Members bostonwal Posted April 9, 2009 Members Share Posted April 9, 2009 There is not an internet band that can come close to the distro and promo leverage of a major label, for the simple reason that the internet is a "go to " medium where the consumer has to be online and seek out sites to be exposed to the music. Labels use the "come to" media of TV, radio, magazines and posters in public places to sell and place product awareness in front of the consumer. True. The marketing budget for a new release easily goes over a million and that can be just for radio promo (payola). But, I think some degree of "internet sensation" will be expected by a band before a label gets really interested. I think it is an interesting bet though. If you're good enough to get a label to invest $1 million in you, you might be good enough to sell 100,000 copies on your own in, say, a year's time. You would probably have to sell 1 million to 2 million copies on a major label to make the same money as you would from selling only 100,000 on your own. However, to answer my own question, it looks like major label bands seem to earn about 10x the CD revenue when they tour, so a band that made $2 million of off a recording seems to gross in the neighborhood of $20 million on tour (ticket sales I think, not necessarily merch too). U2 sold 9 million copies of Atomic Bomb and grossed $393 million on the tour - which must include merch. But that 10x number may only be possible with the big time marketing spend by the major label. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jasco Posted April 9, 2009 Members Share Posted April 9, 2009 I have a couple friends who were signed to a major and a large indie who sold approximately 300,000 and 150,000 CDs respectively. The first guy still owes the label money and the second guy hasn't made any money from his label yet. (Both were dropped eventually.) However, both of their bands have the clout to get really good paying gigs now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MusicGuy101 Posted April 11, 2009 Members Share Posted April 11, 2009 If you could sell 100,000 units of a CD indie, holy crap, I don't know what the label could offer you to make you want to sign under them. Figure you're making easily a few dollars per unit being indie, you have the money to hire marketing/PR companies pushing you in every continent and a manager to oversee the project if you want to concentrate only on the music. Keep releasing albums and do whatever you did to sell those 100,000 copies of the first one and you'll live a happy life I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted April 11, 2009 Members Share Posted April 11, 2009 Similar Artists: Jaybird Coleman , Memphis Jug Band , Tommy McClennan ... of the group is where the action really is in terms of impressive history, ... Texas blues fans will be happy to brag that independent studios and ... The Dallas String Band's most well-known tunes are "Dallas Rag," which is a popular number Um........what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members richardmac Posted April 11, 2009 Members Share Posted April 11, 2009 Um........what? Reported as link spammer. Seems like a lot of them these days. Noted for their small number of historical posts, links in their sigs, totally arbitrary comments, and the fact that they are losers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pjrake Posted April 11, 2009 Members Share Posted April 11, 2009 and the fact that they are losers.LOLthat made me laugh -PJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members methusalem Posted April 11, 2009 Members Share Posted April 11, 2009 Check my signature below this may help to sell whatever number you want to sell Speaking of which... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted April 11, 2009 Members Share Posted April 11, 2009 Right on cue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members richardmac Posted April 12, 2009 Members Share Posted April 12, 2009 Wow. And a MySpace link, at that. Geez. Reported. I hope other people are also reporting these losers. Otherwise I'm gonna get banned for reporting too many link spammers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RichyRox Posted April 12, 2009 Members Share Posted April 12, 2009 Thanks for the free music advise. At this point people dont care about hearing my music. I have not sold one CD. A little dissapointing RichyRox.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poker99 Posted April 13, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 13, 2009 Check my signature below this may help to sell whatever number you want to sellhahahahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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