It depends, a demo should be around $10k for a good producerwith solid professional credentials. A 7 song EP record will costanywhere from $35k to $50k for a professional producer and upwards.But you should really be getting what you pay for. With thisindustry everyone knows everyone, and it is very important to makethe right contacts from the start. Paying the extra money to havean already established producer is money well spent. But, avoidgoing to through producers that were popular in the 90's or 80's asthose producers have most likely already reached there 'peak,' gofor an up and coming producer with the right connections. Remember,at the end up the day what matters is the music, you could spendthousands of dollars touring, recording, promoting and trying tomake contacts but if you don't have the right sound it won'tmatter. It is vital to have the right producer/songwritingpartners.
Hope this helps and good luck on your musical quest!Cheers.
Music Producer Benefits
Published on January 6th, 2009 by FuNkwoRm 6 How Much Would A Platinum Single With A Major Label Put In Your Pockets?Check it out With the way most deals are structured, you may earn more working for a fast food restaurant than you would by having a platinum single. Here’s whyLet’s suppose you got a record deal, a decent signing advance, and sold a million singles of your song “Bodacious Booty Bounce”. Your situation may breakdown something like thisMaybe your signing advance is around $150,000.
Sounds good right? Don’t get too happy yet because you have to pay all of that money back to the label before you make a penny off of your single sales.“Booty Bounce” sells on iTunes for $.99. ITunes gets 30 cents of every single sale because they’re gangsta like that. Seriously though, see back when the labels were suing people and panicking at the thought that people were stealing and trading their music on the internet, Apple (a fucking computer company), figured out a way to make people enjoy the process of purchasing music online.
They created the market and therefore, set the rules. If it had been left up to the labels, you better believe you would be paying 2.99 for a digital download. ITunes set the price at $.99 which upsets the labels to this day. Apple didn’t care. They were in the business of selling iPods, which they sold a shitload of.
It was a stroke of genius! But let me get back to the subject at hand.Okay, the average artist on a label gets about 15% of all sales. So that means that you’ll get 15 cents of every iTunes single purchase.Let’s say you sell a million singles.
With you getting 15 cents per sale, that puts you at a cool $150,000. That’s just enough to pay back the advance the label loaned you.
So you’re at zero. In fact, you’re in debt because the label will spend hundreds of thousands paying for your promotion and radio play. All of this you have to pay back, and I haven’t touched on what you’d pay to your management and attorney. This is why artists go broke.
How Much Do Producers Make
They never stop owing the label. Even if you manage to pay them back the label owns the copyrights to your musicforever! Naw, this aint the Sopranos, it’s the music biz.So when you see your favorite artist showing off his duffle bag full of money on Youtube, this is usually money gained from touring, endorsement deals or other things the artist has done to capitalize on his fameor he’s just plain frontin’ his ass off.These days you’re better off staying independent.If you enjoyed this post, subscribe!Tags:,.