You’re essentially pirating music by using Spotify
As above, you can see the payout rates in the article… a liveable wage on just Spotify alone is not equivalent to piracy which pays artists nothing, this is on top of Apple Music etc
In 2024, Spotify alone paid out a record $10 billion to the music industry—totaling nearly $60 billion since our founding.
10 billion in a year is not piracy (which is $0), are you the author of the article?
You have to consider that most musical acts are NOT solo acts. Split that $5k a month between a band of several people and it’s not livable anymore. I think you have to be up in the several million listens range to have it be “livable.” That also assumes you maintain that level of interest indefinitely.
In 2024, more musicians are making and releasing music than ever before. In fact, a new report has found that more music is released in a single day now than in the entire year of 1989.
the market is flooded, you’ll need to really put a lot of effort in to break out
Did you not read your own article you linked to?
https://simplebeen.com/artists-make-on-spotify/
As above, you can see the payout rates in the article… a liveable wage on just Spotify alone is not equivalent to piracy which pays artists nothing, this is on top of Apple Music etc
10 billion in a year is not piracy (which is $0), are you the author of the article?
You have to consider that most musical acts are NOT solo acts. Split that $5k a month between a band of several people and it’s not livable anymore. I think you have to be up in the several million listens range to have it be “livable.” That also assumes you maintain that level of interest indefinitely.
that’s just spotify, i assume you would also have youtube, apple music, and bandcamp and also do live performances on top
it’s never been easy to make money in music, these guys will tell you:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qkY2yj4_A
and that was the 70’s, as mentioned earlier:
the market is flooded, you’ll need to really put a lot of effort in to break out