Ha egy zenei albumból eladnak 100,000 darabot az Egyesült Államokban fizikai formában, 10 dolláros áron, akkor az mennyi bevételt hoz?

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"So how in the world with all this money being spent, do labels turn a profit? Record companies will gross approximately $10.00 for every CD that is sold. If they are good at what they do, many of their artists will sell a million units which is $10 million. When everything mentioned is paid, the record label stands to make nearly $6 million on that artist, who by the way, owes them their $1 million advance! In this example, the artist would pocket approximately $300,000."

Ez alapján 10 milliós bevételből 6 millió a kiadóé, és 300 ezret kap meg tisztán az előadó a cikk állítása szerint.

Egy másik forrás:

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"In the making of a CD here are the key players and the percentage of sales that they get, Artist (6.6%) Producer (2.2%) Songwriters (4.5%) Distributor (22%) Manufacturing (5%) Retailer (30%) Record label (30%)."