I'm glad releasing every 2 months works as a strategy, because if you think about it, it fits a reasonable songwriting/production schedule and budgeting for any artist, even if you're not doing it full time yet. Basically there's no excuse. :)
Budgeting I do not agree. If you are in a genre that you need to record live drums and send all tracks for mixing and mastering you have to record as many songs at once as possible to make it economically viable. But after that yes, just sit on it for a while and release one every two months
I understand this, but personally, as a consumer/listener of music, I'm always disappointed if there's only a single being released. Sometimes I even hold myself back from listening, to wait for the whole album. As a music consumer I hate singles. As a creator, I can see the fun.
I find myself with the same dilemma. As fans, myself and my friends are way more interested in albums than singles. On the other hand, this mostly applies to bands and artists that we already know and want to hear more of. It's probably safe to assume that people who have never heard my music before will only listen to one or two songs before deciding whether they like it or not.
@@switchghost2413Singles are in a way little taste bites. What if I like it, nothing else there. I put out a single recently. It stands on its own. I have two other albums available. But I will not do one single after another. Artistically I don't like it. Oh well... 😊
Not sure how I landed on this channel exactly, but found myself watching a few - think some of them are really in-depth and just wanted to let you know I subbed for that! :)
My band has a 6 track album that we are going to release as individual singles, with either a lyric video or a performance video for every song. Releasing each song on the 1st of each month over a 6 month period, with the album printed on vinyl as a limited release for people to buy, and the vinyl has a bonus track. I’m praying it works.
Been dropping a single once a month with an accompanying YT video every two or so weeks after the single release. That way, something's out roughly every two weeks to build interest and an audience. Love your channel.
@@umraansyed Yes. It's very slow growth but growth nevertheless. We're a new band with zero audience to start with, so we're building from the ground up. In fact, the band started with just me and a handful of songs I had written and recorded. Now, we're two and we may soon be looking to add other members. We're making progress one inch at time, and trying to have some fun along the way. Swing by the channel and check out our videos ru-vid.com/show-UCgs0o0L85xWzAOF6x2s-LGw, or give us a spin on Spotify open.spotify.com/artist/1lPOFX2jeYXu4tclj1A7jH.
I agree !00% I started releasing 1 - 7 song album every month!!! and Ive been getting pretty good streams. Enough to pay bills! Content is King! Much love! ❤️❤️❤️
I was thinking about releasing a single every 2-3 weeks. Followed by a video release for 1/2 the project the same way. Its a lot of work but Quarantine helped me get a lot done.
I like what you're saying Maddy but from an artist perspective I think a point has been missed here: just because a song is album or EP worthy (in the traditional sense) definitely does not make it single worthy, and I see alot of artists making this mistake. In the past, a few strong singles from the front half of an album or EP release were enough to support the whole release - but now each individual single needs to be strong enough to stand on its own (which is very hard to do right) if you are going to release in this fashion. If it isn't then you are failing yourself and really shooting yourself in the foot. In the long term this is likely changing the way in which music is made. It isn't to say that either way is right or wrong but just remember that an EP or album is an art piece that requires ebb and flow: highs, lows, fast, and slow
Interesting comment actually, not one we've thought about massively, mainly because most artists believe every track is single worthy! Definitely one to consider though
T.Lopea: I have been submitting 2 singles per week, every friday, upto complete the ten songs of the album. This helps you in the way that the songs that could be no so strong as being a single are not alone. The only downside I see on this way of doing is that the list of albums and singles become a jungle with excesive items I think for people is interested in know your work Burstimo: What about the better day of the week for submitting a single?
@@lrn-vitoria403 that's a great idea. Vampire Weekend did something similar but a bit more spaced out, for their latest album. You can also keep the re-use the ISRC codes for singles on the scheduled album release and it will make them show up correctly in the store (DistroKid)
I discovered this channel a few days ago .. first of all , great advice and great strategy .. Now this knowledge that you are sharing with us is priceless . Thanks a million .
Thank you guys so much for helping me and other artists with marketing and learning about the industry! It would be helpful to me and possibly many other artists if you could make a video going over what kind of marketing works best for different things and what techniques work best when maybe. Just an idea : ) Thank you for helping all of us out and please continue making videos like this! Thank you Burstimo! : )
I was definetly thinking on releasing an EP for my first spotify release but now i don't know anymore... The thing about the singles makes total sense but I also liked the idea of doing a "full" proyect with 4 or 5 songs that fit well together
I used to hate the idea of releasing my 15 songs album as singles... but i think that was the best advice i got. my first release is due on april 1st and i'm very excited about this whole new strategy. thanks a lot 💙💪
I love your tips , i really believe my music deserves to be heard , theres so much love in every single proyect i do , marketing is always been something i dont understand very well but i will start applying this technics , hope next time i come thru is to tell you i got my first mill on my views lol much love
i noticed things like this have worked for new and old bands who tend to make pop indie rock, EDM hip hop but when it comes to more underground music genres like industrial/EBM black and death metal fans tend to expect albums and lagging behind the trends of what mainstream music followers. Also age range of fan based is important to know an older fan based like what U2 has would go for albums and physical things while i can't think drake fans would be too bothered having physical things or full length albums
To be honest i just hit 1k a 2 week ago ,because of u guys i took every note & tricks and applied to my work.....spacial Content, i love u guys so much
Best time ever to be releasing. I'm releasing 2/3 tracks a month at the minute and it's starting to work. In combination with engagement gates linked with ads to get people to follow and save my tracks this has been a big success so far.
