My home-made music catalogue has outsold a lot of my label peers because I have profited form direct sales, which is tragic considering my audience is way smaller and my streams are less
Bro I gotta be honest I don’t even follow you for production tips or tutorials. I respect you and all your hard work but THIS is IT for me!! there is no other TH-cam channel that even dares to do this, thank you so much busy, keep it up never gatekeep knowledge ever!!
vanguard holdings a major investment company has stakes in private correctional facilities n they also fund major music distribution companies so technically that is true
The music & entertainment conglomerates have been bought into big time by mafia/organized crime interests, which adds some extra ironic fukkery to the whole affair
@busyworksbeats - I grew up in the biz, an I have to say, this is one of the FINEST explanations that I've seen! Bravo! Yes, there's a ton of middle-men between what we create and in the end, what we get paid... As a session player, I'm used to getting my pay for the work I do, but I don't have any sync/licenses on what I've played bass for, even stems... I'm trying to get into the Sync/License as a composer now... Last year I made under ten bucks from streams.. there's gotta be a better way! I love music, I'm a musician, seasoned over 40+ years... More than willing to collab with anyone as long as there's a Split Sheet, I'll even work on spec!
you have to have fans that care enough to be inconvenienced for a download. that's hard to do, the average music consumer isn't built like that. they don't care how much the artists suffer, as long as its super convenient for them to stream.
I remember some independent rappers like Mach Hommy and God Fahim were always experimenting with the income generating models of direct sales to fans of both hard and digital copies of every new project. Like sometimes they'd only release a new project as a super limited collector's vinyl lp for over $1,000 a disk
10:24 we choose with our distro if we want to publish our music to any social media platforms and we get compensated if we choose so. You can publish to a single DSP if you want, and the social media companies can’t use it then.
Again Amazing Information ! Finally Some Real Stuff! its eye opening Thanks BWBeats Ur the best! had to sub! looking forward to picking your brain to learn as much as i can
As a past programmer I’ve been saying that there should and could be a better system in place for the creator, but the system won’t allow it will put too many out of business or a job!
Excellent video. This video made me think about an article that I read in Variety back in the 90's where B of A extends $800M credit line to Universal. Now I see why the licensing agreements are not always up for discussion. The spins are over .12 cents for records under 5 minutes, and up to $2.35 for very minute of a song after 5 minutes, and they wnat to pay the artist and company .003 of .1 cent. Wow! I would like to have a conversation with you.
One of my friends used to rap, and he straight up, told me all of these rappers that you see do not make their money from music they make it selling drugs, and that’s why they keep coming up dead.
One question; What experience in the music industry do you have to expose it? Critiquing a system and exposing a system are two different things. The latter requires experience. So what experience do you have?
To totally skip the system, we'd be using web3 systems. The concept of traditional royalties is controlled by the existing Music Industry systems. I teach music producers to sell directly to their customers to build that relationship. And use royalties and streaming as a way to reach new people, not as a main business model. I also teach that if producers go into the music industry, they should aim for partnerships.
I think most celebrity musicians are much poorer than we realize. If they are actually wealthy they did something funny to become that rich it wasn’t purely because of their music.
We need to be reinvent (high integrity) the music industry as independent artists or producers. Keep in mind your music is not the product. It is your brand. Traffic/attention should be used to sell other products that fit your fan base. That's how to håck the music industry
I had an online hit radio in the UK. I did pay the PROs for playing mainstream music. But when I played my own music, I haven't received royalties. Imagine if my music was played on several radio stations and the royalties are not paid to the song writers.
What also bothers me is this concept of record sales & the equation they use to determine how many streams equal a sale is so Backwards. We live in a Digital age & most artist audience are not buying physical copies. If they would improve the equation you would be shocked at what artist sales actually are.
If the music industry is as exploitative as you describe, with low streaming revenues and difficult access to profitable avenues like sync licenses, how is it that we still see a continuous influx of new artists and musicians who are able to make a living and sometimes even achieve significant wealth and fame? Isn't this a paradox that challenges the idea that the music industry is largely unprofitable for artists?
They are most likely specifically selected to be put infront of you. Either that or said artist is making music about death and killing their own people. Those are the two ways, industry plants and death rappers/artists. Ask yourself, like man that person is really blowing up? what type of music are they making? is it negative? because music with a positive message and positive energy is not blowing up unless its being used a tool by the same people who push the negative music.
