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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_ite5j7y wrote

Reply to comment by Reelplayer in The Modern Music industry sounds like a shit-show by coolguysteve21

Okay, sure. But people who are independent from any record label and sell their albums on Bandcamp probably walk away with more of that money than a big name act would .... Even when people were still buying physical CDs, the bands themselves maybe only got 10 cents from every CD sold.

"The percentage that you receive for each album sold is a negotiating point, but typically it can fall anywhere between 10% and 20%. Most new artists get a royalty percentage at the low end of the range, and 10% is common."

Someone selling their music via a website like Bandcamp is taking more from those sales than a major label artist would.

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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_ite66u4 wrote

Also, the only reason DIR EN GREY (a Japanese Metal Band) ever got any traction in the U.S. is because of a few English-language websites talking about the band and ILLEGAL FILE SHARING VIA P2P CLIENTS....

Without someone uploading DeG's music to Grokster, Morpheus, Kazzaa, LimeWire etc -- nobody outside of Japan would even know about DIR EN GREY.... And much like Rammstein before them (German band) their big entry point came when they were selected to play the Family Values Tour with Korn.

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