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Originally Posted by mccrabney
this is false. it is easier than ever before to make a living by selling your music. when was it ever better?
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It depends on what kind of music you do, how you promote it, and how popular you are.
Our album is on Spotify, Deezer, Google Play Music, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, Youtube Music, Tidal, Napster (yes it still exists!), and probably a few other streaming services I forget, and we've raked in a whopping grand total of $71 in streaming revenue since 2016. We do niche music in a niche genre; a big gig for us is an audience of 40 people although occasionally we'll play to a few hundred at a festival.
By far the most money we make is from gigs, followed by selling physical CDs at gigs. We have download cards as well but nobody buys them; they all want the actual CD. Our annual sales revenue from physical CDs is typically 10-20 times higher than our streaming revenue.