Not how it works at all…

I’ve been a music producer for almost 10 years. THIS article tells it exactly how it was and how it should be.

Internet pirates are full of shit. Quit trying to find a way to rationalize theft.

This is stupid. Support Independent labels who throw money at great artists, but don’t support some douche ukelele youtube singer who covers the same plain white t’s song every other filipino kid has…just sayin.

Musicians on iTunes don’t have managers and drummers.

As an independent musician, I have made $56 total off of ITunes sales from the last four years and put thousands of dollars into it. I wouldn’t mind a record label.

I thought pie charts were s’pose to make things easy to understand…

A 13% cut of a well promoted album can end up being a lot more than 70% of an album that nobody knows about on Itunes. The record label and distributor get paid well because they are good at what they do.

The industry and the model still necessitate record labels. Who is going to advertise for a band if they’re independently releasing their music through tunecore? Lady Gaga wouldn’t exist, that’s for damn sure. There are hundreds of great bands that we’d never hear without publicists hired by record labels.  Economics: always more complicated than a pie chart.

I get the overall point, but the numbers here don’t make sense to me. If “the artists” in the iTunes/Amazon model is the same as “the band” in the conventional model, wouldn’t a lot of those same splits — other band members, producer, lawyer, etc. — also come into effect?  Not arguing pro-record label here at all, this just seems strangely inaccurate.

Good. Record labels are as useful as physical newspapers.