This article was published on June 10, 2010

How much (or little) do musicians make online?


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This chart shows how much sales or online music plays a musician has to make to equal the USA minimum monthly wage. Of course, musicians get income from multiple sources, but this certainly does show that it takes a lot of song plays to make a living strictly from streaming.

Image from Flowing Data

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