DJs and Streaming music via Beatport LINK discussion
Amps I admit I donāt know a huge amount about how they pay, but as they are outright purchases I figured they canāt be that bad, but I could be wrong.
i havenās sold anything on beatport, so this is all speculation, maybe someone more knowledgeable can chime in. my understanding is that you have to be a label to submit to beatport. which means from an artist perspective, the cut of money from every sale goes first to beatport, then to the label, then you get whatever is left over after mastering, promo, and distribution cost. which is likely nothing.
Mad_Cyril i have a good friend who makes trance and heās been top 10 on the beatport charts at times and never made a penny. he uses it for promo to get dj gigs. the whole make music for promotion vs pay, clubs expecting djs to play for exposure, etc. needs to change. someone is making money, but itās not the people doing all the work.
- Edited
Cant be that hard to come up with a workable / intuitive UI, cover hosting, storage and management costs with a very low %age and build a model where the artist gets >60% at a bare minimum
Maybe a JC project?
Mad_Cyril You would need upwards of 80k to cover the development and design fees and thats before hosting and promotion, and assuming you can get your first iteration out the door in under a year.
I would also guess that whet the artist gets after an āonline saleā might be down to their contract, so even though you drop your fee, the label might just hoover up more of the cut and still give the artist fuck all???
Amps no idea, but unless youāre able to everything yourself, itās likely going to be cost prohibitive anyways. letās say you could do it cheap for a few hundred dollars, youād have to shift so many units to just break even, i canāt imagine itās worth the hassle.
maybe if you could set up a collective where you have several good artists, a mastering engineer, maybe a couple of people into graphics/video/etc. and youāre all willing to work for the greater good, it could be viable. maybe.
Last call for questions related to Beatport Link today then Iām gonna put together the answers/live and tell you guys a few days in advance when itāll be
303abuser As a bit of a walking one stop designer type (jack of all, master of non), I reckon I could box loads of it off myself bar the actual music / mastering / audio side of things. Dunno the costs on mastering or such thingsā¦ how many units to be in profit you reckon? Thousand? Five thousand? Ten thousand?