Here's the Thing! 13/06/24

Compact Cassette Revolution (Again)...

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Jun 05, 2024

Here’s the Thing!

Let's get straight to the point!

Compact Cassette Revolution (Again)...

Mary Spender’s video is worth watching.

Especially check the maths regarding a musician's income from 100,000 streams on Spotify versus selling Cassettes to, let’s say 1,000, True Fans.

Spotify = $0.04 per 10 streams,
so 100,000 streams = $400 (less aggregation costs)
Mail-order cassette album or EP at $10 per cassette, plus packaging and postage.
This is $10,000 gross profit. At between $2-3 overhead cost per cassette (for duplication and artwork etc), it is somewhere between $6,000 and $7,000 net profit.

Even if you only made and sold 50 cassette albums, you’d make more than from 100,000 Spotify streams.

For an independent artist, it’s worth thinking through.

My only doubt/question: does anybody actually own a cassette player anymore!!!