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I think the last recent time musicians had to play live often to get income was during the peak of file sharing networks. Now that everybody is willing to pay f

• chha 5y ago
  Musicians need to play live now more than ever to make an income; the sale of physical records are going downwards and have been doing so for the past 20 years. [1] Unless you happen to be amongst the absolute minority of people having a hit single on your hand or a popular back catalogue, you can't expect to make a lot of money from online streams. Several sources [2][3] report that Spotify pays around 0.003 USD per stream on average. Supposedly your musics share of everything streamed in a given month will also impact the actual payout. [1] - https://gloriousnoise.com/2022/data-2021-total-music-sales-and-streams https://gloriousnoise.com/2022/data-2021-total-music-sales-a... [2] - https://subjekt.no/2020/08/09/som-musiker-er-det-nesten-umulig-a-tjene-penger-gjennom-spotify-og-det-hjelper-ikke-a-gi-ut-mer-og-oftere/ https://subjekt.no/2020/08/09/som-musiker-er-det-nesten-umul... (Norwegian) [3] - https://www.orpheusaudioacademy.com/spotify-pay/ https://www.orpheusaudioacademy.com/spotify-pay/