Here is some news from the music hobby industrial complex.
Song two from what-can-you-do-in-an-afternoon, take-less-time-and-spend-less-money-than-if-your-hobby-was-angling, dance-music-experimentalists Elite Panic was released to all major streaming services on February 1st.
According to DistroKid, this has now brought us to a mighty 58 streams on Spotify - broken down like this:
And the Spotify app now reports this:
Most thrillingly, Elite Panic has now dipped it's toe in algorithmic curation and has been served up to Phil like it's a real piece of music you might listen to. This gives me the same little buzz I got when I saw Egg Bacon Chips and Beans in an actual bookshop:
Over on Apple Music the story is purer, with a total of 1 stream in the last 365 days, broken down like this:
(I think, to be honest, that was probably me.)
While at bandcamp, well-known to be a significant element of any future monetisation model for modern musicians, the commerce wheels are starting to turn with sales for this period now totalling £2.83. (Thanks Iain!)
Once again, I seem to be the lone follower.
The marketing department has not been resting on its laurels though and, this week, Specialist Equipment rolled out its first Above The Line advertising campaign with this 'box ad' in The Wire. £130. Again, a tiny chill to be inside something I've read for so long. It's not a big ad, right at the back of the magazine, but I suspect that people who read The Wire read all of it. Thus far any effect on sales, visits, streams, conversions, brand awareness or image attribute shift has been undetectable but, hey, it's early. ZTT wasn't built in a day.
Because that ad points at Bandcamp I thought maybe there should be more than two tracks there so I rushed out a new one and put it up. Therefore, Bosses Time made it's debut yesterday. Here's the instagram video: (Keynote + iMovie is all anyone needs for modern music promotion.)
(Yes, I know it should probably have an apostrophe, but I didn't like how that looked. I'm an artist.)
Bosses Time won't be on streaming services until March 1st so that's an exciting exclusive for all my Bandcamp followers (i.e. me)
Finally, and most excitingly, Mark honoured me with a 'dub edit' of Shaky Debut. It's far superior to the original. Mark can do modern music rhythms in a way I just can't figure. I tried to upload it to Spotify and Bandcamp but the algos rejected it. Soundcloud appears to be more tolerant, however.