How Rich Are Top DJ's?

diver

diver

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How much do the top DJ's earn these days?
Are some of them, especially the ones that have been on the scene for some time going to be on any rich lists? Are they worth the money? - Discuss!!!!!!
 
If you're at the top of your game then there's a lot of money to be made in DJing, but the DJs who have made the most money out of it all are the ones who have ventured into other things - like Oakie and his film soundtracks and BT and his remixes.

Whether they're worth it is all relative I guess.
 
here's one i prepared earlier.

http://www.spotlight-forums.com/showthread.php?t=27596

bear in mind many of them do soundtracks for adverts/computer games/TV, run record labels, manage artists, have investments, etc, etc

so what they get paid for a gig could be relatively a small proportion. think bad boy erick from subliminal income or oakie from the big brother tune.
 
I remember mid nineties when it was 1 - 2K per 2 hour set for the top names. Is this a lot more now? I remember Healy and Cox (dont get into another Healey debate!!) asking for 10K for a nye one year mid nineties
 
deepseadiver said:
I remember mid nineties when it was 1 - 2K per 2 hour set for the top names. Is this a lot more now? I remember Healy and Cox (dont get into another Healey debate!!) asking for 10K for a nye one year mid nineties
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A lot more - you are looking at £30K+ for some of the big names for a set at some of the big clubs these days.
 
Originally Posted by deepseadiver
I remember mid nineties when it was 1 - 2K per 2 hour set for the top names. Is this a lot more now? I remember Healy and Cox (dont get into another Healey debate!!) asking for 10K for a nye one year mid nineties

When Sasha n Co hit the really big time around 95 it was a LOT more than £1k - £2k per gig. It was probably more like £10k at the time and by the end of the 90's you are talking upwards of £20k for the Sashas, Digweeds, Cox's etc etc. Of course they would also do gigs for smaller promoters etc where they would take a reduced fee etc - big promotors like Cream and Colours paid top notch for the DJ's this was relfected in the ticke price for gigs - when I started going to Colours at the Arches in Glasgow in 1996, and Cream in Liverpool (all nighters) Sasha / Digweed tickets cost £16 - £20, now it's upwards of £25 at least (ok we are 10 years or so on now).

I snogged a very tall DJ at the Arches in Glasgow my first time there in 1996 and I can tell you he got a lot more than a couple of grand.

I guess the paypackets have sky rocketed now and also depends on how many pies the DJ's have their fingers in.

I wouldn't even like to guess how much these guys get paid now - I just hope they remember where they came from and the struggles they probably had when first starting out.
 
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Years ago i talked to one of the Soma records guys

Todd Terry was £10,000 + flights + hotel room + rider etc

this would be around 1999ish
 
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