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    Home » NFT News » Unsigned Artists Make More Money With Music NFTs Than Spotify

    Unsigned Artists Make More Money With Music NFTs Than Spotify

    By Ming HooiMarch 19, 2022Updated:February 2, 20232 Mins Read

    A significant amount of unsigned artists have actually leveraged music NFTs to sustain on their own terms. What if one day, every music artist can make a living without depending on major record labels?

    Iman Europe, a singer-songwriter who hits success with music NFT.
    Iman Europe is an independent singer-songwriter who finds success with music NFT.

    Unsigned Artists are earning more with music NFTs

    Take Iman Europe for example, an unsigned singer-songwriter from L.A., California who made 22.2 ETH (almost $60,000) by selling 5 singles and a music video as NFTs according to a recent article from Bloomberg. In comparison, she only made roughly $300 a month from streaming on multiple platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.

    To be clear, Iman already has 4 million listeners across these platforms. However, streaming platforms mostly distribute huge cuts of the revenue back to record labels and distributors. Only a small percentage goes to independent artists. Additionally, according to FreeYourMusic, it takes over 200,000 streams for an artist to make $1000 in Spotify. If this trend continues, more independent artists will embrace music NFT for sure.

    In fact, with NFT technology, artists can also easily bypass middlemen in the music industry for funding. This is successfully demonstrated by Daniel Allan, who crowdfunded the costs to making his EP, Overstimulated, back in Oct 2021. He raised a total of 50 ETH (about $140,000 at the time) through Mirror.xyz. In exchange, backers get to enjoy 50% of Overstimulated’s master royalties.

    Are music NFTs the way forward? 

    For now, it seems so. Delphi Digital recently reported that artists’ popularity on Spotify doesn’t really affect NFT sales on Catalog. From the chart below, sales tend to revolve around 1 ETH regardless of artists’ Spotify streams. This shows that collectors are willing to support less-established artists in Web 3.0.

    NFT prices aren't highly correlated with Spotify streams.
    NFT prices aren’t highly correlated with Spotify streams. Source: Delphi Digital.

    Given that music NFTs have transformed the lives of independent artists, it is just a matter of time before they reach mass adoption. To learn more about quality indie artists and their works, you can always start with marketplaces such as Sound, Royal, Decent, and Catalog. Or better still, search for any upcoming music NFT projects with our very own NFT Calendar!

     


    All investment/financial opinions expressed by NFTevening.com are not recommendations.

    This article is educational material.

    As always, make your own research prior to making any kind of investment.

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    Ming Hooi

    Ming Hooi is a writer based in Malaysia. She is a fan of GameFi and loves keeping herself updated on the latest developments of crypto, GameFi, NFT, and Web 3.0 in general.

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