Soundcloud where is my mind

That way, you can build a list to send your music to next time you have something to release! Symphonic Distribution compiled a list of the best email marketing platforms for musicians , so make sure to give that a read. This is one of the most useful tools on SoundCloud and is an effective way to garner the force of multiple accounts in a simple, automated way. In essence, a repost chain is simply a group of people who automatically repost a track, each at a timed interval, to maximise exposure.

A service like SCPlanner allows you to do this effortlessly. Just get a few music buddies in a chain and one person submits new tracks to the chain. As each of you gains followers, you multiply the reach each time.

Does it fit with your brand, or will it annoy your followers? The best way to do that is metadata. Tell Soundcloud what your music is, and give it the best chance on the platform. Relevant metadata goes beyond the platform into other services like Google, meaning your music will come up in search results too. Pretty neat. For a few thousand extra plays in the short term, you can damage your career, risk your account getting shut down, or simply lose the trust of your true fans.

The same can be said for likes and followers, and other platforms too. You can grab it free below:. Want more promotion and marketing tips? Check out 15 more here. Learn how to master the fundamentals of electronic music production with the best roadmap for new producers.

Free Masterclass. Aden Russell September 14, Download for free. Spotify is a much more popular option these days for listening to music, and it allows you to reach a wider audience. New to music promotion? I personally use a software called Notion has database functionality to track YouTube channels, Soundcloud pages, labels and more.

ToneDen offers free download gates that you can use to gather emails. You can tell when the repost chain kicked in on my latest track. Soundcloud likes this because it knows who to show the track to. Aden Russell. With 10 years of music production experience and some marketing chops, I head up the content here at EDMProd. I also make music under Artsea. Jonson is aware that not long ago, his story would have been virtually impossible. But while the means may have changed, he says the end goal is the same for young musicians; they just want to find an audience.

Read excerpts from the interview below or play the audio at the top this page. How old were you when you first released [your music] onto the Internet? I think I just deleted the track. They are completely gone. But yeah, I think I was about JW: What was the initial reaction? GJ: Initially, there was no reaction whatsoever.

It took me probably four or so years to start getting any type of traction online. JW: By the time you were 16 or 17, your songs were getting millions of listeners. Some of them are up into the tens of millions at this point. Were you surprised by that?

GJ: I was. I still am, to be honest. I think in my mind, ever since I was a kid, I only had one plan and it was to be a musician. Does that screw with your head? It does kind of mess with my head when I realized that a large portion of my initial success was under what I consider to be kind of the novelty genre of lo-fi hip hop. Were you self-conscious at all about recording your voice for this album? GJ: Totally. It took me probably like a couple of years, I want to say two or even three years maybe, to really come to terms with how I can use my voice.

I think I still have a lot of working it out to do. But yeah, it was a huge hurdle. GJ: Thanks, man. And that was definitely one of the first songs that I actually felt happy with my falsetto aside from just singing in the car and really killing it.

JW: Does writing for vocals kind of open up what you can do with the song — did it make you think about songwriting in a different way? GJ: It totally did. I started just listening critically to a lot of singer-songwriter stuff to try to pick up on some of these techniques and different ways that they structure songs and it definitely opened an entirely new door.

I can switch it up now. GJ: Yeah! I think pitchfork or somebody said it sounded like Wilco mixed with Lil Peep. And people are mentioning Elliott Smith, which is amazing. He was really a titan of that genre in the mids. Coincidentally he was a Portlander. Did you grow up listening to his music? GJ: I did, [but] probably not as much as I should have. It really took me a while to actually branch out in my music taste.

I want to say until about , I was pretty much exclusively listening to electronic stuff on SoundCloud.