I think most streaming sites don't pay artists very well. My album has earned like 0.50c lol!

TBF it's not the most easy listening music. I have it up on wavlake and the community has been kind enough to zap about 60k sats.

I hold a different view to most musicians which is that the music needs to be free, and you try to make money in other ways like playing concerts and selling merch.