Members TheSandwich Posted October 14, 2003 Members Share Posted October 14, 2003 what are some ways to increase my plays? any advice would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pewing33ny Posted October 15, 2003 Members Share Posted October 15, 2003 advertise your band to station owners in your genre...i had a station and i got a few emails asking to take a listen and i did. most of the music wasn't that good but i think out of the 10 bands that asked i put 2-3 songs from one band on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Phantasm Posted October 15, 2003 Members Share Posted October 15, 2003 We have over 80,000 plays last time I looked. We started out by posting on a lot of message boards asking people to check the music out. We had mixed success with it. We then started asking websites to review our CD, and some of them obliged. We were very grateful for that. Once a few reviews were out and people listened, the word of mouth has generated a lot of sales and traffic. We also got a lot of plays once we started to chart high. We were #1 in Louisiana for a while, I think we're still pretty up there, and we got added to a lot of stations then. Another tactic we used was to watch which songs would chart and put them first on our page. That way people were hearing what everyone seemed to percieve as the best song first, then that would lead them to go down the page and listen to the others. One of the most important things too is song quality. I sometimes listen to 100-500 bands in a single sitting on mp3.com trying to find something I like. Many of the bands have either unlistenable recordings or the vocals are just horribly recorded/mixed. It's so hard to get the listening public to understand that something is a "demo" so we never post "demos." If you can put high quality tracks out there and the songs are solid, there are people looking for them and they will tell absoloutely everyone once they do find them. Things tend to snowball once they get started, it's just getting things started. Good Luck! P.S. Here's our mp3 page: http://www.mp3.com/shakespeareinhell I'll probably check yours out tonight, I can't stream audio at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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