{"id":2448,"date":"2022-08-25T00:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2022-08-25T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:05:46","slug":"how-to-earn-online-as-a-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/en\/how-to-earn-online-as-a-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"How to earn online as a Musician in 4 ways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1. <strong>Make your music available for streaming<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vast majority of listening is happening on major streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. This means that making your songs available on these platforms is essential to reach your current fans, as well as for reaching potential new fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While streaming revenue is usually measured in fractions of pennies per stream, it can add up to become a significant revenue source over time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. <strong>Earn streaming royalties through digital distribution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopify.in\/blog\/sell-music\">It\u2019s important here to understand the difference between a streaming service and a distribution network:&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopify.in\/blog\/sell-music\">A streaming service is a platform people use to listen to music. The most popular are Spotify and Apple Music.&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopify.in\/blog\/sell-music\">A distribution network distributes and collects royalties from those streaming services.&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopify.in\/blog\/sell-music\">Musicians don\u2019t really have a choice when it comes to streaming services. Not even the biggest artists in the world are protected from backlash when removing their music from popular streaming platforms.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopify.in\/blog\/sell-music\">It\u2019s important that you stream your work on Spotify and Apple Music, the two largest, most globally available services. Other popular streaming services include Google Play, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music\u2014plus genre-specific streaming services like BeatPort and JunoDownload, both of which cater to music producers and fans.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">3. <a href=\"https:\/\/bandzoogle.com\/blog\/how-to-make-money-with-music-online\"><strong>Monetize your YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bandzoogle.com\/blog\/how-to-make-money-with-music-online\">The first step to monetizing your YouTube channel is to upload all of your music to your channel. From there, you\u2019ll need to set up YouTube monetization on your account.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bandzoogle.com\/blog\/how-to-make-money-with-music-online\">Also, any time music you own is used in a YouTube video, whether on your own channel or someone else\u2019s, you\u2019re entitled to collect your share of the ad revenue generated. A digital distribution company like CD Baby can help ensure that you get all the money that you\u2019re owed.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">4. <a href=\"https:\/\/bandzoogle.com\/blog\/how-to-make-money-with-music-online\"><strong>Teach music lessons online<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bandzoogle.com\/blog\/how-to-make-money-with-music-online\">Over the last few years, many musicians found an extra revenue stream by teaching their instruments online to their fans.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bandzoogle.com\/blog\/how-to-make-money-with-music-online\">Whether through Zoom or recorded video lessons, teaching music lessons can be a great way to generate some additional income. You can even take it a step further and sell video lessons, sheet music, and more using fan subscriptions.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=life.getsuper.droid&amp;hl=en_IN&amp;gl=US\">Mezink-Download now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Make your music available for streaming The vast majority of listening is happening on major streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music. This means that making your songs available on these platforms is essential to reach your current fans, as well as for reaching potential new fans. While streaming revenue is usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[3,170,236,237,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creator-tips","7":"tag-content-creator","8":"tag-live-streaming","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-musician","11":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mez.ink\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}