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I never comment on videos, but I really felt inclined to. I've been watching and sending your videos to my music buddies. Just wanted to say that your content is super useful, and the information is very high quality. I hope you continue. My mind continues to be blown by the fact that you don't have a huge following yet. The view counts are absurdly low for how good your channel is
"in that atleast toilet paper makes us feel something" - shots fired, i cracked up hah really liked the video! question: how would you deal with being a low output band? for example if the style of music you're in does not lend itself to ad hoc writing, so getting songs really done takes a long time, especially if more than one person is involved. Look at other content formats / ideas instead of music to keep the momentum going?
Yeah this is tough now since usually it’s be touring and playing shows. I look at a band like Health that does all sorts of small things to stay active and on top of mind. I think it may be about concentrating the sporadic output to a smaller span of time like 8 months off and then 6 months of going very hard?
Covers are such a weird minefield. If you do too many it’s tends to be a hole you can dig out of 99% of the time. I think that’s a balance that really needs to be walked carefully
Question for you Jesse. What is your advice for somebody who has never released their first song on Spotify to release a cover? Good or bad idea for getting through that initial three to four song stage? And when I say a cover song I mean a cover song that totally matches up with the genre that the artist is writing in their original works. And doing all of the sustained promotion that you speak of with that cover song and then continuing with the originals. Thoughts?
For debut singles is it even worth uploading a song to distribution platforms far in advance like you would for every other single? If you can access spotify for artists at an expedited rate (pre release) through your distributer, does that potentially change the answer?
You rule man! Thank you for all the very helpful videos. I have a quick question if yr game - I've released music under my own name (Mike Sempert) and had some success with playlists a few years back. Since then, I've been less active in promoting myself (won't bore with excuses as to why). I now have a new album which I'm releasing under a different moniker, Volcanic Legacy. VL has a meager 17 monthly listeners compared to Mike Sempert's 2000+ (also humble haha) , but the musical identity fits better with this sound. Do you think I should release singles as "featuring Mike Sempert" to stay in people's release radar etc? Thanks in advance Jesse!
Serious question, as far as rereleasing a song with a new mix, is it possible to keep the streams from the old version onto the new version and just replace the audio? Or does it have to be a new version entirely?
I'm in a somewhat established band (13k followers on spotify) with an album ready, and wondering - how much time should we put in between singles to make the most of them?
So I made a video on how I do it watch these two th-cam.com/video/BLRAVkq8yDA/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/m5DuoNIPaGc/w-d-xo.html Happy to answer any other questions you may have just started a fresh comment thread so it will notify me
@@Musformation thanks so much! been at the 50-80k monthly listeners plateau for a looonngg time and hoping the next release cycle bumps us out of it :)
hey man! Really loving these videos. If I want to put out a single a week (Russ method) and I have say 6 months worth of this, will they cannibalize each other? I'm starting from around 1k fans. thanks!
what if i dont have fans? im releasing single each month but still only 55 subs on yt and 124 followers on spotify + almost no traffic on my soundcloud
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I never comment on videos, but I really felt inclined to. I've been watching and sending your videos to my music buddies. Just wanted to say that your content is super useful, and the information is very high quality. I hope you continue. My mind continues to be blown by the fact that you don't have a huge following yet. The view counts are absurdly low for how good your channel is
Hey chad! I really appreciate that and you helping to fix that. Lemme know if you ever have questions if your own I am always happy to help.
I second that, very useful info
Very interesting. I am releasing singles monthly. Never thought about this ordering - it makes total sense.
I come back to these old ones, just what I needed, just now 🙌🔊🎶💥
Hell yeah brother thanks a lot for this!
Speaking my language with the hell yeah
Easily one of the top music marketing channels. Thank you!
Much appreciated! 😎
I watch your videos twice
Hell yeah
"in that atleast toilet paper makes us feel something" - shots fired, i cracked up hah
really liked the video!
question: how would you deal with being a low output band? for example if the style of music you're in does not lend itself to ad hoc writing, so getting songs really done takes a long time, especially if more than one person is involved. Look at other content formats / ideas instead of music to keep the momentum going?
