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Becoming a beatport artist (pg. 2)
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| Nightshift |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Most popular? Yes.
Monopoly? No. |
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| oldspice891 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Rafnel
If your trolling this is golden but if not, then here is some advice ive learned over the years through my own personal mistakes.
1. Don't rush into things, take your time.
2. Send some stuff out to some semi-big DJs/Producers. Don't bother with Armin or Tiesto, you won't hear back, the amount of promos they get is insane. Try some artists who have some good tracks out but arn't touring constantly or on top of the world. Try to stay within your sound too. They can provide great feedback and this will help a lot.
3. Start slow with labels, pick which labels you want to send to carefully, and be professional about it.
IE: Don't say... "Hey i'm ___insert name here___ I want to be signed so i can get on beatport." or... "My stuff is amazing, you should sign me."
Try something more like: "Dear Label, my name is ___Insert name___ I've been following your label for a while and think some of my tracks would be up your ally and would love to be a part of the team. Here are my 2 latest tracks: ____insert good 320kbps DIRECT LINK's here___
Provide good contact details and maybe a list of some support you have, or a following if you have one.
Those are the main things that i learned at first. Make sure your totally ready for submitting to a label before you do. I wish i had done that from the start and saved the disapointment.
Just keep at it, have fun at what you do, and good luck bro! |
Not trolling, just trying to learn a few things. I'll keep that in mind, def. the part about sending it to some other smaller producers to get feedback. Nice thanks.
^^Fore sure I'll look into it.
And thanks for other advice to the people in the thread, especially Eric J. I think I got some great information and have now devised a plan for what I'm going to do next. |
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| Stephen Wiley |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stealth
Arguably? I wonder, how could anyone argue otherwise? Beatport (like or it not) has a straight up monopoly on the EDM record industry... |
iTunes is not far behind, and when it comes to not so popular genres, in particular ambient, albums can hit it hard on iTunes. Friend of mines label had an ambient album slamming 3300 sales while it had 100 on Beatport. iTunes is generally equal when it comes to a full record release, however singles and EP's do better on Beatport, so overall Beatport does have the upper hand but I don't think it is going to last. I personally wouldn't do business with Beatport if artists were not so anal about having their music on there. Don't think those reasons need to be aired out here but they've got some shady, SHADY management to say the least.
Juno fan myself. Always have been since the vinyl days. Always will be. They could put a nice dent in the American market if they could get a work around on that VAT. It's what sets it over the top and makes Beatport cheaper which is unfortunate because Juno is really the only pure dance music store Beatport could have a fight with. |
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| Stealth |
| haha I didn't mean that Beatport has a LITERAL monopoly... but according to many industry/record label people I've talked to the consensus seems to be that at least 90% of edm record sales go through Beatport! :( |
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| 19503 |
| still u wont get anything. make your own shop on your own site :) 100% of sales goes to you compared to 14% of 50% (= 7%). lets say u have thousands of sales on beatport. @ 2USD, u will make 2000USD * 7% = 140USD. If u make your own shop u would only need to sell 70 copies to get the same money. But thats not the best part imo. the best part is to be in total control yourself, not having to sign a single paper, and keep your "business" exactly as u want it yourself. By promoting your music the right way you might succeed even without being on Beatport. Dont let the industry steal your hard work :) lol |
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| oldspice891 |
| quote: | Originally posted by 19503
still u wont get anything. make your own shop on your own site :) 100% of sales goes to you compared to 14% of 50% (= 7%). lets say u have thousands of sales on beatport. @ 2USD, u will make 2000USD * 7% = 140USD. If u make your own shop u would only need to sell 70 copies to get the same money. But thats not the best part imo. the best part is to be in total control yourself, not having to sign a single paper, and keep your "business" exactly as u want it yourself. By promoting your music the right way you might succeed even without being on Beatport. Dont let the industry steal your hard work :) lol |
This was actually a consideration I had myself. What sites are good to upload your tracks to, to get 100%? And then you could just use the player where you buy it in as a widget on your myspace/website i suppose. awesome info, do you have any examples of programs/sites that you can use that people can purchase the tracks from? |
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| Rebel Brown |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eric J
This is in an effort to weed out the amount of garbage on Beatport and ensure that they only distribute quality music that is going to sell. |
If only this was the case! |
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| Eric J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Rebel Brown
If only this was the case! |
Actually it is, there was a lot more garbage on there than there is now. |
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| -FSP- |
| quote: | Originally posted by 19503
still u wont get anything. make your own shop on your own site :) 100% of sales goes to you compared to 14% of 50% (= 7%). lets say u have thousands of sales on beatport. @ 2USD, u will make 2000USD * 7% = 140USD. If u make your own shop u would only need to sell 70 copies to get the same money. But thats not the best part imo. the best part is to be in total control yourself, not having to sign a single paper, and keep your "business" exactly as u want it yourself. By promoting your music the right way you might succeed even without being on Beatport. Dont let the industry steal your hard work :) lol |
Yes, you will make less money than if you sell it in your own site. The advantage of a label is that they know people and will do the grunt work of promoting. You might also get a guy who loves to dig new releases in your genre to listen to that song. |
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| G-Con |
| quote: | Originally posted by oldspice891
This was actually a consideration I had myself. What sites are good to upload your tracks to, to get 100%? And then you could just use the player where you buy it in as a widget on your myspace/website i suppose. awesome info, do you have any examples of programs/sites that you can use that people can purchase the tracks from? |
www.bandcamp.com |
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