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Really liked the article and am curious what would happen with some of these numbers if you 10x the budget... Based on the effort required even after submittin

Really liked the article and am curious what would happen with some of these numbers if you 10x the budget... Based on the effort required even after submitting and getting approved on some of these sites (I also didn't know these sites even existed! very cool to learn about that), the author had to do some sifting and understanding of what they were getting into (ex. getting into a playlist of 500 songs and being #500 seems like crap). Sounds like investing more and getting on more lists might help with your odds of getting good placement/good playlists but ultimately requires a linear scale of time invested. It also seems like the author got exposure to labels for what I think feels like a low price (especially if you aren't well connected in the industry already).

hamburglar 6y ago
I think it’s also important to keep in mind that the results you get are probably going to be highly influenced by whether or not people actually like your music. We really have no way to control for that in these experiments. I obviously can’t just fart into a microphone and promote it on these platforms and conclude that they don’t work.
- darkwizard42 6y ago
  I did get that especially given how the author fared in some of the Hot or Not and label outreach pieces. At the end of the day, crappy music ain't gonna sell no matter how much you pay for streams. A hit will rise to the top and it seems like it is the biggest factor in if influencers/playlist makers will pick it up!