Do music artists make more money playing concerts or with CD sales?

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Bands certainly make more money from concerts. Most major label contracts only pay a small fraction of each CD-- there are many, many reductions taken from the artist's royalties. So unless your CD sells millions of units, you're not going to make much. For live performances, however, the artist keeps most of the money.
Basically this can be extended to the debate about pirating digital music: it's not going to kill the artist, it's only killing the record companies.
Here's a great article on the subject:
http://www.musiclaw.info/contractbasics.html

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