Music Royalties


 

The Economics of the music industry:

The artist wioll typically get 1-15%, while overheads ate up the rest.

 

There is a great blog about this here:http://www.wetware.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

Artist:

$0.99 download single song price to the consumer

less $0.34 to Apple

left $0.65 x 130% ( wholesale markup) x 12% (net artist net rate) = $0.10

 

Producer:

$0.99 download single song price to the consumer

less $0.34 to Apple

left $0.65 x 130% (wholesale markup) x 3% (producer rate) = $0.025