VivaRoxyMusic.com wrote:
"However, there are many musicians who solely rely on their music income to not only create the music they make for us to absorb and enjoy, music to become the soundtrack to our lives etc. They also make this music to pay the mortgage, feed their children etc. Yes there are people like Elton John. Ed Sheerin, etc etc making millions but there are a huge amount of people just making an ordinary working person's wage from recorded music.....or used to."
J.O'B.
Hipsters,
J.O'B makes a very salient point.
Not so long ago, BBCR4 dedicated a program to asking "Will the professional musician exist in 10 years time ?"
W2 can't remember all of the participants but one was Jarvis Cocker.
The conclusion was yes but the full time workforce would decrease by at least 70% compared with today (and this was pre-COVID which undoubtedly puts even more pressure on the performing arts) and that the vast, vast majority of professionals will have to find another main income stream.
A sad conclusion but Windswept fears it to be an accurate one.
Salutations,
W2