Who are the top 5 Highest Charging Producers?

Iamcharlie

Who are the top 5 in the game right now as far as what they charge for beats...I once read somewhere that Timbaland charges up to 200k for one beat?!?! I'm not sure if thats true. I know Drumma Boy charges about 25k...With his ego I don't even want to think about what kanye charges lol

DamagedTrax

please please please.. and i dont want to sound like a prick but stop calling them "beats".

what rappers often refer to as beats is actually music (sometimes.. sometimes a pale imitation :P)

but anyway, its music. not beats, music.

rant over :pac:

but to answer your question i havent a clue.

but with people like herbie hancock and his ilk about i really dont think any of the above named can even carry the name producer.. and that goes for a lot of producers, not just producaz from the urban scene.

BumbleB

Iamcharlie wrote: »

Who are the top 5 in the game right now as far as what they charge for beats...I once read somewhere that Timbaland charges up to 200k for one beat?!?! I'm not sure if thats true. I know Drumma Boy charges about 25k...With his ego I don't even want to think about what kanye charges lol

Timbaland charges even to listen , a ex bad boy producer told me that.

Iamcharlie

DamagedTrax, that is what its called. Hip Hop producers create beats, beats only used for Hip Hop.

Oh and BumbleB;

Yeah...Timbo charges the most currently..I read it somewhere.....It's like half a million per beat...He also says it in "Give it to me" while dissing Scott Storch..But yeah the top five right now would be Timbaland, Dr Dre, The Neptunes, Polow Da Don, and Danja. But he will be 3 if he starts on a regular basis....Cool n Dre earn a lot as well...So does J.R Rotem... Peace. Oh n Kanye should be no.4 but he aint producing right now..

dav nagle

BumbleB wrote: »

Timbaland charges even to listen , a ex bad boy producer told me that.

He is dead right too, there is too much time wasting in the music biz in general, way too much yapping.

PaulBrewer

I charge $200k to answer the phone to be asked to listen .... I then say 'No' ...

Helix

Iamcharlie wrote: »

DamagedTrax, that is what its called. Hip Hop producers create beats, beats only used for Hip Hop.

his point was that the phrase "beat" or "beats" to describe music is completely illogical

dav nagle

PaulBrewer wrote: »

I charge $200k to answer the phone to be asked to listen .... I then say 'No' ...

Not bad at all! €50 quid to sit down and talk to me

PaulBrewer

dav nagle wrote: »

Not bad at all! €50 quid to sit down and talk to me

For you it's a Mercy Mission ....

Rockshamrover

With me the first 5 minutes of each hour is free, but I only work the first 10 minutes of each hour. The other 50 minutes I spend on rapping (it's nearly Christmas after all)

Then there's the tea breaks, for which I charge double.

Bluebirdstudios

I read Bob Rock got a **** load of dosh for his Metallica work can't even type the amount I'd get finger cramp!
But he must be up there in the top 10 of expensive producers- YES / NO?

Iamcharlie

In hip hop/R&B definitely and keep in mind many of the brand name producers are locked into label song deals so they're actually getting paid less (sometimes WAY less) than their going rate. The whole 'placement' concept was built off of the album format which right now is at a failure rate for hip hop (a little better for R&B) so the budgets have to be preserved by slashing money across the board, which is why so many new producers can now get a look because the labels know they can get them for practically nothing and then move on to the next one.

The pop side of course is more money but its more of a per project situation than it is 'yo this is my rate, take it or leave it'...them days is over with the exception of the 4 or 5 producers that may be dominating the radio sound format of the moment.

old gregg

Bluebirdstudios wrote: »

I read Bob Rock got a **** load of dosh for his Metallica work can't even type the amount I'd get finger cramp!
But he must be up there in the top 10 of expensive producers- YES / NO?

he's done some pretty high profile stuff for sure that must have paid very handsomely. And then you see him taking on a project like the (most excellent) last Lostprohets album where there's unlikely to have been a major budget. I'd have lots of respect for him for sure.

PaulBrewer

He produced a girl indie band called Veruca Salt in the mid 90s ... very very good too

woodsdenis

Mutt Lange, Max Martin, David Foster, Trevor Horn, Rick Rubin would all be still in the top 10 advances and big points.