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> I'm curious what the net amount of money going to musicians are, as opposed to the amount of money going to record labels. Before It didn't really matter. Yes artists were screwed on sales, but they were getting a lot of money before hand with juicy contracts. On a 10$ CD sale they used to win around 1$. The rest was made with touring ... So unlike today artists were getting a lot of money upfront. Anyway there were still getting 1/10 on each sale, compared to the pennies they get with Spotify... A way to bypass labels hey? but running a label is a full time job. It's like saying, why don't artists do their own promo? why don't they do all their own design, videoclip, PR ,manage sells on digital plateforms, send DMCA takedown requests to thousands of websites, and design and sell tshirts/merchandize on their own ?... well you can't really make music, shows, be on the road,and manage all these things at once. Sure,if you're JayZ,you can own your own label, your own plateform, and a whole team dedicated to all these stuff, but all artists aren't JayZ Labels used to be "banks" for artists ,no more, no less. Try to bypass banking and see what happens. Yet I'm optimistic.Things always evolve in an unexpected way. But to say "artists are better off without labels" is misunderstanding the role of labels. |