Quote Originally Posted by thetonewrecka
In all honesty, Beatport told me they weren't interested in my music, or the label to be offered on their site.
Yeah, they have a very interesting work ethic I guess. It's all about marketing apparently. I actually just signed some contracts for beatport yesterday, but previously I was rejected 3 times. This time worked out for various reasons.

MP3 sales sadly seem to be increasingly popular but once again I think the whole market for that is a bit ****ed. Once Beatport built a decent size, few sites wanted to challenge it, or they just don't have the capitol to do so.

Quote Originally Posted by dirtybass
I don`t think there is an average pressing/selling number for techno these days. It seems pretty random by all accounts.
Sales in the minimal arena run up to 10,000
Bish bash techno goes from 500 to 1500 roughly, but I`ve heard claims of techno techno still selling 5-10,000
There is usually a minimum though. Many distributors won't deal with anything below 500 copies. A lot of the minimal kids are claiming they're selling 3,000 records but speaking to the distributors I can confirm a lot of them are full of shit. I'd say your average minimal record is probably going to sell around 600-1500 copies. That's just a guess on my limited knowledge of what some average labels are doing.

As for hard techno, it's really ****ing hard for a hard techno release to do more than 500 copies these days unless it's some sort of Intec kind of crap. The biggest heavier labels that used to be selling 10,000 copies are more like 1,500-2,000 tops now like DB said. These days I think the only way a harder record is going to sell 10,000 copies again is to be an anthem track like Murder Was the Bass or something. Realistically, if you're going to put out a hard techno record you're most likely going to lose money. If you're lucky you can make a hundred euros or something.