@busyworksbeats - in the end of your video, you us if we can name anyone from the music biz who took a chance. Back in the early 90s, I was lucky enough to have this happen to me, as a bass player, deep in the woodshed, paying my dues. I was taught lessons, from one of the top head hunters from the Record Plant back in the day. He taught me the trade secrets how to find the gems in a band, and how to approach them, if you were going to build a hand-picked project, and how to have the conversation with said musician(s). There were other lessons along the lines of how the biz operated from the perspective of a sideman, as that's what I was working towards. For over 40+ years, those lessons paid off for me. Now, over the last three years, I've been slowly and steadily building up my music portfolio as a composer. I've made some inroads, however, I am always looking to expand.
Awesome! My question was to name a famous employee from the music industry conglomerate (Sony, Warner, Universal) An employee specifically, not necessarily musician.
20:20 I hate how ppl make this comparison. CDs pay you once while DSPs pay you every single time they listen. People don’t really listen to a song just once. And the lot more people are gonna listen to your music on DSPs then they would’ve on CDs because of friction. It doesn’t cost them anything to listen to your music on a DSP whereas it cost them money to even try out listening to your music on CDs. Plus the algorithm leads to a lot of organic traffic and I’m sure any consumer on any of these DSP’s would tell you that they’ve discovered a lot of music through their DSPs algorithm.
If a cd has a value of $10 and a stream on Spotify has a value of $0.003, one would need to stream the song 333 times to earn $1 through streaming. Even assuming the consumer purchased the song as a single for $1.99, the consumer would need to stream the song 663 times to equal the same value as simply selling the music directly. You would need an additional 662 people to stream your song to compare a “one-time” CD sale to a stream. In other words, you need LESS people to buy than in streaming. In regards to the “discovery” element of music via streaming platforms, most artists pay to become a part of the playlist syndicates in order to be found. Organic Spotify searching is not popular nor the norm. Most artists send traffic directly to their Spotify links. Not much of that process is organic discovery.
Your a real one man. I made my first beat from your video “how to make a beat part 1 Chrords” not going to lie I still suck but if I keep swinging and banging all just for fun & love for music
I love this series bro! I could shed a tear right now. Make part 3 please 🙏 if the contract says 50% royalties... Do we get a cut of the "blanket deal?"
This is so informative. Thank you. I do have a question. If artist hasnt put their music on DSP but used soundcloud is their also some rights they have giving up to use that platform is they are not getting paid from it?
Hello, I am a new subscriber. I wanted to know if you had a playlist for your DARK SIDE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS videos. You have great insider information, thank you for all of your hard work.
Hi. What effect do you apply to the vocals for the remix? It's like my vocals are always dim. Even if I write the notes correctly, it's like they are not compatible with the vocal.
11:30 bro this is another ridiculous point. You literally said it yourself. You paid more for CDs than streams. Since consumers now pay less to listen to our music, less revenue is generated overall, so we make less. It’s just a formula, it wasn’t a negotiation.
You clearly missed my point. I said why did these corporations dictate the value for a stream? If I buy an album that’s musical perfection and play it once a year, it’s not worth $0.003 to me, it’s worth much more but due to ignorant artists, they’d prefer stream count numbers over real revenue.
If you're a songwriter + singer ,.. you MUST go do live perform on the road, you can't just sit on your couch playing pokemon, period.. so these societies are the ones that will make you profit, through commercials,etc. Definitely not coming from this streaming industry, period.. once you're already seriously well known in public, by then these streaming industry will treat you as their VIP customer.
the live industry has been decimated. The venues now take a huge cut of your merch and now the majority of them are owned by Live Nation, jacking up ticket prices.
You mentioned that streaming platforms generate low revenue for artists. However, isn't it true that these platforms have provided a global reach for artists, especially independent ones, which was not possible before? How do you reconcile this benefit with the low revenue argument? You suggested that selling physical CDs could generate more income than streaming. However, in the digital age where physical sales are declining and digital consumption is increasing, how practical is it for artists, especially emerging ones, to invest in physical sales? You encouraged musicians to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset. While this is beneficial, isn't it also true that not all artists have the skills or desire to handle the business side of things? Shouldn't there be a balance where artists can focus on their creativity while also having professionals handle the business aspects?
SHOUT TO ALL MY PRODUCER HOMIES IN HERE WE GOTTA PULL TOGETHER
Lead by example,bro.Dont talk about it be about it.
