It's tricky to make money from recorded music. I don't think the "industry" is to blame - it's more about peoples' consumption habits (streaming services, games

It's tricky to make money from recorded music. I don't think the "industry" is to blame - it's more about peoples' consumption habits (streaming services, games instead of records etc), and the fact that there are so many artists, so many people releasing music. Most people listen to music on streaming services. In terms of making money from streaming services, you don't. There are a zillion artists on them, and the vast majority ends up with pennies. You can sell on bandcamp etc, and that will probably generate more than streaming services, but still very little for the vast majority -people don't really buy downloads/physical music anymore, it's free on streaming services. You could try Patreon, and that might generate a bit of recurring revenue if you're active on social media. If you start getting mainstream radio play, you're doing good as the royalties from that are still pretty nice. But very few artists get there. Also, tracking publishing rights and actually paying people for radio play (or publishing in general) is an arcane, paper based mess. If you're lucky, you'll get your music licensed to TV/film/games, and that can also be a good source of revenue. But sales of recorded music, as a way of making a reasonable amount of money, is pretty much finished.