TWICE's earnings for the digital sales of 'Cheer Up' were revealed and give an insight to how digitals earn an artist

[Haruwu]

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song of the decade national hit only racked up 40k for the girls to split even with 100m+ streams and 780m won total earnings? 

 

thank gawd TWICE earning that bank with touring/cfs and physicals

[JihyoStoleMyHeartAYAYAY]

Queens of CF 

[MinAi]

Damn, korea's digital platforms are really sucks.

[WonderTwice]

HARU your sig is is amazing honestly sana was just too cute when that happened

 

also we been knew digitals only bring in a little the real money is cf / tours / and physicals in which TWICE is a wall in 

[dmlve]

They're getting bank where it matters

[gobSIDES]

As ppl have been saying for a long time-Digitals earnings suck ass. 

[momo's lamborghini]

Only 5%

Glad they have concerts ,CFs etc

[amal.ha]

That's known that if the group doesn't write and produce theie own songs they earn next to nothing in Digital sales. But do these count only streamings or also Dls ? I believe they earned more in DLs.

[Haruwu]

 

HARU your sig is is amazing honestly sana was just too cute when that happened

 

also we been knew digitals only bring in a little the real money is cf / tours / and physicals in which TWICE is a wall in 

 

i know she is that confetti eating queen..

[Im_Nayeon]

I read that Bol4 only earned something like 65k for 200m streams one year too, and they're entitled to royalties. 

 

Digitals are obviously important but they make absolutely nothing for the artists/idols.

[The_Vixen]

That's why I think the guy from ikon is lying about his royalties saying a month he could buy 2 exported cars

[monia]

wow even Cheer Up don't bring much money despite having almost 3 million dls and 150 million streams Korean music industry really sucks 

 

glad that the girls have huge cf deals and tours and Japan also the best physicals for a gg

[LilDdalgi]

 

Korean music industry really sucks 

 

I'm not sure if that's only limited to Korea though. I never heard anyone saying that they earn much with Digital/Streaming pages, no matter where.

[TaeGiElitist]

I'm not sure if that's only limited to Korea though. I never heard anyone saying that they earn much with Digital/Streaming pages, no matter where.

Drake does

[xxxcherie]

JYP was right

 

 

 

referring to this

https://onehallyu.com/topic/692974-jyp-says-jype-focuses-more-on-the-physical-market-than-digital/

 

 

[LilDdalgi]

Drake does

 

Well Drake is on a different level, should have much more downloads and streams, so earns much more money and is only one person as well. The revenue is still probably not as much as you might expect from the amount of people who are listening to the song. 

[Belkiss]

Wbk that melon pays shit

Tours>physicals>cfs>black hole>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>digitals

[Gilraen92]

Digitals are only good as an indicator of "public recognition" but at the end physicals/tours/CFs make way more money, so when people shit in some groups for having weak digitals but great physicals/touring power is ridiculous.

[copperfire]

That's why I think the guy from ikon is lying about his royalties saying a month he could buy 2 exported cars

Except ikon also has a hand in writing and composing their stuff so they have another income stream right there.

 

Edit: Also his the royalties are not just from digitally streamed music but technically it's for everytime their song is used for commercial purpose.

[Rojen]

Youtube Korea probably pays more than Melon etc 

[monia]

I'm not sure if that's only limited to Korea though. I never heard anyone saying that they earn much with Digital/Streaming pages, no matter where.

tbh I don't even know how much the singers in my country earn with digitals but I think korea's one of the worst ones 

 

btw what happened to iRiver or something like that i wonder if it changed anything.

[gobSIDES]

Drake does

To be fair Drake is currently the biggest music artist in the world right now. Couple that with the fact that his primary market has moved almost exclusively digital-Korea in this respect is like the US 10 years ago-He is of course going to be making a lot from digital. 

 

Drake also has signed exclusive deals with platforms like Apple Music in the past and built release strategies around shipping only digital. 

 

The comparison isn't exactly a relevant one comparing it to Korean music-even in the US a lot of big arist aren't making what Drake makes from digital. 

 

I mean if it was all rosy you wouldn't have things like this happening in western music where digital/streaming platforms are by far the strongest. 

 

https://mashable.com/2018/01/31/copyright-court-rules-streaming-companies-have-to-pay-artists-more/?europe=true#J_uUXo91HPqw

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/27/this-us-is-going-to-make-streaming-services-pay-more-for-music.html

 

 

In a similar move as Korea's biggest digital platform for music and an attempted push this year into the market from Apple Music I believe MelOn is also increasing the percentage split too. 

[momo's lamborghini]

By my rough estimate , twice would have made around $180k from their album sales of page two considering 5% earning of total sales

[gobSIDES]

Except ikon also has a hand in writing and composing their stuff so they have another income stream right there.

 

Edit: Also his the royalties are not just from digitally streamed music but technically it's for everytime their song is used for commercial purpose.

This is just about digital/streaming tho. 

 

Bol4 write most of their own stuff too. From 213m streams they only made about 61k from streaming service in spite of having writing credits too. 

[TaeGiElitist]

To be fair Drake is currently the biggest music artist in the world right now. Couple that with the fact that his primary market has moved almost exclusively digital-Korea in this respect is like the US 10 years ago-He is of course going to be making a lot from digital. 

 

Drake also has signed exclusive deals with platforms like Apple Music in the past and built release strategies around shipping only digital. 

 

The comparison isn't exactly a relevant one comparing it to Korean music-even in the US a lot of big arist aren't making what Drake makes from digital. 

 

I mean if it was all rosy you wouldn't have things like this happening in western music where digital/streaming platforms are by far the strongest. 

 

https://mashable.com/2018/01/31/copyright-court-rules-streaming-companies-have-to-pay-artists-more/?europe=true#J_uUXo91HPqw

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/27/this-us-is-going-to-make-streaming-services-pay-more-for-music.html

 

 

In a similar move as Korea's biggest digital platform for music and an attempted push this year into the market from Apple Music I believe MelOn is also increasing the percentage split too.

 

Yeah you're right but it's not just melon I mean the song made 780mil won but everyone got their share first and it looks like only 40k was left for twice. That's not fair either by jyp.