I don't know what the solution is for artists
Yes, support live music, but even that, the bands are getting much less of a cut
I do think that there needs to be a rule that they get 100% of a cut of the merch sales...
Streaming music is so convenient, that people are not actually supporting artists at all
There used to be a time when people would buy $200-500 of music over the course of a year (live shows/physical media)
because that was really the only way to consume music for decades
Now they spend about $50 or less a year, where the actual artists they love get about $1 of that
and as she stated, if they do go to a live show, it's an arena show and they spend $200-400 on just one night
Only thing I think artists can do is more subscription/pateron type things
but most people are not going to do that, but if you can get 10-20k fans across the world to do that...well then you can probably eak out a living
but even I don't do that
I do buy vinyl / shirts and see them when ever they come to town, but I'm an outlier and not exactly putting food on the table
the above costs me probably $100-200 per artist and they probably only get $10-25 of that spend