Great series, as independent artist. Direct to consumer is the best bet to profit once you find your audience
How to you get it to them
Bet! This is my plan too
My home-made music catalogue has outsold a lot of my label peers because I have profited form direct sales, which is tragic considering my audience is way smaller and my streams are less
Bro I gotta be honest I don’t even follow you for production tips or tutorials. I respect you and all your hard work but THIS is IT for me!! there is no other TH-cam channel that even dares to do this, thank you so much busy, keep it up never gatekeep knowledge ever!!
A lot of music promotes behaviour that will get you in jail. The people who run the music industyr, also "own" the jails.
Stop it😂
@@gastarbeiter8384krayzie bone talks about it in an interview, very enlightening how deep things really go in a multitude of industries
vanguard holdings a major investment company has stakes in private correctional facilities n they also fund major music distribution companies so technically that is true
@@gastarbeiter8384they do too. Lazy bone said they wanted gangster rap so they could fill up the private prisons
The music & entertainment conglomerates have been bought into big time by mafia/organized crime interests, which adds some extra ironic fukkery to the whole affair
You’re a beast bro this content is exactly what the industry is missing I’m sharing this to dozens of established artists I know
@busyworksbeats - I grew up in the biz, an I have to say, this is one of the FINEST explanations that I've seen! Bravo! Yes, there's a ton of middle-men between what we create and in the end, what we get paid... As a session player, I'm used to getting my pay for the work I do, but I don't have any sync/licenses on what I've played bass for, even stems... I'm trying to get into the Sync/License as a composer now... Last year I made under ten bucks from streams.. there's gotta be a better way! I love music, I'm a musician, seasoned over 40+ years... More than willing to collab with anyone as long as there's a Split Sheet, I'll even work on spec!
Been waiting patiently! Thanks again bro!
The music industry is the devils playground but God’s working…
Gods working?
Free university grade education. You’re a legend. Just when I thought I was getting the full picture you poke holes all over it. Appreciate you
Man, your tracks are off the charts! Never heard anything so dope! 🎧🚀
YES! part 4! Love all these gems fam!
I been saying CD era was the best artist would make more money, we gotta sell the music directly to fans, maybe through zip files etc
you have to have fans that care enough to be inconvenienced for a download. that's hard to do, the average music consumer isn't built like that. they don't care how much the artists suffer, as long as its super convenient for them to stream.
I remember some independent rappers like Mach Hommy and God Fahim were always experimenting with the income generating models of direct sales to fans of both hard and digital copies of every new project. Like sometimes they'd only release a new project as a super limited collector's vinyl lp for over $1,000 a disk
can't wait to hear part 3-4
The problem with the music business is the artist and producer are the talent but everyone else has their hands in the producer and artists pocket
Definitely make another part to this, can’t wait to hear more
10:24 we choose with our distro if we want to publish our music to any social media platforms and we get compensated if we choose so. You can publish to a single DSP if you want, and the social media companies can’t use it then.
I’m mainly referring to artists who are signed to either Universal, Warner and Sony.
Keep it coming
Again Amazing Information ! Finally Some Real Stuff! its eye opening Thanks BWBeats Ur the best! had to sub! looking forward to picking your brain to learn as much as i can
I'm definitely ready for part 3
As a past programmer I’ve been saying that there should and could be a better system in place for the creator, but the system won’t allow it will put too many out of business or a job!
Faxx 📠
patiently waiting for the next part
Appreciate these breakdowns !
Excellent video. This video made me think about an article that I read in Variety back in the 90's where B of A extends $800M credit line to Universal. Now I see why the licensing agreements are not always up for discussion. The spins are over .12 cents for records under 5 minutes, and up to $2.35 for very minute of a song after 5 minutes, and they wnat to pay the artist and company .003 of .1 cent. Wow! I would like to have a conversation with you.
My song has 325,160 impressions for a total earned of $0.28
Ok busy this is great content
partly why metallica was so against where the industry was heading back in the napster days
Lars was right.
One of my friends used to rap, and he straight up, told me all of these rappers that you see do not make their money from music they make it selling drugs, and that’s why they keep coming up dead.
I am from the old school. Love hearing someone from another generation breaking it all down.
You’ve enlightened me with this series. Thank you so much…
I listen to underground music and buy their albums on Bandcamp.
One question; What experience in the music industry do you have to expose it?
Critiquing a system and exposing a system are two different things. The latter requires experience. So what experience do you have?
how can you bypass BMI/Ascap and get that money? Or bypass Distributors (distrokid, CDbaby) and that those type of royalties?
To totally skip the system, we'd be using web3 systems. The concept of traditional royalties is controlled by the existing Music Industry systems.
