The Future of Music Coalition has released data from its Artist Revenue Streams research project, where financial case studies drawing from 4-12 years of accounting data provide information about how musicians are making a living today. These five case studies provide a financial profile of different types of full-time musicians. Each case study graphs and explains the musician-based sources of income over time, and the results tell a lot about the state of today’s music industry.

The case studies reflect the working lives and income streams of five different types of full-time musicians: […]