Singer Lera Yaskevich revealed how much she earns monthly from music on streaming platforms
The sum is symbolic, but after the artist parted ways with her manager, she no longer has to give away half of her income.
Lera Yaskevich. Photo from her Instagram
In her Instagram, Lera Yaskevich shared that for March and partly April, she earned $25 from her music on streaming platforms — and she's happy about it.
— Someone might say that this is very little. I think that's true. But on the other hand, it's already $25. Not $5, not a few cents. Considering that music really collects little money, considering that I currently have very few listens — 2400 per month on Spotify.
Lera says: if $25 keeps trickling in every month, by the end of the year, she might manage to save up for something. For comparison, before the conflict with her manager, due to which the singer deleted all her tracks from music platforms, Lera received up to 300 euros per month from streaming services.
The artist currently has 14 songs in her library. And she hopes that someday she will be able to return to that previous amount — but doesn't know how long it will take.
— But the mere presence of at least some money here gives me hope. Because every time I see that my sewing videos get more views, I think: "Well, that's it, if music videos don't get views, it means no one will listen to music and I won't be able to live off it, so I need to find myself in something else." Today hope appeared.
It's worth reminding that in January, Lera Yaskevich told fans that after February 16, her songs would no longer be available on all music platforms — she would delete them herself. The reason was a conflict between the singer and her ex-manager and former best friend Hanna Navitskaya.
Lera Yaskevich met Hanna Navitskaya when she was 17 years old. Navitskaya helped Yaskevich enroll in the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, took her to the Ukrainian X-Factor, managed her, and was her best friend — the girls even rented an apartment together.
Lera's tracks were registered with the National Center for Intellectual Property, and for all earnings to be split 50/50 between the artist and the manager, Hanna was listed as the author in all songs, even where she was not actually the author.
The friendship and collaboration lasted for 10 years, after which it fractured — Navitskaya is now involved in a new project in Belarus, the band "Barysauski Trakt," while Yaskevich lives in forced emigration in Poland.
An indignant Hanna Navitskaya later told her truth. She says that even before the "Lera Yaskevich" project started bringing stable income, she invested over $20,000 of her own funds into its promotion.