DJ Tiesto earns 250 000$$ a gig

Jesus christ just check out how much these "electro kings" earned the past year

1. Tiësto - 22 million$

2. Skrillex - 15 million$

3. Swedish House Mafia - 14 million$

4. David Guetta - 13.5 million$

5. Steve Aoki - 12million$

6. Deadmau5 - 11.5 million$

7. DJ Pauly D - 11 million$

8. Kaskade - 10 million$

9. Afrojack - 9 million$

10. Avicii - 7 million$

Full article here

good for him, he's earned it.

I read that John Digweed no longer charges to DJ. He just requests that whoever wants to book him pays his travel expenses. Sounds a fair deal to me. Guys a legend, still has phenomenal skills and selection abilities. True mark of a DJ - 20+ years in the business and definitely not milking the masses these days!

Nevermind i just saw this now in general banter

MODS plz delete

  On 8/3/2012 at 11:36 PM, feltcher said:

I read that John Digweed no longer charges to DJ. He just requests that whoever wants to book him pays his travel expenses. Sounds a fair deal to me. Guys a legend, still has phenomenal skills and selection abilities. True mark of a DJ - 20+ years in the business and definitely not milking the masses these days!

thats pretty badass.

there are always veterans willing to do it "for the love of the game" after making a million. sad how rare that is now.

  On 8/3/2012 at 11:36 PM, feltcher said:

I read that John Digweed no longer charges to DJ. He just requests that whoever wants to book him pays his travel expenses. Sounds a fair deal to me. Guys a legend, still has phenomenal skills and selection abilities. True mark of a DJ - 20+ years in the business and definitely not milking the masses these days!

This seems highly unlikely to me.

Maybe he's ok with not taking money for himself from his bookings but there's a whole company surrounding this guy that is at least partly dependent on him bringing in money by playing shows. I believe pretty much everything is done through Bedrock (releases, bookings, showcases) but I can't imagine Bedrock having enough income/liquidity from just sales and royalties to keep things up and running.

I've been working for agencies and events for about 6 years and at first I thought everybody was getting so much money but then you see how much it costs to keep someone/something in business and not so much is left at the end of the day.

Of course there are (quite a few) exceptions and people make a good living out of touring but there's more to it than pocketing 5000,- for playing a 1,5 hr. set.

  On 8/15/2012 at 2:57 AM, ussr said:

This seems highly unlikely to me.

 

  Quote

Why do you still DJ?

 

Because I love it.

 

 

What does it evoke from you?

 

When you spend half your life doing something you enjoy, it’s second nature to me. If I have a couple of weekends off I want to get out and play. You know for me, there’s nothing better than sharing the music I love with people who want to hear it. I don’t look at it as work—I look at it as a fun time. I don’t charge for DJing, I charge for flying to get there now. The traveling is the aspect I charge for; the DJing is free.

http://www.magneticm...ndbridge-yacht/

I guess I'm wrong.

Only thing that still makes me slightly doubt it that he actually does not ask for anything more than a ticket and a hotel room is the way he words it: "The traveling aspect I charge for; the DJing is free"

Seems sort of open to interpretation.

All in all it doesn't really matter; Digweed is a great DJ and a respectable guy.

  On 8/15/2012 at 5:07 PM, ussr said:

 

All in all it doesn't really matter; Digweed is a great DJ and a respectable guy.

Was a massive bedrock fan 2001 - 2005, went to pretty much every London party (and some of the ones they held in Brum / Brighton). Picked up his recent Cordoba mix CDs and I must say CD1 was pretty damn awesome, CD2 not so much... guess I prefer the "building" element to his sets rather than the peak time bangers.

His transitions CDs from a few years back were also pretty essential.

my guess is that the company you speak of has tons of other fingers in multiple soups.

Its weird to think those people have that much money...

and

Not one of em owns a submarine.

To be fair he's probably getting 80,000 out of the 250,000 after paying his crew, agents, label owners, taxes, etc

yeah. 80k does seem a little low, but a fair price for a night's work.

Fucking rich kids.

  On 8/16/2012 at 2:55 AM, YO303 said:

Fucking rich kids.

mind your tongue, you'll be cleaning their asses with it in a decade or so.

:cynical:

I'm cleaning their asses now!

Wheres that "mix magazine accepts bribes for DJ of the year" news story at

pauly D for life

  On 8/17/2012 at 11:46 PM, phick123 said:

Wheres that "mix magazine accepts bribes for DJ of the year" news story at

i dont know probabaly being undereported by all the other 'music news' websites that do their own form of payola aka bribes but want to make it seem like they don't

  On 8/17/2012 at 11:46 PM, phick123 said:

Wheres that "mix magazine accepts bribes for DJ of the year" news story at

http://edmsnob.com/

the blog is a bit of a painfull read though but some interesting reading if you can manage it wihout getting to annoyed by it ;)

this was my fav bit on the explosive growth of edm article

"We found nearly all EDM interest to be concentrated into four specific sub-genres: House, Trance, Techno, and Dubstep. While I initially resisted lumping everything into these four groups, our experiments showed that virtually no one could tell the difference between tracks in more specific sub-sub-genres, like progressive house or hardcore techno"

You even get a Pie-chart! ;)

http://edmsnob.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/AggregatedGenreSince04-2.jpg

i love edmsnob! that blog is funny. he's just a cranky guy.

I have a question about EDM. Is it inclusive of the techno from, say, Germany? I'm thinking poppy stuff like Kompakt. Or is it separate because it's American and, I guess, corporate?

just checked out some real "EDM". All of it has vocals! blah. sounds more like a rock/rap hybrid than anything I'd call techno.