Written: 16.12.2020
In September 2020 a report was released by MIDIA and amuse that covers what independent artists have been doing during throughout the pandemic regarding their musical careers and presented a lot of ‘not-seen-before data’ and was overall very insightful to read. So, I thought I’d share this with you all!
I wanted to focus on one area of this report; ‘COVID-19 and lockdown-what impact has been felt among artists.’
They undertook an artist survey and the concluding results show:
68.3% of artists have spend their time during lockdown creating and writing music.
57% of artists created more content on their social media.
46% of artists have released new music.
36% of artists are working on collaborative music.
more artists spent time learning the production side of music (defiantly!)
The report touched upon the live industry and live streaming:
live performance income is down by 52% for many artists.
before the pandemic 18% of artists income stream came from live gigs.
The most interesting point the report made was that most artists were focusing on the production of their music to suit streaming formats.
In conclusion, I have only briefly outlined the premise of this report and I feel as though it is important to read the full report as they do include topics such as, the economics of music streaming and artists funding etc.
Throughout this report you can clearly see that the pandemic has allowed time for creativity to develop and flourish however, delivering this creativity to one’s audience has been hindered by many obstacles.
what are your thoughts? Please leave them below!
