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How much profit would she make on the £10.99 though when you've taken all the production, VAT and distribution costs out? A couple of quid maybe? And once someone has bought it that's it, no more income from that CD. And the bulk of the CD sales will be on initial release and drop off quickly after that.
If they’re selling CD’s at a gig, the £10.99 is surely all profit, because recording and production costs are all ready paid up front. While I’ll almost certainly have an artists new album in my Music Library, if I go to a gig I nearly always buy merchandise and a CD and get the CD signed. If it’s someone who hasn’t toured for ages, and I’ve got old CD’s, I’ll take those along and ask for them to be signed, sometimes I’ll take vinyl along, but that’s not very often these days. Plus artists often attract new audiences who will buy CD’s and new vinyl, I see it happening all the time at gigs; in the case of one particular artist who I see fairly regularly she sells bags, keyrings and a lovely book to go with her last album, with lyrics and the story behind the songs, and her and her husband do a brisk business before and after the show.
If they’re selling CD’s at a gig, the £10.99 is surely all profit
Quite a few, especially the large venues take a cut of the merch sales. It's why some artists and doing popup merch stores in cities they're gigging in.
If they’re selling CD’s at a gig, the £10.99 is surely all profit, because recording and production costs are all ready paid up front.
...don't ever set up your own business! 😀
Spotify is the modern radio. So many bands I have discovered by letting my playlist continue. Bought the records of a few and left them in my sons room with his turntable. It is so much easier to stream.
If everyone who has an issue with the spotify top dog investing naughty products, I genuinely admire your lifestyle choice if you boycott other companys.
And I like the lossless, tried Tidal and Amazon music but returned to Spotify.
as above about the 10.99 profit. From memory I recall being told the “artist” cut was about £1 and “writer” another £1 on a CD sale. Possibly bollocks but if close how much were the tiny bands actually getting from their sub 10000 cd sales? As some are doing now if you don't like being exploited why
allow your music to be on Spotify.
There just so many artists now, who can record on a MacBook at home, the pie is only so big.
I have a cheap Chinese DAC with balanced input connected to my Beyerdynamic headphones. Sounds pretty good to me.