number of downloads/income from beatport

[patrick bateman]

Isn't Myspace going to be letting artists sell their own tracks for download at some point?

Pretty much every artist already has tracks on their page, so for a premium, Myspace could allocate more space so you could have your whole back catalogue available for sale/download.

I would love that setup, screw the middlemen like beatport!

This happened like 1 year ago, but I think it was only available for US residents, and you get an extra widget on your profile. I think Orlando Voorn had this on his profile.

[Go For What you Know]

One week ago my friend went #25 on the minimal top 100 with 30 tracks sold in 3 days.
We saw it via baseware.

I am actually rank in the top 80 of tech house with 60 track sold this week

[Go For What you Know]

It s maybe because it s summer and the market is slow but I am not lying here

[::BLM::]

One week ago my friend went #25 on the minimal top 100 with 30 tracks sold in 3 days.
We saw it via baseware.

I am actually rank in the top 80 of tech house with 60 track sold this week

I was number 13 & 14 and i sold 1000 on Beatport. I guess it just depends on how many releases are out that particular week.

[Toad]

Overall sales must be very low at the moment if you can get so high in the chart selling so few units.....

[G3rard]

Beatport is the Tescos of download sites, you know you shouldnt really shop there but its so convenient

The quality control isnt very high on Beatport even though they have stopped letting in labels, the majority of releases are absolute sh!te. I just wish the sites that specialised in certain genres such as Kompakt & Traxsource had a better interface.

[Shepherd_of_Anu]

problem is theres not much left by the time it gets to the artist. at 2 dollars beatport takes .60 so you have 1.40 then our distributor takes about 37 cents so you have 1.12 We pay 50/50 with originals so the artist gets about 55 cents per download . alot of labels only pay 40 percent.

So if the track does average for us we make about 50-150 downloads depending on how many tracks are released the same day. thats only 25-75 dollars for the artist. The remixes are split three ways so you might make another 20.50 bucks on that.

Unless your writing tracks that can really cut through all the competition or your on a big label your not gonna make very much money. Unless you can get five to ten tracks a week finished. And then the quality will probably lack so youd be in the dsame boat.

If your lucky a big artist will chart your song or itll get on the beatport charts and then you might make some money but with so much competition its not likelly.

All the more reason to do it just because you love it.

60/40

beatport is the best out there, and with that comes the fck you of taking 40% of the sales, i think theyre deserving, but damn 40%....should be like 25%

It sounds like Beatport is taking a big chunk but something you have to realize about internet sales is that the customer, artist and the merchant are never alone. Most internet sales involve a Payment Gateway such as Paypal. Payment gateways services often charge a basic transaction fee plus 2%-4%. International sales are more expensive. When your dealing with prices as smalls as $2.00 a $0.30 fee and 3% off the top of the sale quickly becomes a very large obstacle in maintaining a profitable business model.

Add operating, promotions and initial web development costs and 40% suddenly doesn't seem so unfair. The only solution that I could see to address this would be to have a form of agreement with the artists that they only sell their tracks in bundled releases much like the purchase of vinyl but then you might scare off sales.

All the more reason to do it just because you love it.

so I am a digger. I dig beatport, juno, track source, discogs, records shops, net labels etc, i hit charts, listen to set bla bla, and I get some promo stuff from friends putting stuff out and all that...

with all that said Beatport is the best for getting music asap because you can have it set to download automaticly which i prefer... i hate crate check out... sometime I only end up getting one track somethime 10... but either way its a way long process. and then you don't know the dl is going to work or what if a connection error. Beatport does a good job of linking stuff also... and I love there is a tone of sht on there because it means you have to dig...thats what its all about... but I can't understand why artists release in that format except for exposure....all 3 days of it. I think most people make their money djing etc.

However, I believe people that want to make money on sales should consider doing vinyl only... I look for those vinyl only labels and I buy them at 10-20 bucks any day because I know they are more exclusive. Another thing though - why don't labels just sell the tracks from their websites... and get 100% profit... or the artist for that matter.. then it just comes down to you marketing the music... then afer a few months of that - release it on beatport???

Marketing and exposure aside, labels selling their own tracks on their own websites would be the ideal way to do business. The problem is that most labels are not run by web designers that have a background in e-commerce. Selling digital content involves a very technical process between the user, the web interface, the databases and the payment gateways.

Even if you can get the money to change hands you still have to be able to protect your content and then provide it to the customer only after payment. Its a huge pain in the ass and you open yourself up to all sorts of liabilities when you start doing financial transactions. There aren't many people who run labels that would have the skills, time nor the inclination to attempt such a venture.

Getting on beatport is better then getting nowhere.

[yacek]

I see music sales not as a form of real profit but as a promotion tool to get gigs, which I believe is where the money is at Deadmau5 sold 30,000 some tracks between "Not Exactly" and "Faxing Berlin" on Beatport, which doesn't seem like it could translate to a lot of money (even if he made another that amount lets say from other sources), so I think where he can make it is charging high prices at gigs... this is my speculation.

Also does anyone have any other tips on advertising, maybe magazines you advertise in or anything else related to Beatport?

EDIT: let's not forget good music is good music, hard to expect people to buy crap even if advertised right.