How Musicians make money in the Music Industry

Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage (2018)

How many streams does it take to make minimum wage? Streaming platforms like Spotify now dominate the music business. Social media apps like TikTok... (2022)

How are musicians and songwriters compensated when their music is played on the radio, sold on digital platforms, webcast, or streamed on interacti... (2018)

Music streaming - playing songs over the internet "on demand" - is widely regarded as having saved the music industry, following an era of music pi... (2018)

Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage (2018)

Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage (2018)

Bands are known for drink, drugs and dust-ups. But beyond the debauchery lie four models for how to run a business. Ian Leslie explains (2018)

Hey, musicprenuer!This blog post was written by Manish Bhalia, founder and CEO of FATbit Technologies. As a budding musicpreneur, no doubt you are ... (2018)

Practically every musician has a YouTube account. But when it comes to promoting and growing a fan base, many musicians struggle. In this guest pos... (2017)

Recently, The Verge hosted a panel at Winter Music Conference to lay out some things DIY artists should do to make more money in music. Here are fo... (2019)

The music industry has come a long way since Radiohead allowed fans to pay what they wanted for an album. But there is still plenty of digital disr... (2018)

Indie artists on the side jobs they do to make money outside of music, from Cass McCombs, to Charly Bliss, to American Football. (2019)

How to Sell Led Zeppelin to a New Wave of Teenagers: In the streaming era, record companies are cashing in anew on old hits — and getting more cre... (2019)

With streaming poised to infuse billions of dollars into the record business, artists are once again hoping to get their fair share. "Since Univ... (2019)

A new study takes a look at just how many music streams an artist would need to make a minimum wage salary. Streaming is raking in cash for the ... (2020)

Inside the Secretly Lucrative World of Solo Piano Music. Thanks to streaming, a small cadre of independent solo pianists are making a killing... (2018)

On May 4, 1999, a hit was born—an unkillable one. Twenty years after the song’s release, the band’s songwriter relives the creative process behind ... (2019)

I'm making over $800 per month with my music— almost exclusively through Spotify. This is up from $400 per month last year. I don't tour, I d... (2020)

The American Dream exists, but what is the reality? (2021)