I teach music producers to sell directly to their customers to build that relationship. And use royalties and streaming as a way to reach new people, not as a main business model.
I also teach that if producers go into the music industry, they should aim for partnerships.
Facts.. creating our own listening mechanism.. I wonder how they are maintaining those type of platforms..
This is music to my ears. My man on that frequency 🧠💫
I made my first robot in 5th or 6th grade with a tape recorder. Created a radio station talk show with tapes. Walk man and boomboxes.
I think most celebrity musicians are much poorer than we realize. If they are actually wealthy they did something funny to become that rich it wasn’t purely because of their music.
great video really... please keep this going. Really has got me thinking
amazing analysis
We appreciate the breakdown and always giving us the info, it's confirmation and a lot too think about. 🙏🎲🎲
Listening to this at work, keep making more of these
Thank you for calling out how the money made from streaming is minuscule. 12:08
We need to be reinvent (high integrity) the music industry as independent artists or producers.
Keep in mind your music is not the product. It is your brand. Traffic/attention should be used to sell other products that fit your fan base. That's how to håck the music industry
I had an online hit radio in the UK. I did pay the PROs for playing mainstream music. But when I played my own music, I haven't received royalties. Imagine if my music was played on several radio stations and the royalties are not paid to the song writers.
This is amazing work 👏
Prayers for you bro. They will come for you for exposing them.
I love this!
Appreciate the work you do! I hate the streaming payout it’s robbery on every level…
22:11 I mean you can have a catalog of 100 songs getting 10.000 streams each month and there you go a million streams 4k a month
Even though the money appears to be in your PayPal etc it is still done be ACH and the bank floats you the funds. Cryptocurrencies change all of this
Part 3 is gonna be the SOLUTIONS right.
👀✅
What also bothers me is this concept of record sales & the equation they use to determine how many streams equal a sale is so Backwards. We live in a Digital age & most artist audience are not buying physical copies. If they would improve the equation you would be shocked at what artist sales actually are.
If the music industry is as exploitative as you describe, with low streaming revenues and difficult access to profitable avenues like sync licenses, how is it that we still see a continuous influx of new artists and musicians who are able to make a living and sometimes even achieve significant wealth and fame? Isn't this a paradox that challenges the idea that the music industry is largely unprofitable for artists?
They are most likely specifically selected to be put infront of you. Either that or said artist is making music about death and killing their own people. Those are the two ways, industry plants and death rappers/artists. Ask yourself, like man that person is really blowing up? what type of music are they making? is it negative? because music with a positive message and positive energy is not blowing up unless its being used a tool by the same people who push the negative music.
You mentioned the caste system around 9:20.. you went deep on this one.
@busyworksbeats - in the end of your video, you us if we can name anyone from the music biz who took a chance. Back in the early 90s, I was lucky enough to have this happen to me, as a bass player, deep in the woodshed, paying my dues. I was taught lessons, from one of the top head hunters from the Record Plant back in the day. He taught me the trade secrets how to find the gems in a band, and how to approach them, if you were going to build a hand-picked project, and how to have the conversation with said musician(s). There were other lessons along the lines of how the biz operated from the perspective of a sideman, as that's what I was working towards. For over 40+ years, those lessons paid off for me. Now, over the last three years, I've been slowly and steadily building up my music portfolio as a composer. I've made some inroads, however, I am always looking to expand.
Awesome! My question was to name a famous employee from the music industry conglomerate (Sony, Warner, Universal)
An employee specifically, not necessarily musician.
20:20 I hate how ppl make this comparison. CDs pay you once while DSPs pay you every single time they listen. People don’t really listen to a song just once. And the lot more people are gonna listen to your music on DSPs then they would’ve on CDs because of friction. It doesn’t cost them anything to listen to your music on a DSP whereas it cost them money to even try out listening to your music on CDs. Plus the algorithm leads to a lot of organic traffic and I’m sure any consumer on any of these DSP’s would tell you that they’ve discovered a lot of music through their DSPs algorithm.
If a cd has a value of $10 and a stream on Spotify has a value of $0.003, one would need to stream the song 333 times to earn $1 through streaming.
Even assuming the consumer purchased the song as a single for $1.99, the consumer would need to stream the song 663 times to equal the same value as simply selling the music directly.
You would need an additional 662 people to stream your song to compare a “one-time” CD sale to a stream. In other words, you need LESS people to buy than in streaming.
In regards to the “discovery” element of music via streaming platforms, most artists pay to become a part of the playlist syndicates in order to be found.
