Re:Record labels dig their own grave, and the shovel is call...
by winternett on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:19AM
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That video is advertising a digital distribution service which is owned by a well known record label exec.
The sales figures are quite exaggerated... 99% of artists never sell anywhere near the volume that Drake does.
I think it's important for artists to call out and quit pushing the mostly false profit models that the industry keeps pushing to put artists on a pedestal and to keep artists worshiping the big music industry machine.
If Russ was making $1m a week, he would not be doing self-produced promotional videos and tiktok posts about how to succeed in music. Even $1m a week for a well known music artist is not realistic in a good economy when Spotify only pays a fraction of a penny per play.
The sales figures are quite exaggerated... 99% of artists never sell anywhere near the volume that Drake does.
I think it's important for artists to call out and quit pushing the mostly false profit models that the industry keeps pushing to put artists on a pedestal and to keep artists worshiping the big music industry machine.
If Russ was making $1m a week, he would not be doing self-produced promotional videos and tiktok posts about how to succeed in music. Even $1m a week for a well known music artist is not realistic in a good economy when Spotify only pays a fraction of a penny per play.