Stat Quo Speaks on Advantages of Indie Over Major

A lot of artists are going the independent way, and saying 'fuck you' to the major labels. Why sign to a major label to get a $500k advance, and get 35 cents off each of your CDs sold, when you can put up the music on iTunes yourself, and keep up to $5 on each CD sold to yourself. Former Shady-Aftermath artists, Stat Quo, during a recent interview with HHDX, spoke on the advantages of being Independent over being signed to a major label.







“You can put your own music on iTunes. iTunes takes 30 percent of it. That means essentially if they sell it for $9.99, you’re getting $7. Even if you go through an online distributor, they take 20 percent and you get 80 percent of it. You’re still winning. If I sell a CD, and lets say that I’m just putting it on iTunes, I’m getting $7 in my pocket for every CD that I sell. Whereas if you go through a label, what do they give you? A dollar? Some change? A label is only good at building your brand to where you can go all over the world and be who you are.”





True, established acts that have money saved up are better off going the indie route. I hope Stat Quo and Game can pull off that 'The Firm Records' they started together a couple of years ago, so Game doesn't have to sign with Cash Money. I am a Game fan, and I know that at this point in his career, he can barely go platinum with an album again. If his albums are flat-lining at about 300k sold, it will only be wise to go the indie route. Even if he doesn't sell that much with the indie deal, and he sells just about 150k copies total, it is still a good look...that is about $750k made off the album if he got $5 off each CD. He wouldn't even get that much if his album sold a million copies on a major label.