Rock Bands Actually Have High Cost Of Touring
by Cornelius Nunev
Next time one thinks tickets to a concert tour show are too much, think about what the costs of touring are. Bands virtually go broke taking their show on the road, which is something that should give one pause next time they think about illegally downloading songs.
<strong>Paying too much for a tour</strong>
Most bands or artists do not have enough cash to pay for a tour. You imagine a tour for a musician to have a lot of cash with a lot of partying and tour busses. Unfortunately, that is not the case for all.
It is quite fascinating 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 ton 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.
Granted, they also had earnings from CD sales -- royalties of $1 per CD sold -- and merchandise.
<strong>Gets better for many people</strong>
A mid-level group such as the band Oh, Sleeper, which is a metalcore band that has existed for a while, gets paid about $600 per night of playing, $300 for tickets and $300 for merchandise. Typically, bands only make money depending on what they get paid for playing there and depending on merchandise sales. Usually they have to pay the location still. The typical costs of tour were published by the band's member Shane Blay.
The cost of traveling is $10 per day for food and $150 in gasoline between gigs. The band also has to pay 15 percent to the manager and 10 percent to the booking agent out of the $300 venue cash. Of the merchandise cash, the manger gets $15 percent and the venue takes a 25 percent commission. On top of that, the band has to pay about $7.50 per t-shirt that they sell at $15, which already cuts that cost in half. Total per night, the band ends up with $78.75 after all the expenses come out.
Then there are extra emergency costs not calculated out. Without the emergencies, each band member will get $13.12 a night to play, which is not a ton of cash.
<strong>Only pays for the big wigs</strong>
It's only the biggest acts for whom the costs of touring are worth it, as a tour may sell enough tickets to be profitable. For instance, according to the Daily Mail, when Roger Waters did a tour of "The Wall," the classic album by his former group Pink Floyd, in 2010, the production, which is fantastically elaborate for those who have not seen it, price $60 million to take on tour. The tour grossed nearly $90 million, according to MTV.
Being an artist means you will struggle a lot. According to NBC News, the 2008 gas price increases made it so most bands had to terminate tours since they could not pay the extra price for gasoline.
Whenever you download music for free, the band ends up losing cash there too.
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