Being a musician professionally sounds like a pretty sweet idea for many people. Concerts, the road and some think, a ton of cash. However, it's not much of a living, even for bands that get a lot of attention, as the cost of touring is over the top.
Touring really costly
A lot of people may imagine the life of a touring musician involves plush tour buses, groupies, endless partying and lots of cash. Maybe for some, but most bands or artists trying to make a living don't make much of one.
It is quite intriguing whenever you think about what The Dresden Dolls, a Boston group, made on their tour, according to a 2007 NPR interview. The two in the group, Brian Viglione and Amanda Palmer, only made $1,500 a month from the tour each. That is not a lot of cash for spending time in a record deal and touring. They even opened from some pretty big gigs.
Assuming they tour regularly, they will make $18,000 a year.
CD sales may bring them just a little bit more cash considering they get $1 off every CD sale.
Slowly gets better
Oh, Sleeper is a band that is considered "mid-level" since it has been around for a few years and has a following. Band member Shane Blay posted typical expenditures related to touring. He said that bands make money based on the amount of merchandise sold and the number of enthusiasts who arrive. The groups have to pay the venue for using the facility too. His band made about $600 per night for the venues on average due to $300 in merchandise sales and $300 in location profits.
Groups pay to print shirts. He reported $7.50 per shirt, which they sell usually at $15 per, meaning its half the price. So of that $300, $150 is already gone. Venues usually charge a 25 percent commission, $75, and the band's manager receives a 15 percent cut of the profits, or $11.25, meaning the band makes $63.75 from $300 in product sales. From guaranties go, 15 percent off the top goes to the band's manager and 10 percent goes to their booking agent, who arranges tour dates. That leaves $225 per night, before paying travel expenditures, which he quotes an average of $150 just in fuel between gigs, leaving $75. Then, after a $10 per day food spending budget for all five band members plus their merchandise seller, $60, which leaves $15. In total, that's $78.75 per night.
Divided six ways, that's $13.12 per night, per band member. That does not consist of whether or not their van breaks down or if they need to stay in a hotel or go to a doctor.
Only biggest ones get paid
The Daily Mail explained that the very best way to make cash while touring is to be large enough that enough tickets will sell to make the extra cash. Roger Waters toured in 2010 which made about $90 million. The costs were only $60 million, which means he made a lot of additional cash.
However, the struggling artist does struggle and likely pretty hard. NBC News, the news site formerly known as MSNBC, ran an article in 2008 about a number of bands which were an inch from having to get rid of tours and possibly quit their profession due to high fuel prices.
Whenever you download music for free, the band ends up losing money there too.
Touring really costly
A lot of people may imagine the life of a touring musician involves plush tour buses, groupies, endless partying and lots of cash. Maybe for some, but most bands or artists trying to make a living don't make much of one.
It is quite intriguing whenever you think about what The Dresden Dolls, a Boston group, made on their tour, according to a 2007 NPR interview. The two in the group, Brian Viglione and Amanda Palmer, only made $1,500 a month from the tour each. That is not a lot of cash for spending time in a record deal and touring. They even opened from some pretty big gigs.
Assuming they tour regularly, they will make $18,000 a year.
CD sales may bring them just a little bit more cash considering they get $1 off every CD sale.
Slowly gets better
Oh, Sleeper is a band that is considered "mid-level" since it has been around for a few years and has a following. Band member Shane Blay posted typical expenditures related to touring. He said that bands make money based on the amount of merchandise sold and the number of enthusiasts who arrive. The groups have to pay the venue for using the facility too. His band made about $600 per night for the venues on average due to $300 in merchandise sales and $300 in location profits.
Groups pay to print shirts. He reported $7.50 per shirt, which they sell usually at $15 per, meaning its half the price. So of that $300, $150 is already gone. Venues usually charge a 25 percent commission, $75, and the band's manager receives a 15 percent cut of the profits, or $11.25, meaning the band makes $63.75 from $300 in product sales. From guaranties go, 15 percent off the top goes to the band's manager and 10 percent goes to their booking agent, who arranges tour dates. That leaves $225 per night, before paying travel expenditures, which he quotes an average of $150 just in fuel between gigs, leaving $75. Then, after a $10 per day food spending budget for all five band members plus their merchandise seller, $60, which leaves $15. In total, that's $78.75 per night.
Divided six ways, that's $13.12 per night, per band member. That does not consist of whether or not their van breaks down or if they need to stay in a hotel or go to a doctor.
Only biggest ones get paid
The Daily Mail explained that the very best way to make cash while touring is to be large enough that enough tickets will sell to make the extra cash. Roger Waters toured in 2010 which made about $90 million. The costs were only $60 million, which means he made a lot of additional cash.
However, the struggling artist does struggle and likely pretty hard. NBC News, the news site formerly known as MSNBC, ran an article in 2008 about a number of bands which were an inch from having to get rid of tours and possibly quit their profession due to high fuel prices.
Whenever you download music for free, the band ends up losing money there too.
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