Kumquat so at 14 quid a pop thats 8,400 gross. Gotta pay out the artists . What sort of share would they get ? 50/50 ? Pay the tax man….art work…suppose Sasha would do the mix/mastering in house? Need @Smallman1 to give us a run down of “How to make money in the Music Industry”

      benson was gonna say…. interests me how much these releases actually pull in nowadays. Especially the artists share vs mixer artist. Take Quattro. I’d say Diggers gets a better margin on the vinyl (?) . Suppose there are income streams from streaming that are elongated…but a pittance. Looking at the numbers think Diggers and Sasha would be lucky to earn 10K net on any “mix” album nowadays .

      Wonder how that compares to some of the GU Mixes back in the day…. or Ren 1…….

          IndustryStandard How much effort do they put in for that? Doesn’t sound like an easy way to get rich. Hw much would they get paid for a club gig where they can change a few tunes from last time rather than have a whole new 2 hours of music.

              benson considering the amount of legwork, sourcing publishing rights etc, surprised they bother TBH. Income stream in lockdown, and an artist folly, but on paper a no brainer gigging vs doing complications. Especially considering podcasts nowadays.

                benson Doesn’t sound like an easy way to get rich.

                Do you honestly think he does these projects to get rich?

                    I’d say he also took a minor hit on the refracted gigs.

                    LT42 but he is rich. So I’m just wondering how it all fits into the portfolio of a superstar DJ. If only there was some business expert on this board who could elighten me,

                        It’s not done to make serious money… No one in their right mind does a mix CD to make serious money nowadays unless your Ministry of Sound and churning them out by the dozen. It’s mainly a platform to increase brand awareness and promoting new talent. He’s not done this off his own back, it’s been done with !K7 Records who have been around for 30+ years and do the DJ Kick’s compilations so have all the contacts/knowledge on publishing, licensing and manufacturing etc. They know how to make decent money to have survived that long…

                        600 units on a niche platform like BC is a strong day one performance. When you add in the BP/iTunes/Amazon sales which will be 5 or 6 times that on each store… All the Ltd Edition (500) hard case vinyl has sold out. The other vinyl editions are probably going to sell out. It all adds up. As I said in my iniitial post it’s sold more units on BC on day one than Quattro II has since it’s release 2.5 months ago.

                        No one’s going to be buying Jay-Z’s Yeezy trabbs on the back of having a track on it, They probably got a flat fee per track. I dare say that most of them would have bitten his hand off to have a track on one of his compilations.

                        The old GU Mixes (the Sasha and Digweed ones anyway) sold around the 50k mark iirc. If this does half of that in the digital age it’s done well.

                          benson So I’m just wondering how it all fits into the portfolio of a superstar DJ.

                          In his case, at least in the last 10 years, it seems to be about artistic expression solely compared to some others you can tell are just in it for the sheets.

                            Kumquat cheers for the explanation . Interesting fact about sales now lucky to be half of those GU releases .

                              Kumquat The old GU Mixes (the Sasha and Digweed ones anyway) sold around the 50k mark iirc.

                              The first Renaissance Mix Collection sold 60k in the UK. Not sure it would have sold that many globally at the time, but bound to have been decent global sales over the c. 25 years since…

                                10K for an album? I’m shocked it’s so little tbh. No wonder they’re all desperate to start gigging again.

                                So how much do they make from gigs then? Maybe a lot less than I imagine. Maybe a lot more. 5k a pop? How is a gig money split. Say bedrock at MoS. average door £20pp with say 1000 going through. plus bar sales. Minus overheads. But that is hardly every week for every DJ is it

                                Sasha & John Digweed are millionaires, surely? All that money being thrown about in the late 90’s early 00’s.