I’ve been slacking off getting music ready for release lately, like for the past month and a half. I need to review some of my past recording sessions to make a determination about the likely release candidates.
That lack of progress hasn’t deterred me from doing painting and drawing. Time to devote to using all the supplies I’ve spent all that money on.
I published an article on my other blog about some recent news from Spotify about more IP theft coming from Spotify. Here’s a link to the blog post: https://all-about-music.ghost.io/more-bad-news-from-spotify/
Well, I just got a radio play in Croatia, so I thought I’d update you as to the radio plays across the globe, as reported by SongStats. Here’s part of their report:
As you can see, I’ve got plays on every continent except Antarctica, and Europe appears to be the winner continent-wise with a strong showing from a bunch of stations in Switzerland.
I’ve pretty much decided to withdraw my whole catalog of 100+ songs from Shittify. I had one song removed by Shittify because, they said, it had botted streams detected. This despite major labels are guilty of using bot farms to inflate streams on a regular basis. Shittify provides no evidence of these botted streams, and after much digging, I came up with three playlists that may have been the culprits. But, alas, I tried to follow Shittify’s sketchy instructions to report the playlists but was unable to as the playlists had already been deleted.
So the next step for me, as Shittify seemingly has blacklisted me, is to remove my catalog. As you can see, that’ll be no big deal as my followers have dried up faster than a creekbed in the desert.
The numbers I do get are so pitiful that my streams aren’t monetized, so no loss, as far as I’m concerned.
Here it is August 16 and I had a snippet of a tune playing in my head, I suppose it’s time to do something about it. Try to work out some of the particulars. I have a sequencer part worked out and now I have to figure out what to do with the rest.
I decided to give a promotion company some business when I had a better month than usual with a decent distribution from Distrokid. I chose Apolone for a one month campaign for one of my songs
I decided to give the one month campaign a try although I never used Apolone before. This is the result of an almost completed campaign.
With this as additional support, of just the featured song:
So, 2,840 listeners in 28 days for a really bizarre sub-genre. Is that good? It’s better than I expected. At least I didn’t have to go through the bother of trying to hunt down playlists and then pitch my song to them. And now I have and idea of which playlists to pitch to in the future.
This one’s on Muso.AI, a credits database harvesting app/web site Here’s the link https://all-about-music.ghost.io/muso-ai-a-scam/.
For indie musicians, it doesn’t seem to be a good fit, as IDK what they bring to the table. I mean, if you’ve ever been played by someone trying to cut you out of a musical composition, IDK what Muso.AI is help with a situation like that.
I just dropped a new tune, “Guitar Explorations 250802” on Mirlo.space and am working to put it on Bandcamp. I hooked up a Fender guitar,that’s one of my favorites, to the pedal board shown and then to a Fender Twin Reverb thru the Vibrato section. Recorded on my trusty Zoom H8 and processed on my iPhone using the AUM app.
Anyway, the tune, should you be interested in listening to it, is to be found at https://mirlo.space/jaypeach53/releases and https://jaypeach.bandcamp.com
For new viewers, here’s a site you might want to visit: https://linktr.ee/jaypeach53. It’s got links to my music and other sites that might be of interest.
I keep reading that the way to make money off the music biz nowadays is to put your music on platforms like Mirlo and BandCamp to get fans to purchase your music instead of streaming your music from some DSP for hundreds and hundreds less money. Admittedly, this makes sense other than the market for platforms like Mirlo and BandCamp is minimal compared to the DSPs. After all, I’ve been on BandCamp for almost 5 years and have plays totaling less than one days plays on 5-6 DSPs.
