It depends. If you are talking about busking don't listen to anyone who suggests street performers are poor or says something negative about it. Some people can make good money from just busking. You can think of as a stepping stone

I looked it up, Asia has 4.7 billion people, Africa 1.4 billion, Europe 750m, USA 330m

@Eddie Melendez It's a country compared to continents, but I realize if you only think about the USA, then that's only about 5% of world population

There are people who teach entire courses on this and they'll coach you 1 on 1 until you're pro. If you can't find or afford that then remember the basics: - Properly treated room (you can DIY), bass traps are especially important. This can be done with wood, a staple gun, cotton insulation, and cloth. You'll have to search this up. Obviously don't staple gun your hand by accident, and if you can't DIY you can buy them pre made - Good monitor speakers (you might need big ones or small ones plus a sub if you're in any genre that has low end) - There are tools to further equalize your speakers relative to your room, I forgot what they're called So you need the foundation of it in order to get good at mixing. For those going the artist path it might be best to just do the minimum: put up acoustic curtains and make DIY a recording booth, maybe put up bass traps. You might need to DIY until your career takes off. So for artists it's a question of do you want to deal with getting into the details of mixing. Maybe you just want to do the minimum to record and get others to mix. And you might need to do whatever hustle to get some cash to get decent equipment.

I looked into it: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7336634?hl=en-GB Looks like this is the goal

do you want to the music industry to only be the following two: 1. young men and women chosen for their looks 2. people who come from wealthy or advantaged families who start the kid practicing an instrument at 4 There's talented people from this list but I think this is boring af We don't have this conversation with anything else... Do you expect a 40 or 60 year old to be able to write a better book or movie than a 20 year old?