Music Patrons. That's all of you. Wouldn't you like to know where your money is going when you spend money on art? One of the primary goals of my site is to break down how your spending actually makes its way through the music industry.
The brief outline as I believe it to be the case:
Record spending mostly goes to the record industry.
Itunes store: 30% to Apple, 70% other depends on artist's deals with labels, but generally artist receives less than 10%
Spotify:
youtube : '0.65 cents every time someone plays the video' source 1 below
Concert attendance is the most profitable for artists.
sources:
1: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-psys-gangnam-style-has-earned-8-million-on-youtube-alone-2013-1
2: http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20110911/00284415891/how-much-does-band-make-various-music-platforms.shtml which in turn links to http://uniformmotion.tumblr.com/post/9659997039/release-day-economics
Me things:
I am starting to apply for jobs after five months of mostly sitting on the couch.
Which is only mildly fair to myself. the whole broken finger thing did slow me down a couple months, and added to some self loathing, and ... really just got in the way all around.
