You need more than faith to get it
This evening, I and my friends was chatting about how the the music industry is going, we were talking about how the music streams work and how much music digital stores pay, we went through some of the top platforms that pays artiste per million streams, which some platforms have high pay than others, for example, Tinder is paying 12k$ plus per million streams, and Spotify is paying almost 4k$, and Itunes is paying about 7k$ plus per million streams too, which are a huge amount of money.
The music business can be tricky sometimes and the people that know more about it can pay an artist that doesn't know much about streaming less amount or less, most artists still don't understand how the music streams pay artists, they just believe that the only way one can get paid for his music is when he or she is signed to a record label, but we can't all be signed to a record label, that's why one doesn't always have to wait to be signed before they start making money from their music.
He sent me a picture of two popular artists in my country the first one was holding a reward from boom play for getting 100million streams on the platform, while the other one is holding 200 million streams, all these are ATS all-time streams, that's very huge, they will definitely make a lot of money from it, the label will definitely have their share and at the end of the day, the the artiste will have his percent of it,, cause the artiste can't have everything, unless if he's the owner of the label, which one of them is not.
He now said that with faith, he will be able to get such an amount of streams too
I told him that faith alone can't do it and he needs to work for it too, he laugh, maybe he didn't understand it though, but I believe I have told him countless times that it's not all about faith, he has to do his part too and if he's to go deep into the music business, he might be shocked about what he will find out, not that I know it all, but the few I know, I am grateful for knowing it, at least I will know what to expect.
Some artists believe that the people that have made it is all about faith and the grace of God, don't get me wrong, of course, God did his part, but you will also do your part, let's say for an example, God gave you a car, will you still wait for God to drive you around?
Of course not, you will have to learn how to drive it yourself, the music business like I have said is a very tricky one and people can benefit from your sweats if you don't understand how it works, artiste that gives their songs to bloggers to distribute without understanding how royalties works, will just be wasting their money, I believe we all know what royalties mean, but just in case you don't understand what it means, I will just write a brief explanation.
Royalty in music is the money music artists get for online streaming
Most artist songs are trending but they are not getting money from it, all because of don't understand how it works, they will pay bloggers to upload the song in the top music platforms , the blogger will do it and still be collecting their royalties, that is the double collection, haha.
Not that I am doubting my friend's faith or belief, but I am saying is that faith can't get him the streams alone, he also has to try to know how the music streams can increase, that's why they are marketers in the music industry, the truth is that there are a lot of jobs in the music industry even if you are not an artist, he will have to know how the markets works, the truth is that him knowing all these is not completely necessary if he can pay someone to do it.
As an independent artist that he is, faith alone can't get what he needs as of now if he doesn't understand more so he won't misuse it, that's why I always try to advise any independent artist to try to know more about the industry so they won't make a mistake they will regret later, cause most of these opportunities might come and if they miss it, they might not see it again, because it's rare.
I don't know much about how it works, but what I know, I like to share because it will cost me nothing to let them know the danger ahead so they will know how to handle it when it comes. I will try to write about a few of the dangers ahead.
25-05-2022
It's true that faith without hardwork is useless. If we believe and we have faith to get what we are dreaming of, ofcourse we need to do our part to make it and reach for it.