Let’s talk about the real foundational issues, shall we?
If you’re a creative or executive in this space and you still read?
This one is for you:
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To my DJs, how do you dig in the crates? How do you listen to curate your catalogue?
Right now, I use radio garden and 1001 track lists. Put me on to some new stuff.
Emerging artistes navigating this industry like me, I don't have any recipe for success to give you other than to tell you the truth..my experiences, just 2 months ago i was at 9k listeners on Spotify, few weeks before that it was 4k plus...
I dropped a 3 song EP project independently over a month ago and presently there are over a hundred thousand people on that platform alone, we are heading 600k streams in few..with all humility i believe i can atleast share some truth on the power of shutting the distraction and noise out and focusing on the people that actually care about your craft no matter how small they are, when i make a post the first 100 people that likes and share it are my small community, and they do so because we connect on a personal level, majority of the strangers that discovers my music afterwards through my posts do so because they see it's already getting traction by my immediate community so they wait a lil to listen and see why...and if the music is good they key in...
Don't underestimate your small community...they matter🌱