In this music industry a lot of independent artists have to grind hard and sometimes they are asked to do shows without getting paid. When you are building your brand and trying to get noticed this is something that you have to do. However if you handle your business correctly everything you do you can get paid for it even doing shows where you are asked to perform for free. As an independent artist myself I have always gotten paid for my performances even if the promoter did

Today it’s all about streaming. We went from 8 tracks to cassette tapes to CDs to now streaming. However everyone seems to brag about getting a certain amount of streams because it makes them look like they are winning in the music industry. They are also very happy with the amount of dollars that they receive. But the truth of the matter is they are actually losing a lot of money by only focusing on streaming sites. Think about it how many streams do you have to get before