Yeah this is tough now since usually it’s be touring and playing shows. I look at a band like Health that does all sorts of small things to stay active and on top of mind. I think it may be about concentrating the sporadic output to a smaller span of time like 8 months off and then 6 months of going very hard?
Bro you're the best!!!!!!
Great great stuff. I have a ep in production and this changed my plans a bit. For the better tho. Subscribed. Thanks for the insight.
I just found your channel and am extremely impressed with the information. Your info is comprehensive and it goes deep. I'm subscribed man.
Hell yeah appreciate that
Yes re-releases. Planning on it. As I get better with producing it will make sense to remix and remaster old songs with new tools and abilities.
There’s a ton of great talking points in here. I’m curious to see if you’d recommend artists with
Covers are such a weird minefield. If you do too many it’s tends to be a hole you can dig out of 99% of the time. I think that’s a balance that really needs to be walked carefully
Musformation definitely. Thanks for the reply :)
Question for you Jesse. What is your advice for somebody who has never released their first song on Spotify to release a cover? Good or bad idea for getting through that initial three to four song stage? And when I say a cover song I mean a cover song that totally matches up with the genre that the artist is writing in their original works. And doing all of the sustained promotion that you speak of with that cover song and then continuing with the originals. Thoughts?
For debut singles is it even worth uploading a song to distribution platforms far in advance like you would for every other single? If you can access spotify for artists at an expedited rate (pre release) through your distributer, does that potentially change the answer?
A smart strategy is upload a filler track put it up , get a profile then pull it if youndont want the world to hear it
You rule man! Thank you for all the very helpful videos. I have a quick question if yr game - I've released music under my own name (Mike Sempert) and had some success with playlists a few years back. Since then, I've been less active in promoting myself (won't bore with excuses as to why). I now have a new album which I'm releasing under a different moniker, Volcanic Legacy. VL has a meager 17 monthly listeners compared to Mike Sempert's 2000+ (also humble haha) , but the musical identity fits better with this sound. Do you think I should release singles as "featuring Mike Sempert" to stay in people's release radar etc? Thanks in advance Jesse!
Yep you can probably get sone crossover through Spotify’s algo doing that
@@Musformation Thanks for the reply man!
@4:09 - released as a 'Thud' ? Is this some industry acronym I can't work out or do you just mean as in it dropped with a bang?
haha your content is great..
Really appreciate that
Serious question, as far as rereleasing a song with a new mix, is it possible to keep the streams from the old version onto the new version and just replace the audio? Or does it have to be a new version entirely?
Apparently if you reup load with the same upload time and isrc code you can BUT a lot of distributors don’t offer this
@@Musformation woww thank you 🙏🙏🙏 Does Distrokid?
I'm in a somewhat established band (13k followers on spotify) with an album ready, and wondering - how much time should we put in between singles to make the most of them?
So I made a video on how I do it watch these two
th-cam.com/video/BLRAVkq8yDA/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/m5DuoNIPaGc/w-d-xo.html
Happy to answer any other questions you may have just started a fresh comment thread so it will notify me
@@Musformation thanks so much! been at the 50-80k monthly listeners plateau for a looonngg time and hoping the next release cycle bumps us out of it :)
Thanks for the help your videos are some of the best content on YT🙌🏽 my Spotify is Zavon I’m gonna apply this one this year
hey man! Really loving these videos. If I want to put out a single a week (Russ method) and I have say 6 months worth of this, will they cannibalize each other? I'm starting from around 1k fans. thanks!
I have a whole video on the Russ method that explains my thoughts on this
what if i dont have fans? im releasing single each month but still only 55 subs on yt and 124 followers on spotify + almost no traffic on my soundcloud
Go to my channel page and watch the guide on how to get your music noticed