The Cost of Working a Record Independently: Budgeting for Success in the Music Industry

How much do it cost to work a record independently? Anywhere from a quarter million dollar budget to a million dollar budget, depending on what you’re doing and what you’re trying to do with it. And this independent? Yeah. That’s a song or is that a project? That’s a song. And you like, I’m gonna make this my single. I’m gonna go up with, I’m gonna stay on it, and we’re gonna go up there with it. Hell, yeah. Need a quarter million just to get business. Quarter million to a million dollars. And where do that go to? Everything. All the way around the board. It’s a machine. It’s called a machine for a reason. You got marketing. You got marketing on the streets, you got market on the air, on the radio, market on the internet. It’s a machine. You can’t just do this over here and not do this over here. It’s like, no. So you can’t be broke. Independent. May y’all be seeing these folks, man. Y’all be seeing these folks.