At $20 a pop, that's $25 million. $25 million / 13 tracks = $1,923,076.92 per track.
Now admittedly, this is an extreme example. I know what you were getting at. I agree that your average Beatport artist is not going to rake in $1,000,000 in sales. |
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| meriter |
| I would be happy knowing what kind of stuff takes in $500-$1000. |
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| Kismet7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eric J
I would guess releases that earn in this range are mainstream releases. For example, Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor is an album full of dance tracks and has been certified Platinum with 1,695,000 units sold in the US alone as of 2009. At $20 a pop, that's $25 million. $25 million / 13 tracks = $1,923,076.92 per track.
Now admittedly, this is an extreme example. I know what you were getting at. I agree that your average Beatport artist is not going to rake in $1,000,000 in sales. |
Surely no one is going to make $1,000,000 off Beatport alone. Beatport has to figure ways to be the destination for music downloads for far more people for EDM tracks to get there through Beatport alone. Like I said earlier, EDM artists who build snowballs (multi faceted revenue stream) do make nice through EDM.
Snowballs...being the key word. |
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| Richard Butler |
These sums seem other wordly, and I'll say why.
Every month Future Music mag interviews some pretty big names in EDM, and every one of them says there is zilch in releasing stuff now. Are they all lying? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Richard Butler
These sums seem other wordly, and I'll say why.
Every month Future Music mag interviews some pretty big names in EDM, and every one of them says there is zilch in releasing stuff now. Are they all lying? |
It must be a conspiracy. They want any potential competition to stop making music! ;-) |
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| Kismet7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Richard Butler
These sums seem other wordly, and I'll say why.
Every month Future Music mag interviews some pretty big names in EDM, and every one of them says there is zilch in releasing stuff now. Are they all lying? |
Futurmusic as useful as it might be, its another media company...ie a propaganda utility.
Like I said, its not about just releases, think snowballs. |
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| Beatflux |
| quote: | Originally posted by Richard Butler
These sums seem other wordly, and I'll say why.
Every month Future Music mag interviews some pretty big names in EDM, and every one of them says there is zilch in releasing stuff now. Are they all lying? |
I think the tracks Kismet are talking about are EDM tracks that have hit mainstream. I know I've heard Pjanno in a TV commercial before. |
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