Prices on albums vary in the music business, pending on an artists or bands status. There is a growing practice of releasing new artists at what's known as "new and developing artist prices." The theory is that people will fork ou some money to try something that is fresh and new at a bit of a steeper price. So what happens is a number of debut albums are released at mid-price. Because for the history showing that this work pretty well when pushing new artists, the labes have gotten tougher about controlling prices, and it is harder to get limits in your contractual deal. Some record labels will take this new release to the extreme and put out radically discounted Cd's, say $6.00 PPD to get a buzz going about a new artist or band and increase the initial sales. If the label does decide to do this, they will ask you to give up you royalties on under priced albums or what is called "cheapies." In your deal you should ask for a limit fun for units sold. Unfortunately a majority of the labels won't agree to unit limits. They say that they will just put enough out there to launch your career and it is in both of your interests to raise the price.
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