Russ may get a lot of criticism, but he's carved out an incredibly impressive career as an independent artist.

On Monday, the New Jersey rhymer showed how much he's earned in just one week from TuneCore, a digital distribution company. Russ said that he wanted to share his earnings to show others artists that they don't need record labels to do well.

some weekly checks on tunecore..inspo purposes only
 
artists : own your music and stop letting these labels take 15% distribution fees for pressing an upload button pic.twitter.com/eQHRRtXLdO

— RUSS (@russdiemon) November 9, 2020

Are you surprised that Russ can earn over 100K on his musical catalog in just one week?