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Originally posted by ajs_agb
These charts are amazing. Its a shame they only recently started to do them. I would have loved to see what Ariana was earning during the My Everything era
Anyways, does anyone know how much roughly the artist would make. I know it's different for different artists depending on the contract you sign but at the end of the day do these artist get paid a lot? or does the money go to the label,writers, producers etc?
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Yeah, it's quite complicated. First, calculated revenue is revenue for composition and master right holders. Usually publishers/PROs get 20% of digital revenue, labels 80%.
Recording artists usually gets 15 - 30% of digital income of label, so artist's royalty is ~12 - 24% of those values. Minus producer fees (~2 - 5%) gets around 10 - 22%.
Producer should get 1.5 - 4% (usually 2.5% of HDD estimations).
Publishers/PROs get 20% and all
songwriters around 75% of its value. So songwriters should get ~15%
Of course reality is way more complicated. Artists/songwriters get recoupable advance. It means you get for example $500k at start as songwriter. To get next money, you have to recoup the advance - your total royalty must cross those $500k.