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Re: What's the average Royalty percentage in a record deal?
      24/09/11 09:09 PM
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Average first deal? 12% artist royalty. Usually rises throughout a deal so that a second record may rise to 15% etc .. indie deals are a touch higher and on some deals there are milestone bonuses.

Big act? Well - REALLY big acts will be on license deals - in which case 50% or more..... but a big "record deal" would be 18 - 20%.

A crap deal would be 8% but they're not unheard of.

To be honest - whatever you can imagine will have happened at some stage - but 12% is about average for a first deal. Having said that - this is changing very fast and there is no way you could go to a label with a pop act and look for such a deal. They just do not exist.


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* What's the average Royalty percentage in a record deal? DAN 24/09/11 05:15 PM
. * Re: What's the average Royalty percentage in a record deal? narcoman   27/09/11 05:29 PM
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