This topic is still up... so... might as well clarify.
In order to make decent money in this kind of scene, you need to be performing on the weekends as an artist -- that's where your consistent income is from. I knew this years ago, which is why I made it a point to travel to Europe, to meet people, to show them I'm "real".
Nobody knew I had problems with this, because quite frankly I made it my business to never "brag" or talk finances, but I will now shed some light on to the subject. I'm saying this now not in a "poor me/pity me", but just to educate you guys...
In the first few years of doing music, I made almost nothing. Almost nobody wanted to pay a vocalist, so I did a lot of work for free, or I would maybe get 100 euros from it. I made, in 4 years, approximately 1200 euros total. Last year was the first year I began to see something more consistent -- and even still, I only saw a total of $1492 for that entire year (sorry for the conversion, I had to check my bank & tax statement and everything is in dollar).
As a vocalist, I don't make "millions of dollars" or anything like this... most of last year, I could make between 150 euros to 250 euros per track.
To have an income I'd be (initially) satisfied/comfortable with, I'd need to charge 300 euros and do 6 tracks per month. Obviously, that's the best way to exhaust the scene and put yourself out of business. People were already complaining about my voice being in only 4 or 5 tracks for the whole year -- imagine 72 tracks with my voice in it, and imagine how the quality would suffer. It's not fair to you guys, and not fair to myself.
To put this in perspective... In the first 3 days of webcamming, I made $810. After another couple hours of work on another website, I made a total of $169. In less than 1 week of showing my tits/ass/pussy/whatever, I've made almost as much as I have in an entire year of making music.
Hopefully you guys understand that this isn't a subject of me going "Oh! I'm only making 50,000 euros a year and not 50,001 euros!! Boohoo!!" -- it's me literally going "I can make more working at a Chinese sweat shop".
As I said... I held out for this long, because I had hopes it would get better and because I really just loved what I was doing.
However, loving what you do doesn't necessarily pay the bills or make up for the insufferable bullshit of some others.