Yes, Artists Are Still Making Money in the Music Industry

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February 10, 2011{ 4 Comments }

iStock 000015366592XSmall Yes, Artists Are Still Making Money in the Music Industry We see it every day here at CD Baby. But how are they doing it?

Digital Music News posted an article called 32 Different Ways Artists Can Make Money, listing common revenue streams for live performers, composers/songwriters, producers, lecturers, session-musicians, and acts who can turn their brand into a business.

CD Baby can definitely help with a handful of the big items on that list, including physical and in-store distribution, digital distribution, live gig sales, etc. Check out our growing list of artist-services HERE.

-Chris R. at CD Baby

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  • http://www.proper-band-websites.com Padma

    Thanks for directing me to this post. There’s a stage before any of these tips will work though – you have to build an audience! Promoting your band online can have a massive impact on sales, and therefore publishing royalties, live show fees, etc. Read our interview with British folk noir duo Bitter Ruin about how they have gone from the local music scene to international touring, using the web to stay connected with the fans they make along the way.

    • Chris R. at CD Baby

      Thanks for sharing!

  • http://www.facebook.com/poppa.madison Poppa Madison

    Is there no place in the minds of the Social Media masses for the non-touring recording studio artist who simply prefers to stay in the studio and write songs and compose and sing and produce Mp3′s and
    CD’s ?

    I mean can someone explain to me why the masses (appear) to only be accepting of LIVE performers when in the end, they are only making the same choice( to buy the music) they would make if they heard and liked a non-live performing artists works?

    I think a lot of this “Via Social Media Acceptance Criteria” is pushed like drugs into the minds of the masses by those who make money from social media one way or another, their mantra being;

    “You must be on Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest and all the social media websites and keep on daily email and blog interacting with your “Fans” ( Wot is a fan pray tell?) so that they really ACCEPT YOU (Wot??) ”

    While I agree that one should sensibly use the Internet to market one’s product, all this endless (and more like me I suspect are now beginning to think) often mindless virtual interaction with Social Media is a pain is the rear that consumes far too much valuable time needlessly. It seems like someone has invented the medium as the forum for a game where people have to incessantly play for and ply for “Fan attention”.
    And if you don’t……………..well……watch out Artist Buddy………”No one will want to know you”.

    As I see it, someone either likes the music/song or they don’t …….that is the bottom line. As for fans? Like performers they just come and go and can be fickle as to their “Performer loyalties”.

    Zheesh!……..I just wanna let people hear the music I produce, and not to judge me by clothes and gimmicks I don to impress or what I “social media reveal” about my daily life events so as to try and convince them I am for real!

    Like an Artist or not………it’s the “music purchasing choice” made that in the end that defines one as “A Fan”.

    And what lines most feature in webposts now?

    “Nobody buys CD’s anymore!” and “There’s no money in Music!” et al et frickin’ al !

    So why should artists even bother?

    (Yeh Yeh………..I know………..we do it “FOR THE LOVE OF IT!” ….that’s why I and I suspect most others are either just breaking even, or broke!

    http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/poppamadison

    And a Happy New Year to one and all !