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Originally Posted by kane
List some of these artists that created stuff at home and got huge from it.
I won't argue that copyright laws could use some tweaking. I'm sure there are ways that they could be changed for the better, but most people who sell a lot of music do so because they have a ton of money behind them promoting it. It seems to me that it is a pretty rare occasion that someone self-releases something and gets huge from it.
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1. huge is a relative term, you can make 1/25th sales and make as much money as a represented artist.
2. this article pointed out the fact that " one large EU country 97.5 percent of artists earn less than ?1,000 (£856) a month from the copyright system". The
average kickstarter mucian make 2x that amount.
here is the fact
if you want to make it big in the music industry your better off, doing it on your own
taking all the money above 1k a month you make from kickstarter and buy lotto tickets
the odds are way better you will make millions then hoping that the record company will promote you to success.
The fact is no one in the record industry has ever gotten a marketing push without FIRST paying back their advance.
The fact that some artist have enough talent to make back their money on their original single sales doesn't change that fact
the fact that artist who have an establish career can get million dollar advances so big they can't ever sell enough records to recover from (with the 90/10 split) doesn't change that fact.