Whoo-hoo! Pay day today. I received a cheque for some work I did in October (yes, the only problem with being a freelancer is the long waits between finishing the work and receiving the money. Normally, I have to whinge like a bitch just to get a sniff of any cash, but this time around they paid up on time, which was nice of them).
More money came courtesy of CDBABY. It was $4.95 – OK, that’s not much, but that is pure profit from sales from Apple iTunes (US & Europe), Napster & Real Rhapsody. Now if you factor in that I get paid 65 cents for every download and a penny for every streamed play, you can understand my excitement. I must be selling something like seven songs a month. 🙂 All this and I don’t even promote my own music properly. So I can feel my big fat head get a little bigger with big fat pride. Uh-oh…
But if I can do this, can you imagine the kind of turnover proper recording artists are making from the digital download boom? And if you are an independent artist, own your own copyright and basically DIY without the big record companies, even if you don’t earn the big bucks, you can be happy in the knowledge that you get a bigger royalty cut than your musical peers with a record contract! 🙂
I guess the next thing would be to do a national tour. If only, eh? But I am still practising for possible live action. It’s still a bit of a dream, but I have worked out a number of stripped-down backing tracks for me to play lead guitar along to. My problem is whether or not punters will like to hear my music and whether or not they will accept instrumental guitar music without a proper band backing me up? I can’t see it myself, but I really would like to give it a crack. Here I am, 33 years old (turning 34) and I finally feel the confidence of my performance and music growing.
Crazy, ain’t it?