[quote]howiegroove (11/2/2009)[hr]So you’re saying that you would be able to book David Guetta… the third rated dj in DJ Magazine’s top DJ’s list for $5,000? How is that diluted? Especially when DJ’s like Tiesto can EASILY make over 20,000 Euros per night. Prove me wrong. PLEASE![/quote]
Ya david guetta NOW could charge more due to his chart releases and flukey top 100 DJ chart.
But a couple of years ago, no way.
[quote]howiegroove (11/2/2009)[hr][quote]roben (11/2/2009)[hr]Howie, your figures mate are quite deluded. We’ve booked massive big name artists for remixes and also club gigs at a lot lower figures than you’re quoting.[/quote]
How big were the names? Specify what they did and a roundabout on what they were paid for remixing. Who were the names you booked to DJ? What was their quote? For the remix, were they washed up when the did the remix or were they still pumping out chart toppers?
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I’m not here to score points or prove people wrong, i’m just going from my own experiences and knowledge dude, chillax
I don’t really want to be mentioning names but if it really helps you then sure i’ll name a small few:
Stonebridge, Sandy Rivera, Freemasons, Michael Grey, etc.
[quote]jon_fisher (11/2/2009)[hr]
who have you booked roben. i don’t think these figures are that far off, look at deadmau5 he sold 30000 copies of not exactly and has been a constantly big seller on beat port. from what i’ve read you need to be shifting over 1000 copies to make beatports top 700 (was in dj tech mag)[/quote]
You’re right, last year Deadmau5 was charging £16k apparently (although this was told to me by an industry friend, who i think was told by another person so could have been rumour. However thinking about how much they were charging at the door and knowing the capacity of the club, they’d never have raised £10k let alone the whole £16k on door entry alone so…)
[quote]howiegroove (11/2/2009)[hr]Here Roben… I came up with a great idea. I would like you to book David Guetta. Book him for a Friday or Saturday night for at least a 60 minute set. There will have to be at least a $20USD entrance fee for the club night. If you can get him for under $5000USD, I will pay for it out of my own pocket. Otherwise, you have to fork out the cash… Deal?[/quote]
Howie you can’t keep using David G for this discussion as he’s the exception, i fully agree he will be expensive, he is NOW the exception due to his major commercial successes.
[quote]jon_fisher (11/3/2009)[hr][quote]costa093 (11/3/2009)[hr][quote]jon_fisher (11/2/2009)[hr]sorry for some reason my post seemed to edit itself, Beatpot will take 25 to 50% and a record label will take anywhere from 10 to 50% depending on the size of the artist. no big name is going to sign to a label that’s gonna take 50% not when they have a tone of labels to pick from.
unknown artist have to be less picky with who the sign with and you’ll probably get royally screwed on your first few deals.
but if you take for instance that most of the top 100 on beatport own their labels if they are selling 10 to 20k copies even after you take away the commission you are still talking big money especially when you take into consideration that the same track will be on beatport, audiojelly, trackitdown itunes and all the others[/quote]
Just out of curiosity as it wasn’t mentioned in the previous posts, can things such as licensing the records for compilations and mix-cds increase the amount of revenue for the artist, or would all moneys gained from this go to the record label alone? (as they effectively hold the rights to any track in question).[/quote]
any format that your track gets used on will increase the revenue, as already mentioned cd’s will only add pence but tv commercials, radio and film could be great for you.
radio one pay quite well for tracks i’ve been told but obviously not gonna do much with just one radio play, if the radio dj likes your track and airs on almost every show this could rack up nicely over a period of time[/quote]
Yep, publishing and licensing is where the money is at. Not the record sales.
