[ddots-l] Fwd: Want a music industry career? It helps to be rich
- From: Chris Smart <chris_s@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:17:55 -0500
Just passing this on.
Recently, Berklee College of Music in Boston released a study
claiming to give accurate salary expectations in various areas of
the music industry. No surprise, this document is in a /parents
sub-directory on their site, since it's just a marketing tool for
the people with the creditcards. Please see below for some
interesting and startling statistics from the UK, probably closer
to reality!
Chris
The Guardian (UK) points out the recently released Berklee salary
survey:
"the study's salary figures for musicians appear optimistic to me.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Berklee College of
Music is reliant on thousands of students enrolling in its music
programmes. The reality facing the majority of its students and
the thousands of music students at colleges and universities
across the UK when they graduate isn't quite as rosy. Once past
the first hurdle of actually getting a job, they may find that
club gigs often pay nothing at all. Some promoters even demand
that you pay to play.
According to the Musicians' Union, 87% of its members are making
less than £16,000 a year. For songwriters, the prospect of making
a sustainable living out of writing is even less likely: 90% of
PRS for Music members earn less than £5,000 a year. This indicates
that being independently wealthy is a serious advantage if one
wants to make music a full-time occupation."
Furthermore, according to a study recently conducted by the
UK-based Word Magazine, a majority of charting British pop and
rock artists were educated in private, tuition-based schools. The
magazine found that 60 percent hailed from schools requiring
annual tuition, academic admissions, connections, or all of the
above. Yet overall, just 10 percent of the general population
enjoys such privilege. Even crazier, just one percent of charting
British artists claimed the same pedigree in 1990.
So, instead of bands like the Smiths, Oasis, and the Stone Roses,
the current mainstream milieu includes well-reared artists like
Lily Allen, Mumford & Sons, Coldplay, Florence Welch and La
Roux. Digging deeper, Allen attended the pricey Bedales, at
£9,240 ($14,357) per term, while Welch attended the Alleyn's
School, whose per-term commitments push past £4,430 ($6,883).
As it's revealed 40 per cent of them went to public school... why
are today's pop stars so posh?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1336029/Posh-pop-stars-Lily-Allen-Florence-Welch--60-cent-went-public-school.html
Behind the music: Want a music industry career? It helps to be rich
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/dec/10/behind-music-industry-salaries
PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE!
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