youandewan wrote:I just received my statements for Q1/2/3 and sold over 850 copies during this time.
The bestselling track hit no.1 on the Beatport Chill Out chart and a re-release made no.14 in Deep House.
However, it failed to make it into the main top 100.
It also hit many other genre charts on Djdownload/Juno/Trackitdown but ofcourse Beatport is 80% of the market (so I have been told).
With my label deal being the standard 50/50 I was still pretty disappointed to discover that I had only made £170 UK Pound Sterling due to the exchange rate from USdollars and most download shops being based in the US.
It's a shame because I really was expecting more. I'm making double this for just doing remixes and DJ'ing.
It seams unless your pumping out big big commercial tunes, making a living through sales alone is an unrealistic idea.
I know my EP was blogged and did the rapidshare/zippyshare/cnt/fck my life rounds on all those sites and maybe I've missed out on a few hundreds sales at least....but even so, I'm guessing a Beatport no.1 on the main chart is probably somewhere between 2000 to 4000 sales at the most...?
Still living in the Uk that would only make me a grand or so...
It's a hard knock life!
Ewan
You only made £170 for 850 units being sold? That simply doesn’t make sense. Note sure what deal you have, but you should be getting more then that. You should be getting around the 700 euro mark (I say Euros as my distro is Intergroove and that’s what they pay me in)
The main chart is still 4000+, which of course would be lovely. It is possible you just need to have a little bit of luck.
If you sign to a label pushing good units you would receive a healthy amount of money. I know some friends who work for decent underground house labels and they are getting like getting 2k per release. There are some labels still pushing 3000+ units so once you get on them the money will start to come.
