5 Ways to Make Money as a Musician
Either you are making money full time or part time, it’s a good thing to make money from your craft. As an Independent Music Artists or Label, figuring out how to make money from your Songs can be a daunting task especially when you are doing this on a Moderate budget.
There are couples of ways you can make money from your music as an indie music artist or label even from Nigeria. The Internet is a Big and gigantic network that has changed the way the music business is being run. It will be better you start your music promotion journey online in order to get the best out of your music marketing.
Making money from music isn’t easy, but it’s not impossible. By setting up diversified, automated revenue streams, musicians in 2020 are able to reduce the risk and take a chance on their dream career.
How do you make money as a musician in Nigeria
- Make money from streaming royalties
- Make money Blogging
- Sell Music merchandise online
- Collaborate with other Brands
- Sell Samples and Instrumentals
We will explain briefly how you can use all the strategies above to make money for your music. Let’s get started.
Make Money from Streaming Royalties
This is the obvious one. If you are in the music industry for sometimes now, you will know what streaming platforms are and how you can leverage them to make money for your musical career. You can distribute your songs to all digital streaming platforms and share the link with your friends, family and current fans to listen or download your songs. You can upload your music to Apple Music, Instagram, Spotify, Boomplay, Amazon and so on
Smen Music Distribution can help you get your music to all the Digital Streaming Platforms Worldwide, including all the social media Platforms.
Make Money Blogging
This is a golden opportunity for you to build online community for your musical brand. The new music industry rides on the Niche community rather than the mainstream media. If you want to make money from your music, you need to build fanbase and fanbase is in the niche in the new music industry. If you are serious with your music career, you need a website to showcase your stuffs online. You can add blog to your website and start engaging on a more personal level with your fans.
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Sell Music merchandise online
One of the way to make money with your music online is through music merchandising. Since the era of music digitization began, artist in the west had rely on touring and merchandising. Not only can you sell music merch on tour but also online. You can sell your Music Merch on Smen Music Shoplife Network
Collaborate with other Brands
This is very lucrative as we are in the social media era. Instagram is launching their Creator’s Partnership Marketplace. It’s a place you can choose a Creative business and partner with them and earn money as a creator. As a musician in this era, you need to think yourself more as a Creator than a music artist. We make it easy to collaborate with Creative businesses in Nigeria and Across Africa. Check out Smen Music & Brands
Sell Samples and Instrumentals
If you are a music producer, you can produce beat and samples and sell them online to musicians and creative businesses. YouTubers for example needs music to run a good show, you can connect to a marketplace that will give you access to YouTubers for instance. You can also sell your beat to other musicians and get paid.
These are some of the ways you can sell your music online and make money. You can suggest some other avenues to make money with your music that are not listed here.
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