Get Your Label On Beatport

[Dave Elyzium]

PM'd you

[Jay Pace]

not anymore under their new price structure :hissyfit:

Hmmmm
They've changed the pricing to dollars....

But the first track listed (soulmate - roots) costs $2.40 on trackitdown and $1.49 on beatport.

Guy McAffer - blow your horn: Beatport $1.99, Trackitdown $2.40

You can't be the smaller player and charge a load more for exactly the same track, delivered in the same method at the same quality. Its madness.

If two record shops opened up next door to each other, one selling records for a fiver and another selling exactly the same for 8 pounds who would you go with?

As a consumer you would even bother walking into the more expensive store. And as a businessman, you'd be more inclined to shift 100 units with the cheaper store than 5 in the more expensive store.

I prefer the idea of track it down to bumraping beatports behemoth, but the pricing just makes no sense. You can't sell an identical product with a 50-100% markup when the same product is a available cheaper just a mouse click away.

[The_Laughing_Man]

Sometimes you have to support the little guy, and the price, is price.

It`s the same as buying local produce from small retailers and paying more, or, paying less and going to Tesco, or Asda or whoever, and paying less, but supporting bastards in the process.

Beatport can keep the price down, because their take is higher.
So you save money, but in the end you support a system that is essentially a continuation of the system that has been shafting artists since the days of elvis.
The digital revolution is SUPPOSED to be moving things more into our favour.

My fear and dissapointment is that most people won`t care. The music industry gets away with these things, because too many people are willing to face the wall and drop pants to get their little fix of success.

[Jay Pace]

Most people don't care. Thats why the russian sites selling albums for a dollar do so well, and why allofmp3 was until recently the third biggest source of uk net traffic.

Inside communities of artists I can see why people should care - support each other etc. But then I'd expect most artists to be able to sell direct as well, and do business that way. Nothing stopping them if they're under non-exclusive contracts.

From a consumer point of view - how are they to know that beatport rapes the artist harder than trackitdown? Just looks like poor pricing to most people.

Factor in the truth that plenty of people (outside the west) don't have the dosh to spend on paying an extra dollar a track in the hope that more of it goes to the artist. I'm quite impressed that people buy tracks here at all.

Still waiting for a russian style mp3 aggregator to spring up, that just pays all artists directly minus hosting costs. A sort of "artists direct" collective distribution/sales point. If I had the brains or the finance I'd do it myself...