I hope this is not too off the topic. But I am in a band and we are trying to make a dent in this modern music business. We don't expect anything - we truly do this for our enjoyment and our friendships that go back to the late '80s
Our first album has been out for about ten days. It's distributed all over the world on all the streaming services. and it will be on vinyl soon. In the old days - good luck getting your independent music distributed.
So there's no money in this by streaming. We get about .003 cents per stream and have about 25-30,000 streams. So it's no money unless you can stream millions. Spotify is the main player - and there's some real nepherias stuff that goes on with them. It might be worse that the "old days" with the payola thing.
So we do it though. We're proud that we created the music and the album.
We are thinking about producing 500 vinyl records. I'd put it online everywhere. Discogs, Ebay, Esty, tictok ( if it stays), instagram, and our own website. I'm pretty sure we could eventually sell enough to break even - which would be about 200 records.
There's a ton of new music these days. Way more than the old days. Way, Way more. But that also waters everything down and makes it even harder to stand out if you are an artist. But a consumer has it all. For the price a single CD per month back in the day, you can listen to and discover tens of thousands of releases.
Anyway. Kind of a ramble. lol
Have a good weekend!
Gina
