Jay Peach Productions

Soundcloud displays the general industry trend of enshittification. Back years ago, Soundcloud was one of the places where non-name artists and music hobbyists could display their wares. Later, Soundcloud came up with the idea that they could extract money from the artists that create their product. The idea was, you (the artist) pay us to store your music, and in turn, we’ll promote your music to our subscribers. We’ll also allow you unlimited upload space. And we’ll monetize your plays.

Well, in the beginning that worked. Music I uploaded 6 years ago would get an immediate spike of 300-500 plays. But soon, that number started to drop until the play spike was less than 100 plays. And there was a payola scheme in there because as soon as I terminated my Artist Pro account because they never paid me a dime for my monetized songs and plays were getting less and less, plays got even lower.

Now, I don’t even advertise that Soundcloud is a platform with my music, same as Shittify, the champion of enshittification.

But still no releases. Lately, as in the past few months,the musical urges have solely directed towards creating music, either whole tunes, or pieces I might be able to put together into a song.

Gotta go back into the vault of at least the pat several months to see if there’s enough material for an album. Unlike in the past, releasing singles doesn’t seem to be the way it’s done in the platforms I’m releasing to now. Platforms like Mirlo.space and jam.coop.

So until I can put on my producer and engineer hats on, they’ll be no progress.

I ‘ve been on it a while, and sometimes there’s an interesting exchange. Here’s the site: https://the.socialmusic.network/. It’s a relatively new site and it started out slow, but the subscribers have made it a place that I check out a couple of times a month. There’s a fairly large European component, if that means anything, so not a US bias, for sure.

Here’s a mostly finished painting that I previewed as a work in progress a while back. Still trying to get used to working in acrylic paint, as my preferred medium is oil paint.

Anyway, here it is:

The photo here is taken at night under incandescent lighting. The colors seem to be realistic and the glare is sort of useful, as it shows the characteristic shine of acrylic. The painting is approximately 16×20 inches, metric of course, since the canvas on cardboard is from Temu, although from a stateside shipper.

I also paint on real canvas, mostly on commission, as expenses are higher.

More paintings and other work forthcoming.

Speaking of stats, here’s some stats from Jetpack for this web site. Lots of countries have checked in, which gives me hope that running this web site isn’t a total waste of time.

Here’s hoping for better results in the next twelve months.

Here’s some links for you to peruse:

https://linktr.ee/jaypeach53 – this site has links mostly to streaming sites, although there are sites like Bandcamp and Mirlo where you can listen to some of my catalog. Maybe even purchase some music.

Here’s direct links to the abovementioned sites:

https://mirlo.space/jaypeach53/releases.  

https://jaypeach.bandcamp.com 

I’ve been getting more plays in more regions on Apple Music lately. Here’s a sample from Apple Music of my reach. The stats from Apple Music supposedly got an upgrade, something I don’t see.

As you can see, I’m now getting listens in 7 countries, so Apple’s been successful in extending their reach outside the US.

And this is a sample of Apple stats for a single release:

Small progress, but progress just the same. And I guess the stats from Apple have improved slightly.