If you get a song (like a grooving tech house song, or a genre thats in high demand) up on beatport can you make enough to pay rent? like 300$ a month or something?
Im sure it varies a ton, but whats the most any of you have made from itunes or beatport? making enough to pay the bills seems like it would start a snowball effect in the quality of your tunes, then you could practice all the more.
No, you will make approximately $0 from selling music on Beatport. Maybe a little bit more, but not much more.
You won’t pay your rent (although £300 a month is really low rent compared to where I live in London. A one bed flat around my way is about £1000, or $1500 per month!)
[quote]Fluxyz (12/04/2012)[hr]If you get a song (like a grooving tech house song, or a genre thats in high demand) up on beatport can you make enough to pay rent? like 300$ a month or something?
Im sure it varies a ton, but whats the most any of you have made from itunes or beatport? making enough to pay the bills seems like it would start a snowball effect in the quality of your tunes, then you could practice all the more.[/quote]
how do you afford this?
Hes got a job mate - lol
Yeah, I have a job (kind of). Cost of living is high in London, but so are the wages.
If you want to make a living out of music then just making music and releasing it on Beatport probably isn’t going to be enough. If I was young now this is what I would do:
1. Keep producing - hopefully get realeases.
2. Learn to DJ - Producing and DJing are two sides to the same coin, plus DJing is where you will make money. Release tracks and your DJing will earn you more money. My advice is get 2 cheap CDJ (Numark NDX200 or 400 are great) and a cheap mixer from ebay and learn to mix properly - 1 hour pratice per day and in 1 month you will start to be able to do it, 3 months and you will be able to play. 1 year and you will be ready to play out.
3. When you can DJ - try putting on one off parties for friends, then work your way up - play your own stuff when it is good enough.
4. Get a job (or weekend job) somewhere connected to music - record shop was the standard, but also music instrument shop or wholesaler - even making tea in a music studio.
[quote]Fluxyz (12/04/2012)[hr]how do you afford this?[/quote]
[quote]Fluxyz (12/04/2012)[hr]If you get a song (like a grooving tech house song, or a genre thats in high demand) up on beatport can you make enough to pay rent? like 300$ a month or something?
Im sure it varies a ton, but whats the most any of you have made from itunes or beatport? making enough to pay the bills seems like it would start a snowball effect in the quality of your tunes, then you could practice all the more.[/quote]
getting your track in the top 10 of a genre chart on beatport will earn you about $3000.
Yes, there may be just a little bit more work required between this:
[quote]Fluxyz (12/04/2012)[hr]If you get a song… up on beatport[/quote]
And this:
[quote]bryan spence (13/04/2012)[hr]
getting your track in the top 10 of a genre chart on beatport…[/quote]
Cool thanks, just had no clue about the $ ballpark those guys were in
and thats real hot advice, about the less expensive CDJs