It’s pretty much conventional wisdom at this point that when you hand over your money for an album or single, 99.9 percent of that is going to an insidious cabal of major label fat cats and the rest is either swallowed up by marketing costs or granted to the artist like a pellet from a chicken feeder.

Except, the reality is a little more nuanced. Do artists receive considerably less than labels do from unit sales? Yes. But just how much less are they making? Where does the rest of the money go? And while we’re on the subject, how many albums does an artist need to sell just to scrape a living in this day and age?

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Well, the good people over at Superfi, one of the UK’s largest hi-fi and home cinema specialists, have put together a very handy infographic that answers all of these questions and more, starting with the typical breakdown for each sale of a CD album. You can check out the highly detailed infographic below.

For every CD album sold, the label receives 30 percent of the profits, with 13 percent typically reserved for the artist. The rest of the money goes to copyright, distribution, manufacturing, retail, and tax. Of course, we’re talking “major labels” here, which is defined as The Big Three (Warner, Sony, and Universal).

To put it another way, if an iTunes album costs $9.99, the label receives $5.35 of that, while the artist gets $0.94. As for how much an artist needs to sell in order to make a living? A lot. In fact, a recording artist needs to have sold 4,000 CD albums just to earn the monthly minimum wage.

So where are most artists making their money these days? Well, it may not surprise you to learn that touring is the big cash cow for most bands and artists these days. Of course, it helps if you’re a mega-star the size of Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga, who respectively earn $1.2 million and $1.9 million per show.

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Still, the distribution of wealth with ticket sales is far better than the recording industry. On average, artists earn about 60 percent of the total ticket price, with the rest going to show costs, service fees, and taxes. So, if your average ticket is $69.95, the artist will receive $41.30, with the rest going to service fees and show costs.

Superfi end their infographic with a helpful, envy-inducing list of the richest musicians of all time, and some of the entries will likely surprise you. For starters, no, Dr. Dre isn’t on there. This is the artists who made their fortunes solely via music and not selling their companies to Apple.