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Originally Posted by kane
According to your chart she will need to spend about 50% of her time doing live shows. That means traveling and being away from home for long periods of time. How much money would you personally need to make in order to justify being on the road away from your friends and family for 6 months out of the year? Hell, depending on the size of the crowd she might have to be on the road 10 months out of the year to make decent money. It is a life that gets old fast. Most bands I saw break up did so because the grind of going out to play live and promote themselves broke them down.
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how the fuck did you get from a chart that documenting INCOME
maybe you should learn how to read data before your talking out of your ass.
That the percentage of income they make not the time they spend.
zoe keating has repeatedly talked about how family friendly her touring schedule is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo%C3%AB_Keating
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As I said before she seems to be in a position to make some money, but unless she gets lucky and is one of the few who strikes it big she will have to repeat this model over and over again and again year in and year out. How many good albums does she have in her? how long can she keep on the road 6 months out of the year before she finally says fuck it and gets a different job? How long does she grind it out without big success before she throws in the towel and moves on?
I'm not making this an argument of record label VS internet artist. I am just pointing out that the odds are very much against her and it seems that you refuse to admit that.
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the odds are against every single musician out there
the signed musician earns less then 7k per year
most have to get second jobs in the food industry to survive.
Your problem is that you discredit every success on this side of the equation as not being good enough.
a signed artist would have to sell $1,760,000 of music to match the success level of this girl. and all the artist who failed to do that will be forced to work for no money on their next 5 albums until they pay it back.