Organic Spotify searching is not popular nor the norm. Most artists send traffic directly to their Spotify links. Not much of that process is organic discovery.
🔥🔥 thanks for this brother
Great Video you definitely need an part 3,4, and 5 ! Salute
What kind of streams of income a singer can have outside the music? I don’t wanna teach singing
Your a real one man. I made my first beat from your video “how to make a beat part 1 Chrords” not going to lie I still suck but if I keep swinging and banging all just for fun & love for music
I love this series bro! I could shed a tear right now. Make part 3 please 🙏 if the contract says 50% royalties... Do we get a cut of the "blanket deal?"
This is so informative. Thank you. I do have a question. If artist hasnt put their music on DSP but used soundcloud is their also some rights they have giving up to use that platform is they are not getting paid from it?
How many parts are there of this series?
Hello, I am a new subscriber. I wanted to know if you had a playlist for your DARK SIDE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS videos. You have great insider information, thank you for all of your hard work.
I got royalty exchange it gives 2 numbers . 1 in the $hun mil and 1 at about $2300. I don't understand it. Don't know if I can even touch it.
"My brains going on tangents 'cause I'm an Ares" 😂
Preaching 👏
Glooks brother!
I don't know how to use spotify.
Great Vide, many thanks.
Streaming is even putting it on youtube?
its like the same youtube 2k-5k every million views... 3k for every million song plays
W 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I'm coming back around,Game.
In UK they pay artist whose music is playing on radio online or national USA do not
Sure they do, you need to join a PRO
And they show a Splice ad after the video smh
Broo do you have a second channel where you could dive deep and expand on different topics ???
12 videos a day from me would be crazy lol but no
can you talk about how record labels inflate their artist fame and explain how to do it ? to cut out a middle man
only employee I’ve ever seen outsmart the industry was frank and they wanted his head for it 😂
Should i start a digital record label? I know there is no money in it but i want to help
You can right now without any paperwork
Gems
Game are you on Spotify.?
I took my album down from streaming
Correct however they have the foundation that artist don't the bank most people won't support independent America is so condition
Hi. What effect do you apply to the vocals for the remix? It's like my vocals are always dim. Even if I write the notes correctly, it's like they are not compatible with the vocal.
Parallel compression, widening effects
@@busyworksbeats thanks
11:30 bro this is another ridiculous point. You literally said it yourself. You paid more for CDs than streams. Since consumers now pay less to listen to our music, less revenue is generated overall, so we make less. It’s just a formula, it wasn’t a negotiation.
You clearly missed my point. I said why did these corporations dictate the value for a stream?
If I buy an album that’s musical perfection and play it once a year, it’s not worth $0.003 to me, it’s worth much more but due to ignorant artists, they’d prefer stream count numbers over real revenue.
If you're a songwriter + singer ,.. you MUST go do live perform on the road, you can't just sit on your couch playing pokemon, period..
so these societies are the ones that will make you profit, through commercials,etc. Definitely not coming from this streaming industry, period..
once you're already seriously well known in public, by then these streaming industry will treat you as their VIP customer.
the live industry has been decimated. The venues now take a huge cut of your merch and now the majority of them are owned by Live Nation, jacking up ticket prices.
Thank you for what you do.
The Real Talk on these TH-cam streets….✡️Salutation Of Peace✝️
I remember this video
its crazy how much music artists dont know this shi
You mentioned that streaming platforms generate low revenue for artists. However, isn't it true that these platforms have provided a global reach for artists, especially independent ones, which was not possible before? How do you reconcile this benefit with the low revenue argument?
You suggested that selling physical CDs could generate more income than streaming. However, in the digital age where physical sales are declining and digital consumption is increasing, how practical is it for artists, especially emerging ones, to invest in physical sales?
You encouraged musicians to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset. While this is beneficial, isn't it also true that not all artists have the skills or desire to handle the business side of things? Shouldn't there be a balance where artists can focus on their creativity while also having professionals handle the business aspects?
Im gonna play all the roles
the music industry is evil, okay, but what's the alternative
New parts coming soon
@@busyworksbeats aiight man bless us
Guns and Roses & Metallica have just over 1B streams for their top songs on TH-cam
Wow that's evil. Investors invest in gangstar rap to create an income in the prison system.
Game.
Ohhhh he just ChatGPT'd his answers!
Lol would you rather I Google them
It sounds like record labels need to downsize
MIDDLE MAN ARE MPC!!
Bmi
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