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warped_candykid
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United States
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 Posted - 2009/10/10 : 23:07:33
For example, lets use Serious Sounds
Does any of the money go towards the artist/label? Or does it all go towards the site to keep it in function?
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Project-Industrial
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Posted - 2009/10/10 : 23:26:05
some sites keep a part of the money for themselfs to cover the expenses for like paying the server nd domain name fee nd stuff.. paying the lisences to distribute music for artists/labels. its a small fee payed per track.. the rest goes towards the artist/label.. how thats sorted out on the label depends on the policies of that specific label in question :) its obvs that artists get payed from it somehow.. although with the mp3 prices its not that much... better then nuffin still :) music aint a goldmine these days!
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2009/10/10 : 23:27:01
If the site gave no profits to the artist/label then that would be equal to filesharing.
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Starstruck
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Australia
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Posted - 2009/10/11 : 00:01:00
There are always dividends/percentages that go toward the label which is then (in most cases), cut for royalties for the artist.
IMOdownload only take 30% , most others take 50%.
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redwingz
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 2009/10/11 : 00:04:47
From trackitdown, the label/artist ends up receiving 33% of the selling price per mp3
From Juno label/artist gets about 40% of selling price per mp3
From IMO the label/artist gets about 66% of the selling price per mp3
The rest of the cut goes to MCPS, payment handling fees and the host website
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latininxtc
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United States
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Posted - 2009/10/11 : 00:19:08
i hear beatport is one of the worst. they have a monthly charge for having your songs on there, and on top of that they keep a percentage of sales. so if you don't sell a song, then you are basically out $$$
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CiALiN
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Ireland
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Posted - 2009/10/11 : 13:20:29
jesus trackitdown is a bit of a ripoff....like thats ****in robbery
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Samination
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Posted - 2009/10/11 : 14:11:31
compared to itunes and spotify, they get more money than most throu TID, so no complaining!
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