Digital Music News: The Most Infamous Music Infographic, Updated for 2012..

I have been given permission from Digital Music News to publish this graphic - it is an updated version of a graphic by Information Is Beautiful from 2010. The sources data is available from the DMN article - 'The Most Infamous Music Infographic, Updated for 2012...'. As you can see from the graphic, for a solo artist to earn the US monthly minimum wage they must sell 1,706 copies of an MP3 on iTunes, 2,320 CDs (major label) or there must be 232,000 streams on Spotify (independents). This presents a very interesting picture of the comparative revenue sources.