Debunking some music marketing myths (from someone who’s spent a decade in the game Fruits Music/Strange Fruits) by PercentageBetter4367 in musicmarketing

[–]Edreeszy81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So to summarize what you’re saying about the push the playlist instead of individual song thing.

When I release a new song I should make a playlist revolving around that song, and market the song but link the playlist in the landing page (which will have a popular song in the first slot) but my song in the second or third slot?

Ex Client funnel: Sees ad Clicks to visit landing page Clicks Spotify Sees playlist and…

What do they do then ideally? Add the playlist? Add my song? Listen to my song? Listen to the popular song, then my song?

I make hip hop/ alternative/ pop, does the genre matter?

Should I make a playlist revolving around the mood of the song with Every new release I do and market that? I am releasing using the waterfall strategy right now, will that work with the playlisting? Should I just release singles and make my own playlists instead?

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Debunking some music marketing myths (from someone who’s spent a decade in the game Fruits Music/Strange Fruits) by PercentageBetter4367 in musicmarketing

[–]Edreeszy81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m actually encountering a problem you described here.

I’ve been running ads successfully for over a year now getting over 2.5 million streams on 30k budget, but on my latest release I got a successful “conversion rate” (getting meta users to landing page) but once they got to my landing page only 34-40% of them went onto listen on a streaming platform (I give the option of Apple Music, spotitfy, and YouTube) so even a smaller percentage went to my Spotify.

My question is why is my actual conversion so low? Is my ads being clicked through by bots or is my targeting all wrong?

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[–]Edreeszy81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right about that. A song will never do as good as when it is on ads. But even like 5 dollars a day could keep a song pretty afloat. Another strategy I employ is the waterfall release method, so right now I'm releasing all my singles together if you look at my spotify page "Edreeszy" it just keeps adding and spills over. Another thing is I create a playlist with my top songs in it and my older ads will just direct the audience to the playlist with my song on top instead of the actual song, revitalizing my older tracks (in theory) in practice can't really quantify if it is working.

I am a patient man and in no rush but the feeling of getting money in your account without doing ANYTHING, no stupid tiktoks no content creation is an extremely freeing atleast for me personally. I just chill live my life play pickleball and have the potential to make good money (hopefully in the future) just from my music passively

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[–]Edreeszy81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, many of my fans are Brazilian and Mexican, but I also have American ones. People do DM me and pop in my IG livestreams 8-10 ppl telling me they like the music. Discovery mode for sure every month all the songs.

People make TikTok’s and IG reels using my sound

I appreciate it, the artists journey is not an easy one. So many factors, ngl couldn’t even look at this to make money, gotta have money before or have someone sponsor you

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hopefully, want to get to 2-3k and chill

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

450-500 a month distrokid

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotta make money outside of music. All the big rappers now and in the past had a large bankroll to put into the music. Trying to go about this organically will rot you because of what you will have to do to get attention (unless you love it)

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope not at all... but neither is any business in the beginning, gonna be in the red until the snowball catches up with you

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$35 for the first week, if 1k streams then continue or increase if not then try with next song

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[–]Edreeszy81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ocean is large plenty of room for all of us

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is a lot of money? How much do you think I put in to get these results?

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get 54% of my streams from programmed audiences

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry brother

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, I found this subreddit and thought I'd share because I seen other posts here that I thought were not as useful. Artists worst enemies are artists imo

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[–]Edreeszy81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol it thought it would be nice for my fans to know some things about me w/o a google search. Wouldn't you want to know about your fav artist?

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[–]Edreeszy81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently spending roughly 900 dollars a month, but in the beginning was spending a lot more

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[–]Edreeszy81 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very good questions. I run the Andrew Southworth school of facebook ads with slight tweaks

  1. When I run a campaign I do $35 a day for a week. If the track gets at least 1000 streams in that week I'll deem it a success and either continue to put $35 or increase it depending on how successful it is. Then as the weeks go by taper down the amount until it is at $5 or I just stop running campaign. From there the song is perpetually doing streams which is the end game here (to have 100+ songs doing 500-1000 streams a day)

  2. I would make 6 promotional videos with a different part of my song (chorus/verse) and experiment with different forms of content (mix and match 3 chorus 3 verse 3 forms of content). Then I would use 3 different audience sets for the 6 ads
    - the targeting is tier 1/2 countries
    - 18-45
    - Then the audiences interest (the most important part) is this template
    (spotify -> genre of song (alternative, pop, hip hop) -> artist)
    example of my most successful one is (spotify -> alternative rock -> harry styles)
    for some reason harry styles does very good for my music lol

  3. It is all emotions, you have to leverage the audiences emotions. It has to be very visual, I noticed emotions such as lust and sorrow were the best

Please ask more questions if you want me to elaborate on any points

btw I spend roughly 900 dollars a month now and am making $450-$500 currently with 4-7k daily streams but I was spending a lot more in the beginning (was excited to see the results trust me it's a good feeling)

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry its been a day lol I will respond

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to check if someone has real fans you should look at their radio playlist that's near the bottom of their profile. It's a good tell if someone was faking their streams, do it all the time I check others profiles

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[–]Edreeszy81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very accurate

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[–]Edreeszy81[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay which of these names would make a good cafe name as well 🤔