dollar beats, 5 dollar beats, what's the deal?..

[MrJames851]

but I do co-sign the idea of marketing to aspiring professionals which is outnumbering the amount of just fans quickly, I'm working on ways to do that right now

 

[California]

50 Cent, Rihanna, & Mariah Carey are established artists who have huge machines behind them, have millions of fans & have sold tons of records. Their songs are playing on the radio & TV all day & blasting in the clubs all night. These same songs which the General Public are familiar with, are beig sold for .99 cents through iTunes which is owned by APPLE (A Major Corporation). I dont see how joe smoe w/ a website selling beats really compares (not that i'm talking about you personally). Plus there's waayyy more people buying music (completed songs that are on the radio) than their are buying beats (only rappers & singers).

50 cent is selling millions of copies which means he can afford to sell it for 99 cents , but besides that obvious point, another one is that they arent selling the rights to the song for 99 cents , just the right to listen to it. if you had completed songs that you were selling for 99 cents on itunes , there would be no problem with it, but you are selling the rights to it for 99 cents and not selling them in millions (the more people buy something, the less you can charge , thats how 50 cent can sell songs for 99 cents and thats how "buy in bulk" works) . so its a false comparison . a better comparison would be you selling your beat to 50 cent to use without giving you credit for 99 cents

 

[j.troup]

my hang up is that I can't just let every little poop-butt rapper take a ride on my joints like a 99 cent hooker ... really, I don't even like the idea of releasing instrumentals to the public that you sold to an artist for every rapper to jump on it for free, if I was a rapper that paid Bangladesh for A-Milli I'd be kinda pissed that everyone has what I paid for for free, getting shows off of it, older rappers remaining relevant off it (like KRS jumping on it), Conrad mentioned you sign an agreement that you won't SELL the beat to another person, is it okay because the buyer released it before all the mixtapes that will follow? or because the producer wasn't making money from that?... I think that also has contributed to people not wanting to pay for beats, because you can just wait for the instrumental to leak and then you have a beat from Timbo on your project just like the person that paid ... so me personally, I'd wanna jump off a cliff if I had a bunch of wack rappers having their way with my art, its not worth the amount of return to me, I'd rather try to get my industry placements where I can and sell to independents on a regular basis, use the industry to boost my profile to raise the prices to everyone else and I'm good, probably a website or blog, but I can't do the 99 cent thing, I wouldn't even feel right taking business away from people tryna get paid right from this, that's messing up the game

Ego has no place in business.


I don't make beats to sit around on my hard drive, looking pretty to all the other files on my computer. I make beats so those beats can make me money.

Sell beats to 3000 cats worldwide at .99 cent a pop, that's your major placement money right there.


While you're waiting on that major placement (which the probabilities are getting smaller and smaller, due to the increasing number of producers and the decreasing number of major label projects), you coulda made that advance money 10 times over again just by selling beats to whoever wanted em.


But i used to feel the same way as you. Didn't want any MC Git Bizzy on my beats. But then I had to realize that because of my ego, I had all these beats just sitting on my hard drive. 100's of hours of work, for nothing. NO money. NO songs done. NO exposure. NOTHING.


So what's the point?