Guest nick Posted September 7, 2002 Share Posted September 7, 2002 a question to all artists who have had released material....... how do you get paid? in this particular scene i need some info on how an artist makes his/her income? do artists get paid through membership with the mcps? if so how does the mcps collect the royalties? has anyone been paid by mutual agreement with the record label? - ie: a fat advance and/or an agreement where the artist and label split all income from sales. how much would a label be likely to buy exclusivity of a track? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xoltan Posted September 7, 2002 Share Posted September 7, 2002 No income at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blink Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 excellent question, i'd like to know the answer myself....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andreas of Amygdala Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 From the psynews contest CD "psychedelic sparks" Inpsyde Media sent me a cashiers check for the amount of the royalties... Doesn't get easier than that .oO Andreas Oo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reece Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 hey andreas, if you dont mind me asking, what % of profit does inpsyde media offer?? being a small label, im just curious as to what other labels offer their artists. (we offer 60% of net profits, btw) thanx :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest llazi Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 Well if u check the previous post u can see that almost every label gives 16% of final profits, wich means at around 1$ max pro CD, or nothing at all. Now I don't understand your 60%, what does that mean, how much gets a artists for one cd (in advance or after) and how much copies do you release as minimum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bodhisattva Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 Sabam checks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest llazi Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 Seems that the topic is no longer interesting ! Sad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reece Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 llazi - ok, our first compilation is still in production, but we offer our artists 60% of net profits, which means that after we re-coup the total production costs (printing, artwork, distribution etc.) the artists get an equal share in 60% of the profits thereafter. then 40% for the label obviously. (60% divide by 8 or 9 artists, equals around 6/7% of profits for each artist) because we are a new label, we cannot afford advances (yet). all the artists we have signed so far have been fine with this tho. we will print 1000 copies initially, then more if the need arises., if i understand your post correctly, most labels give only 16% which is then divided by, say 8 or 9 artists!? so the label gets 84% of the profits!? seems totally unfair to me, the artists make the label, they should reap the most reward. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reece Posted September 12, 2002 Share Posted September 12, 2002 just like to add also that our plan my not be that economically viable, have to wait and see i guess, but we're not in it for the money. hopefully we can make back costs so we can do it again! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Spindrift Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 Normally the record deal is either, about 50% of profit or 16-17% of price from distibutor which is around $6-7 per CD. What that means is a couple of hundered $ per track on a CD for a couple of thousand copies. Most artist in this genre nowadays make a very small portion of their profit from record sales. Live gig's pay much better, so find a lable that gives you good exposure, and don't look too much at the figures. Also the deals made on the lables profit's might be shady, since it's easy to make the books to show a very small profit, counting in all sorts of expenses. The payout should roughly correspond in a normal lable anyway. Spindrift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest llazi Posted September 13, 2002 Share Posted September 13, 2002 thanks for the reply. I think Spindrift answered your question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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