There so many reasons music business is frustrating, but I will point out to six facts that makes it hard financially and psychologically to do music business:
- The business you’re in is an attention-based business, and until you get people’s attention, your music does not offer a service neither is it a product. This means you won’t make money, but this does not mean your daily bills will slow down.
- You’re in business that the audience did not ask you to entertain them, you chose to be an entertainer. This means, you could be performing with all your energy, and no one is applauding your effort.
- You’re in a business in which most of the services you get do not have receipt and there’s hardly a way to verify professionals; hence you can be walking into a scam.
- You’re in a business that is verified by mood (which fluctuates at will), this means the most trending song/artiste might necessarily not be the best song/artiste by standard.
- You’re in a business that rippers capitalize on your ignorance. They circle you like vultures, waiting for when to strike.
- Music business is the sort that doesn’t guarantee you will get paid anytime soon because it offers attention and not money at first; it’s the attention you convert to money eventually.
Now imagine doing a business that you are spending your hard-earned money on, staying late in the night to make the best music you can offer without an assurance of recouping your money any time soon, yet audience can tell you your song is trash, or you see someone who isn’t half as solid as you are getting more accolades than you. That will be frustrating, but if you learn not to give up, it is always worth the stress when you eventually blow up.