> The vast majority of musicians earn less than £200 a year from music streaming platforms This is no surprise and also corresponds to what you can expect if y

> The vast majority of musicians earn less than £200 a year from music streaming platforms This is no surprise and also corresponds to what you can expect if you're a member of a copyright collecting society as a "normal" (i.e. not super famous) musician. I have had this discussion again and again with my musician friends who still think they can live as musicians from copyrights. Just have a look at an annual report like e.g. https://www.suisa.ch/de/suisa/publikationen/geschaeftsbericht.html https://www.suisa.ch/de/suisa/publikationen/geschaeftsberich.... I did a detailed analysis some years ago and found that the probability for a decent living from copyright income is < 0.1%; in comparison the probability of being seriously injured in a traffic accident in Switzerland is > 0.2%. The personnel expenses of the collecting society are roughly equal to the amount paid to the composers and musicians. For the given number of full-time positions, this results in an average annual salary of over 100,000 Swiss francs. A musician therefore earns considerably more when working as a clerk for the collecting society than when working as a musician. What an irony. It is not without reason that most of the musicians I know work as music teachers in permanent positions.