[JPL] Jazz on eMusic

[John Bishop]

Hey Flash,

Looking at our sales statements as an example, emusic seems to do about a
third the volume of what itunes does, which is pretty good considering the
market share itunes has. To add to what Rick was saying though, the reality
for the artist is fairly bleak through emusic and barely better with any of
the other services. 

While the ease of accessibility and minimal cost is great for consumers, it
should be known, especially by all us jazz industry folk, what cost this
little treat is to music makers. 

For emusic, the artist/label receives on average about .26 per tune. If the
record has non-original tunes on it, this can quickly turn into a NEGATIVE
number for the artist. Paying licensing fees for titles can mean it takes
70-80 sales before you see your first $.26 "profit" and considering many
titles might average 5-20 downloads in a month, musicians are PAYING for
people to download their music. Three-hundred sales and you can buy a tank
of gas!  

Sad thing is that every new retailing concept for music is making it even
cheaper to buy and getting further from the realities of what it takes to
make a recording and to feed and water a musician.

John

John Bishop
Origin Records
OA2 Records
www.origin-records.com
johnbishop at originarts.com
206-781-2589
 
 
 

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Rick,

That makes sense, as iTunes became the 2nd largest retailer of music in the
US last year (behind Wal-Mart) so I am sure they can afford to pay much
better than eMusic.  However, I think it would be interesting to see how
much jazz music (new and old) is downloaded off of each of the online music
services.  
I am sure iTunes would have the most downloads, but I bet eMusic is right up
there, as they are the only one I have seen that actually features Jazz
albums prominently on their New Release pages.

- Flash

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: RLeppjazz at aol.com
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> There is a trade off with eMusic.  The artist or artist's label  receives 
> less than half of what we receive on iTunes or Rhapsody.  And we  still
pay 
> royalties out of that, if using a copyrighted tune  (non-original)
> itunes and Rhapsody pay about 70 cents per download, eMusic pays 26
cents.
>  
> Rick  Leppanen
> Modern Hot Records & Pearl  Django
> www.pearldjango.com
> 
> 206-932-1448
> 



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