And I'm not so sure that recording albums really are a passive income stream in any meaningful sense. One would have to know how the album sales look for the av

And I'm not so sure that recording albums really are a passive income stream in any meaningful sense. One would have to know how the album sales look for the average artist. If an artist uses 5 months to record an album, then it sells for 1 year until most of the fan base has bought it, than a little for the next year and then only pennies for the rest of the decade, then that album will not constitute any more passive income than me depositing some thousand dollars in the bank. Then that artist has to go back to recording a new album in a year or two to keep afloat.