Ice Cube has now shipped gold

[T-Dogg]

Thats good for Cube. But I think a lot of you who are saying independent is the way too go are being a little short sighted. An artist can make more money per unit independent but wont get hardly anything for shows and wont be doing many shows. An artist on a major who makes much less per unit but sells way more units will have a larger fan base, get waaaaayy more money for shows, and will be doing way more shows than an indie artist. Look at it like this:

Indie artist - 100,000 units (highly successful for an indie release) x $5 per unit =$500,000


+ 10 shows at 5,000 a show = $50,000

grand total - $550,000


major artist 2,000,000 units x .40 a unit = $800,000

plus 20 shows at $20,000 a show = $400,000

grand total = $1,200,000

According to WC in the DubCNN interview, Cube made $9 a pop. ($4,500,000 in total.)

But whatever money he made - congrats to Cube anyway!

[Monotone]

Thats good for Cube. But I think a lot of you who are saying independent is the way too go are being a little short sighted. An artist can make more money per unit independent but wont get hardly anything for shows and wont be doing many shows. An artist on a major who makes much less per unit but sells way more units will have a larger fan base, get waaaaayy more money for shows, and will be doing way more shows than an indie artist. Look at it like this:

Indie artist - 100,000 units (highly successful for an indie release) x $5 per unit =$500,000


+ 10 shows at 5,000 a show = $50,000

grand total - $550,000


major artist 2,000,000 units x .40 a unit = $800,000

plus 20 shows at $20,000 a show = $400,000

grand total = $1,200,000

the average major artist is not selling 2 million

they are struggling to go gold now a days

[al3000]

Props to Cube...there is in arcitle in Forbes or one of those business magazines that has a whole piece about Cube and this album.  Basically they are talking about how big of a power move it was for Cube to rls this album independently and how he is making twice as much money as anyone in the industry right now.

Honestly tho, cool on the gold plaque but fukka soundscan.....this album is great start to finish regardless if it sold 1 album or 100,000,000!  Thats real talk.  The fact he said fuck a major deal and went independent to still move 500,000 should be applauded.  That is a huge power move.

Yep

[Turf Hitta]

Thats good for Cube. But I think a lot of you who are saying independent is the way too go are being a little short sighted. An artist can make more money per unit independent but wont get hardly anything for shows and wont be doing many shows. An artist on a major who makes much less per unit but sells way more units will have a larger fan base, get waaaaayy more money for shows, and will be doing way more shows than an indie artist. Look at it like this:

Indie artist - 100,000 units (highly successful for an indie release) x $5 per unit =$500,000


+ 10 shows at 5,000 a show = $50,000

grand total - $550,000


major artist 2,000,000 units x .40 a unit = $800,000

plus 20 shows at $20,000 a show = $400,000

grand total = $1,200,000

the average major artist is not selling 2 million

they are struggling to go gold now a days

the average indie artist is struggling to push 10,000. based on the formula I used earlier thats about $50,000 + free drinks at the bar for performing at any small venue that will let you perform.

[Turf Hitta]

Thats good for Cube. But I think a lot of you who are saying independent is the way too go are being a little short sighted. An artist can make more money per unit independent but wont get hardly anything for shows and wont be doing many shows. An artist on a major who makes much less per unit but sells way more units will have a larger fan base, get waaaaayy more money for shows, and will be doing way more shows than an indie artist. Look at it like this:

Indie artist - 100,000 units (highly successful for an indie release) x $5 per unit =$500,000


+ 10 shows at 5,000 a show = $50,000

grand total - $550,000


major artist 2,000,000 units x .40 a unit = $800,000

plus 20 shows at $20,000 a show = $400,000

grand total = $1,200,000

According to WC in the DubCNN interview, Cube made $9 a pop. ($4,500,000 in total.)

But whatever money he made - congrats to Cube anyway!

yup. the only reason I made that post about anything other than Cube is becase a lot of people seem to think that being indie automatically gets you more money.

[Lunatic]

Good for him. Well deserved. Great album, and good to see it go gold. Cube should be goin platinum tho. This album, Westside Connection's album & War & Peace Vol.2 all went gold. Don't get me wrong that's a great accomplishment, but it feels like the quality of music on those albums (I no some will argue War & Peace) is platinum quality.

[Turf Hitta]

^True. but Cube has been around for longer than most current rap fans have been alive and rap fans in general got a short ass attention span. "They'll have a new nigga next year."

[Lunatic]

Yea true. I wanna see if Yung Joc, D4L, DFB, have a long lasting career like Cube. Shit, I'll be suprised if there around in 2 years

["THE" MoSav]

congrats to cube.

west= 

[Raphael]

 

[Cheese]

Yea true. I wanna see if Yung Joc, D4L, DFB, have a long lasting career like Cube. Shit, I'll be suprised if there around in 2 years

damn, i almost forgot about them, why you gotta bring them up again?? props to Cube though

[youngmessnucca]

congrats to Cube! Smoke Some Weeed!

[Juronimo]

I was one of those that brought the album. Props to Cube.

[Sikotic™]

Yea true. I wanna see if Yung Joc, D4L, DFB, have a long lasting career like Cube. Shit, I'll be suprised if there around in 2 years

Young Joc is with Puffy.....none of Puff's artists last lol

The other two are just a fad, they're gone.

Congrats to Cube. This is big for him.

[Narrator]

Congrats to Cube, I'm proud to have been one of the cats that supported him by buying this record.  Yeah, it could've gone Platinum, but it's still impressive when you consider that his last two albums (2nd volume of "War & Peace" and WSCG's "Terrorist Threats") both went Gold on majors.  Going indy was probably a good idea for him considering his financial pull these days, as well as the fact he probably would've gone Gold on a major label, too.

West, West y'all.