Who makes money with music

I found a really interesting infographic about "who makes money with music". Most of you may thought that famous musicians are so rich because they make the most of the money from what they are selling. Sorry to disappoint you guys if you really thought like this but the following image illustrates in a simple but effective way, who are the big fishes in the music business.

The title of the image is not mentioned here, because i copied the image from a page where the title was written above the image. So imagine that the title would be on the picture which states:

"WHO MAKES MONEY WITH MUSIC"

As you can see, surprisingly the musicians make just 13 % in total out of their music and ticket sales. The big fish in the musician sea are the record labels and especially the distributors which make together 87 % of the sales revenue. 

I like this graphic because it illustrates in figurative by the use of symbolizing the characters of the musicians, record labels and distributors in different colors and size to show who is ruling the music business. Every element in this graphic has a specific function and content would be lost if you remove one of the elements. However, there is a lot of additional information in the band sector which would not be necessarily need. The band could have been summarized into one symbol to indicate the total amount of the band in just one symbol. Anyway i find it quite interesting to see which factors belong to the band and to split up the 100 % of the band in different factors.

The graphic is really simple and easy to understand because it has a unidimensional character according to the fact that it only focuses on the 3 main parts in music business and shows in nice characters "who is gaining who much" out of the music business. Furthermore, in fact of the well use of colors and to distinguish the characters from each other and also the amount of free space which is given in the graphic makes it in my opinion light to follow and light to read. 

The novelty use of familiar human body characters because by showing in colors and also by size  of the main focus on showing"who are the big fishes in the music sea" the graphic only focuses on the topic of showing how many percentage of the sales the main actors in the music business gain from their work.

I was shocked when I saw how much the distributors make in compare to the musicians. I think that this graphic could be in either in a business magazine or musician magazine to emphazise people that in compare to the distributors and record labels, the musicians are poor dogs.

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