Urban Hat€monger ?

The promoter handles all that not the record company.

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djchameleon

Who pays the promoter?

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

TheBig3

Is this a serious question?

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djchameleon

Yes it is. As was my previous question, I don't know the ins and outs of concerts and I'm just looking for answers since you guys know about it. If you dont want to answer that's fine.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

The band do from a percentage of the gate.

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TheBig3

I just didn't know if you were being a snarky jackass.

Labels are there to market the artist really. But they tend not to benefit from the tour, which is where artists make a lot of their money. Its the reason no one bought the "Napters going to kill your favorite artist" shtick. Mainly because managers set things up, local radio shows promote as well as the venue.

Bands get a cut of the sales or a % of the ticket in take, plus the merch.

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djchameleon

So the only things the label helps with is distribution and marketing, which would include music videos

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TheBig3

It could, but those are often low budget and not useful anymore. Each band tends to have their own, but largely labels don't pitch in.

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Necromancer

The above link contains some interesting predictions concerning the future of the music industry.

In 2002 David Bowie made some insightful remarks on the future of music distribution and copyright. 



Quote: ''Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity,'' he added. ''So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

LOLPOCALYPSE

I just wrote a research paper on this...I don't have time right now but I will definitely be discussing this at some point.

In short though, major labels are becoming obsolete (sort of like publishers).
Look at:
-Recent rise in independent labels
-Free music business model being utilized by underground and popular artists alike
-Artists get less gross profit but more net profit without major labels
-Artists make virtually nothing from album sales
-Only about $23 out of every $1000 made in the music industry goes to artists
-CDs have been demoted to a promotional tool