> Billboard reported that SoundCloud added 45 million tracks over a 12 month period. That works out to around 123,000 new songs every day.

Geez, I know a lot of music is getting made but I didn't think it was at that level.

A lot of that is spam, algorithmically generated music. Even calling it that is generous. Titles like "baby sleep sounds" try to get playtime as mindless background music.

SoundCloud is especially bad with the spam. You'll find tracks there that are typo squats or similar which are just text-to-speech voices advertising a porn or casino site. The conversion rate on that has to be absolutely abysmal, I suspect the person buying this kind of "advertising" is getting scammed themselves.

But either way, the article's point stands, even if 9/10ths of new music on streaming services isn't made in good faith.

Alternatively that's less than a million creators (in a world north of seven billion) putting up a song a week.

Even less when you consider that a good number of sound clound tracks will be Muzak generated and / or cloned variants.

And books, videos, etc

Unless you are established or are very good at marketing then chances are you won't make a penny, but hey, if you don't try..

Just a niggle here - songs have people singing.