Hi, my name is Yaroslav, you can call me Yaro. 👋
I started working in the music business with my brother in 2020 with a starting capital of -$15k because of our previous dropshipping business.
We had no expertise in this field but were willing to do what we loved. The problem was that the music business was prolonged, some reports you could wait more than a year. It took us years to understand how to properly work with music and, more importantly, collect all the money it generates.
We split our responsibilities from the beginning: I was in charge of the internet and he was in charge of music.
Today we run a successful music label lesfreemusic with a managed catalog of 1,500 tracks. Our music is used millions of times in user-generated videos.
Now, we decided to share our experience with other musicians, who are struggling to make money with their music not only to explain how can make money but to allow them to add flexibility to their lives, while not making mistakes we made along the way. It must save a minimum of a year or two.
We are loving what we are doing.
And we've made more in the past 2 years than we would have made 50 years of working as a "normal" session musician.
The decision to go full in music was the best decision we have ever made.