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>> Apple's deal obviously makes sense for the artist otherwise the major labels would not have signed up, full stop. What then are these independent's doing? I
by k-mcgrady 11y ago
>> Apple's deal obviously makes sense for the artist otherwise the major labels would not have signed up, full stop.
What then are these independent's doing?
It's very simple. The biggest portion of a records sales are going to come int he month or two after release, after the big marketing push. If an indie releases a record during those 3 months they are going to lose a ton of potential revenue. For a small record label that can be terminal. They're running on fumes they can't take the hit like the majors.
- Steko 11y agoI think release in the window is a good point but the point of streaming services is to mitigate this by shifting a much larger percent of income to back catalog. I also take issue with characterizing streaming income as a "ton of revenue" (perhaps you meant actual sales sales in which case somewhat irrelevent here?) while everything I've heard over the years is how streaming revenue is a small fraction of artist revenue, especially independents. Here's numbers from a pro-spotify independent artist [1]: $1,359 from spotify, that's apparently a career to date number. http://www.popmatters.com/feature/193667-why-its-time-to-stop-hating-spotify/ http://www.popmatters.com/feature/193667-why-its-time-to-sto...