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How are musicians supposed to survive on $0.00173 per stream?
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Easy.
The average middle class income in Canada is $70,000. All I have to do is get 40.5 million streams per year to afford a small home 2 hours away from the city where I play music.
Honestly, you can be a full-time musician or you can have a comfortable life. You can't have both.
You're probably still right but the comparison to a job doesn't make sense because the labor component isn't continuous for streaming. The job would be live touring, streaming would be additional income on top.
I would agree, but shows on the road habitually pay close to nothing because musician compensation hasn't really increased in the last half century. So generally you make money off of album sales and merch sales at shows, not really money to live off of either.