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Artists hardly make any money from album sales, unless it's direct payment to them, trough services like Bandcamp. The labels and management take way too big cu
by KozmoNau7 9y ago
Artists hardly make any money from album sales, unless it's direct payment to them, trough services like Bandcamp. The labels and management take way too big cuts.
Most bands make their money from touring and merch, and it's been this way for a long long time.
- mywittyname 9y agoArtists get screwed over touring too. Live Nation owns most of the arenas they can perform in as well as the places they can sell their tickets through, so most of the money you pay for tickets go to them instead of the artist. And record deals usually include a % of merch sales, which is the reason t-shirts are like $30.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoThat depends a lot on the size of the venue. Most of the smaller and medium sized venues here are outside of Live Nation's grip. And LN seems to be a lot more benign here, compared to their behavior in the US.