Singer Lera Yaskevich revealed how much she earns per month from music on streaming platforms

Lera Yaskevich. Photo from her Instagram

Lera Yaskevich revealed on her Instagram that for March and partly April, she earned $25 from her creative work on streaming platforms — and she's happy about it.

— Someone will 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 earns 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, maybe she'll 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.

Currently, the artist has 14 songs in her library. And she hopes that someday she will be able to return to that previous amount — but she doesn't know how long it will take.

— But the 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.

Recall 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 at 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 of all songs, even where she was not, in fact, the author.

The friendship and cooperation lasted for 10 years, after which it fractured — Navitskaya is engaged in a new project in Belarus, the band "Barysauski Trakt," while Yaskevich lives in forced emigration in Poland.

An indignant Hanna Navitskaya then told her truth. She says that even before the "Lera Yaskevich" project began to bring stable income, she invested over $20,000 of her own funds into its promotion.

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