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# What The Artist Got
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/what-the-artist-got/
- Published: 2014-04-09T09:46:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-02T00:04:35.000Z
- Description: A new website breaks down how much of your cash actually goes towards supporting major label recording artists
- Author: Helio Rosas
- Tags: SEEDS, Music, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

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The world's top record labels have taken something of a publicity kicking in recent years, and a new platform is aiming to dig the heel in a little further with a website that breaks down just how much money major artists actually make.  
[Songeist](http://songeist.com/?ref=protein.xyz), a platform for discovering and supporting emerging talent that claims to be able to cut out an unnecessarily expensive middleman, has broken down a collection of recent big hitters by cost. On [What The Artist Got](http://www.whattheartistgot.com/?ref=protein.xyz), Katy Perry's wailing Kerouac homage 'Firework', for example, is listed as earning her roughly £584,000 in revenues. But according to the company and based on a 79p digital download, an alternative approach to business could have wrangled Perry as much as £4.4 million all to herself.   
Although this content, developed with [Holler London](https://twitter.com/hollerlondon?ref=protein.xyz), is clearly designed to promote Songeist's model, it also raises questions about hidden revenues and how much artists are really supported. What The Artist Got shines a bit of light onto a decidedly opaque industry, showing the consumer how much of their hard earned cash ultimately goes towards the artist.