[Ti] [OT] Applemusic.com - is the price right?

[b]

Roger Snyder paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>n 5/1/03 4:46, "Trevor J. Hutley" wrote:
>
>>  My feeling - before any announcement from Apple - was that somewhere
>>  between ¢10 and ¢25
>
>     I understand Apple gets about 1/4 of the total price, (meaning $.75 goes
>elsewhere). This would eliminate 10 to 25 cents a piece.
>
>     An just think, why would music companies allow there songs to be sold do
>cheap. $1.20 an album? Except for the productions costs, which are minimal,
>they would be making factor of 10 less per CD.
>
>     And what would an artist make per CD? $.005 per CD on a million sales is
>only $5000. Not a lot for a million seller.

@ 75 cents to the music co, and with a 6.5% royalty to the artist 
(more or less) = 4.5 to 5.5 cents per track X a million? 45 to 55 
thousand per single. But, the reality is that most artists [save for 
all but the most established big sellers] derive the bulk of their 
income from touring and merchandise sales. Still, an extra 50 grand 
here, 50 grand there, pretty soon, it adds up.

~flipper