Nah he sold 22k his first week of his latest album that came out like 2 months ago ( dont know where he is at right now).. thats hella impressive considering how fucked up sales are these days.. His first 2 albums did around 150k.
He is independent.. No videoplay, no real radio play just a strong fanbase and a result of years of grindin and puttin in work.
He is independent.. No videoplay, no real radio play just a strong fanbase and a result of years of grindin and puttin in work.
lil wayne goes platinum. he getting more than .50. he already a platinum artist so his royalty rate starts off high. but for arguments sake, lil wayne clears about a dollar a cd. that is a million dollars. give him 20 grand per show at least. pencil him in for at least 50 shows. so give him a million right there. give him about 50 grand for features. another 100 grand for back sales. a major label artist that really hustle will run circles around any indie artist. the advantage for a dude like mess is he can do this however he want to and noone can ever tell him how to stand or where to stand. but he might make a couple of hundred racks in a year and somebody like wayne might make a couple of million.
some might say give me the smaller paper and let me be my own boss. others want that bigger fame, but less control
some might say give me the smaller paper and let me be my own boss. others want that bigger fame, but less control
but some people on here really think the money is in indie sales. i hear stuff like oh they got 8 dollars a album and they sold 100 thousand. reality is after all is said and done they got 4-5 an album and they sold less than 10 thousand. young rappers think so and so almost mad a million on that album. fuck a major i am gonna go indie.
go out and try and sell 5000 records. i hear stuff like it only 'sold that?'
even better go out and try and sell a 1000. to sell 5000 records you gotta have a full team behind you and a whole lotta hustle. you gotta have dudes who know what they doing dedicating their whole day to pushing you.
go out and try and sell 5000 records. i hear stuff like it only 'sold that?'
even better go out and try and sell a 1000. to sell 5000 records you gotta have a full team behind you and a whole lotta hustle. you gotta have dudes who know what they doing dedicating their whole day to pushing you.
true, some people got the game all fucked up.. there are some advantages to taking the indie route but you have to actually MOVE UNITS. I feel you tho all that fuck a major im going indie cuz thats where the money at talk only counts if you can move units and aint nobody doing no numbers anymore..
like you said if you about your hustle and got good music major label is obviously where the money at.. you dont even have to do crazy numbers e-40 barely went gold but he still gettin that show money just of the hype of tell me when to go its hard to get a single crackin independently.
like you said if you about your hustle and got good music major label is obviously where the money at.. you dont even have to do crazy numbers e-40 barely went gold but he still gettin that show money just of the hype of tell me when to go its hard to get a single crackin independently.
and on some real shit...here are the artists that are TRULY eating off of album sales alone!
http://www.riaa.com/gp/bestsellers/topartists.asp
http://www.riaa.com/gp/bestsellers/topartists.asp