1. caterpillarcowboy: fred-wilson: you want to know what the new model is for music. this is the new model. gtmcknight: Metric is label-less for its new album, and instead selling it on its own website (via Topspin) and through direct distribution deals with iTunes. They have made more money with 24,000 digital downloads in three weeks than they made in four years from their last album, which sold more than 45,000 copies. “Without any intermediary, we’re making 77 cents on the dollar for every record we sell” on iTunes. Under a label deal Metric would have earned closer to 22 cents. They also sold out of $64 deluxe packages on their own site. I LOVE THIS. (via Los Angeles Times) Also, it’s a damn good album. I already have the digital, but I think I’m going to have to buy the vinyl now.

    caterpillarcowboy:

    fred-wilson:

    you want to know what the new model is for music. this is the new model.

    gtmcknight:

    Metric is label-less for its new album, and instead selling it on its own website (via Topspin) and through direct distribution deals with iTunes. They have made more money with 24,000 digital downloads in three weeks than they made in four years from their last album, which sold more than 45,000 copies.

    “Without any intermediary, we’re making 77 cents on the dollar for every record we sell” on iTunes. Under a label deal Metric would have earned closer to 22 cents. They also sold out of $64 deluxe packages on their own site. I LOVE THIS. (via Los Angeles Times)

    Also, it’s a damn good album.

    I already have the digital, but I think I’m going to have to buy the vinyl now.

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    The big labels really o have to go, they aren’t needed any more. There just isn’t a way to justify their existence any...
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    Make room for the artist entrepreneurs.
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    I already have the digital, but I think I’m going to have to buy the vinyl now.
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    Also, it’s a damn good album.
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    artist get 100%* by selling over...channels the artist uses to communicate with their...
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    you want to know what the new model
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    Each time I hear about the success of artists handling things on their own, I think less and less of the, “the internet...
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    Ja, det är klart, det är lättare att tjäna dom större pengarna utan bolag om man redan är etablerad artist, men med...
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    use of direct revenue, and cutting...the middle man. This is great… and should be used as...
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