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How Labels And Artists Divvy Up Your Dollar Online

Posted by timothy on from the heads-i-win-tails-you-guessed-it dept.

Subliminal Fusion writes "Business 2.0 has an article that breaks down where that $1 goes when you buy a song from iTunes or other online music services. Key figures: the site takes .40, the labels take .30 and the artists get a measly 12 cents for each download."

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  1. Artists not making enough? Balderdash! by smart.id · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm sick of people saying that artists get shit for their work. Have any of you watched MTV Cribs? Have you seen the lifestyle these people live in? They have unlimited resources. As long as they're putting money in the bank, they could be set for life. There are people who do better and greater things for society and get paid much less. Perhaps, instead of talking about how little the artists get, we should be talking about how much they get...

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