It's crazy how unprofitable making music is

[swaggyp1]

you get paid 1/3 of a cent per stream on spotify

so literally 400k streams until you make a thousand bucks

you can't really make money as an artist just by relying on people listening, you need people to come to your concert

 

[Deleted member 6128]

Tuff I have the money too I might open a studio and rent it out for $30 an hour there are so many niggers who want to be rappers now adays

 

[Deleted member 8608]

you get paid 1/3 of a cent per stream on spotify

so literally 400k streams until you make a thousand bucks

you can't really make money as an artist just by relying on people listening, you need people to come to your concert

The thing is making shows, if you have listeners you make shows and thats a looot of money, also, if you have somewhat big numbers you can make a really good living being an artist.

 

[Clark69]

A million streams could only make a little over 2K. That's fucked up. Spotify probably makes 20x that with premium and advertisements they get from a million streams

 

[swaggyp1]

Tuff I have the money too I might open a studio and rent it out for $30 an hour there are so many niggers who want to be rappers now adays

Careful doing business with blacks

They don’t always want to pay and may get violent

 

[Deleted member 6128]

Careful doing business with blacks

They don’t always want to pay and may get violent

Which is why you have them pay before and if they dont pay lock them inside them studio

 

[Deleted member 18244]

Let me guess you’re an autotune rapper

 

[Deleted member 22627]

you get paid 1/3 of a cent per stream on spotify

so literally 400k streams until you make a thousand bucks

you can't really make money as an artist just by relying on people listening, you need people to come to your concert

Spotify is really jewing artists.

 

[SLA]

My father taught me: the hardest thing to do on guitar is make money. Music is a hobby or a "passion" (careful) and not a career.

 

[horizontallytall]

Very true

Which is why you have them pay before and if they dont pay lock them inside them studio

 

[swaggyp1]

My father taught me: the hardest thing to do on guitar is make money. Music is a hobby or a "passion" (careful) and not a career.

Teaching private guitar lessons or piano lessons is a decent middle class living

I pay my guitar teacher $30 a half hour, but I believe the music school takes a big chunk

 

[Alexanderr]

you get paid 1/3 of a cent per stream on spotify

so literally 400k streams until you make a thousand bucks

you can't really make money as an artist just by relying on people listening, you need people to come to your concert

If money in my life were of no importance whatsoever I'd probably just be making and playing music for the most part.

 

[Reckless Turtle]

Making a basic music video for YT would likely be significantly more profitable.

 

[thereallegend]

Making a basic music video for YT would likely be significantly more profitable.

Hard to go viral with a zero budget music video

 

[Reckless Turtle]

Hard to go viral with a zero budget music video

Not true (regarding the budget of the video). Look at NCS and other basic visualizer channels.

 

[thereallegend]

Not true (regarding the budget of the video). Look at NCS and other basic visualizer channels.

Survivor bias

 

[Reckless Turtle]

Survivor bias

The survivor bias here is that the music is actually interesting.