number of downloads/income from beatport

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:38 pm

Measax wrote: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???

I dont know about other label owners But I work fulltime have a kid and wife and would like time to produce my own stuff so welling on our website wuld take WAY too much time for marketing to make it worth while.

Measax · Post by **Measax** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:43 pm

can't you just get one of those web plugins and do it? maybe have it setup with paypal???

::BLM:: · Post by **::BLM::** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:10 am

s.k. wrote:::BLM::,

how much do you pay remixers? if not a secret...

Anywhere between 300 euros' all the way up too 700 euro's.

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:22 am

::BLM:: wrote:
Crimson Chamber Music wrote:Anyone else of the label owner here want to share their view of things on selling digital releases and profit and maybe promotion?

ahem - back to topic ;-)
There is money to be made from digital releases. My latest one did 1000 downloads and it didn't get into the top 10. The way FOF see things is the digital side of thing normally pays for the remix, but vinyl is there as the main format and as my preferred format to release on. If you can get in contact with Beatport and set up a deal so its exclusive to them they will do there hardest to put your releases in the 'recommended' section as well as having big banner supports on the main page, which will obviously do wonders for your sales.

Promotion for digital stuff I would suggest sticking to the internet. Just put posts up on boards like this one letting people know that your release is out.

Wow I didnt know beatport did features for exclusive tracks. Maybe Ill give that a whirl since beatport does 80-90 percent of our sales anyways.

::BLM:: · Post by **::BLM::** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:26 pm

Well its not 100% that they will do a feature on your label, but you have more chance if your exclusive to them. I know at the start of each week beatport have a sitdown and then decide which releases they will be featuring so if you can get your distro to have a word with them that may help you get on the featured section.

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:53 pm

::BLM:: wrote:Well its not 100% that they will do a feature on your label, but you have more chance if your exclusive to them. I know at the start of each week beatport have a sitdown and then decide which releases they will be featuring so if you can get your distro to have a word with them that may help you get on the featured section.

That might just work sine our distributor does about 40 thousand a quarter in sales with beatport.

Thanks for the tip!

Crimson Chamber Music · Sun Jun 15, 2008 3:07 pm

::BLM:: wrote:
Crimson Chamber Music wrote:Anyone else of the label owner here want to share their view of things on selling digital releases and profit and maybe promotion?

ahem - back to topic ;-)
There is money to be made from digital releases. My latest one did 1000 downloads and it didn't get into the top 10. The way FOF see things is the digital side of thing normally pays for the remix, but vinyl is there as the main format and as my preferred format to release on. If you can get in contact with Beatport and set up a deal so its exclusive to them they will do there hardest to put your releases in the 'recommended' section as well as having big banner supports on the main page, which will obviously do wonders for your sales.

Promotion for digital stuff I would suggest sticking to the internet. Just put posts up on boards like this one letting people know that your release is out.

Hmm thanks for the advice, but I think for the moment getting things on beatport is the problem for me ;-)
I am thinking about putting stuff up on itunes, via tunecore, it is tempting, dunno how djs feel about itunes, I mean obviously beatport is the leading store and all that, as it has frequently been debated on this board, but for me it seems to be not that easy to get on there + they are expensive and the artist does not get that much of it.
Do you guys put your stuff up on itunes? what do you think about tunecore.com?

And lots of thanks for sharing your insights on the matter!
I am slowly growing really fond of this community :-)
greetins from Berlin
Edwin

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:50 pm

Crimson Chamber Music wrote:
::BLM:: wrote:
Crimson Chamber Music wrote:Anyone else of the label owner here want to share their view of things on selling digital releases and profit and maybe promotion?

ahem - back to topic ;-)
There is money to be made from digital releases. My latest one did 1000 downloads and it didn't get into the top 10. The way FOF see things is the digital side of thing normally pays for the remix, but vinyl is there as the main format and as my preferred format to release on. If you can get in contact with Beatport and set up a deal so its exclusive to them they will do there hardest to put your releases in the 'recommended' section as well as having big banner supports on the main page, which will obviously do wonders for your sales.

Promotion for digital stuff I would suggest sticking to the internet. Just put posts up on boards like this one letting people know that your release is out.
Hmm thanks for the advice, but I think for the moment getting things on beatport is the problem for me ;-)
I am thinking about putting stuff up on itunes, via tunecore, it is tempting, dunno how djs feel about itunes, I mean obviously beatport is the leading store and all that, as it has frequently been debated on this board, but for me it seems to be not that easy to get on there + they are expensive and the artist does not get that much of it.
Do you guys put your stuff up on itunes? what do you think about tunecore.com?

And lots of thanks for sharing your insights on the matter!
I am slowly growing really fond of this community :-)
greetins from Berlin
Edwin

Well Itunes sales are centered around more commercial music from what my distributor tells me. If you had like a rock band album or a pop singer then it would do well on itunes. But beatport is 80 percent of dance music sales in general. So if you want recognition or sales its probably best to go where the biggest market is.

It is spendy however. Not out of pocket but beatport takes a healthy cut first of all. Secong the only way to get on there right now is to have a solid vinyl sales record or to go through a distributor that works with beatport.
Since you havent sold tons of vinyl youll have to go through a distributor and they take a minimum of 30 percent of your sales on top of beatports cut.

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