I've watched about 4 or 5 of your videos in the last couple of hours and you have completely changed my view on how to work on my social networks and how to release music these days. I've got a band and we will release our new material soon, actually we were supposed to release it a month ago or so, but the pandemia delayed everything. But now, with all this tips, I can see that our strategy needs some adjustments. Thanks a lot for your videos, they're very helpful.
Completely agree I used to barely hit 50-100 streams before releasing singles consistently. Then I released my EP and well we're at more than half 1K streams with not even 22 followers...and my music is not even that good sometimes !
You can also keep a connection, like for example a similar cover for every different single, so that listeners can think that all these singles are related as this had been an album... My two cents
Same here. Especially if you want to make music videos for them too. Like 3/4 songs a year is the max. Unless you're just really good at all this stuff already.
It's better to do what you can and do it well than take on more than you handle. Releasing every 2 or 3 months allows time for great campaigns as well :)
I've been using Russ' strategy of dropping a song every week until you blow up, you slowly start to see the growth, I know it sounds insane but the quality and consistency is great . I've only been making music for a year and it's improved my overall song quality, any tips?
Great video, as always! I've been inspired by an artist on instagram who puts out 2 tracks a month, but it may be a bit excessive? The quality stays the same as I'm usually not using more than a week on a track, but there may be other pitfalls, such as submitting to Spotify editorial playlists. It's recommended to do submit at least 4 weeks before the release, which means every second track won't get the opportunity. So bit of a wobble.
I'm trying my best with this, completely self produced and releasing a new single every month along with supporting RU-vid content! Some planning involved but also making it up as I go along!
I did this a little with my last release. Four singles released before the album, one more after the album's release. It's taken me about five months since that last single dropped (September 2019) to compose, arrange, write and record enough new material (and to earn enough money) to start a similar strategy for a new EP. My question is how do you constantly put out and promote music without going into creative fatigue? Or without breaking the bank?
@@Burstimo And also, how do you factor in time to get inspired? After I finished my current release I didn't write anything for months because I didn't have anything to draw on.
Big question, did the artist you keep mentioning already have a following on Spotify, Instagram, etc. or did this release process boost him/her on its own?
Burstimo I’m seeing my streams go up on release day and then almost nothing right after that! I’m running facebooks and Instagram ads a lot and submitting each song I make now to the Spotify curators. Do you have any advice to keep the momentum going after a release?
If you are totaly unknown interpret who has prepared 4 songs that you validate as follows: Song A - 100% Song B - 80% Song C - 70% Song D - 60% You plan to create account on spotify, what is the best order and timeline to release those songs A B C D?
So I am right on the beginning and I created an album with 13 songs. Should I release every song as a single (meaning that the first people to get on my profile will only be able to listen to one song) or should I drop the full album and continue with your strategy afterwards? In that case, the people will be able to listen to different songs as they discover me and will more likely remember me.
how does it help to re-release tracks? spotify doesn't allow re-submission for playlists, even if you removed the tracks and re-released it. spotify detects it automatically and know if you did it, any workarounds?
Who was the artist doing a single a week for 7 weeks? Also, how do you make sure your audience knows every single is new? This may sound obvious, but I've had situations where I release multiple live videos in the same venue, or different singles with artwork in the same style, and notice that they get dimishing returns in attention, because people think they've already seen it.
I wouldn't suggest releasing the same single or different versions of the same track repeatedly as that will lose attention from your audience and bombard them with the same content. New singles as often as you can instead!
Thanks so much-as always- for the great advice! So I have an 11 track album coming out May 1st, are you saying I should release one single a week/every couple of weeks? I have two singles out from the record already, and two videos. (On a side note: do you have any videos on Pandora? I’ve been told Pandora listeners are age 30 on up, which seems to be my demographic..) thanks❣️🙏❣️
My plan is to release. an instrumental track every week (first one is scheduled to be released at march 20th). An unrelated question if i may, i've noticed there are facebook groups dedicated to spotify "follow for follow" and playlist adds for playlist adds, but in such a way that looks super sketchy.... any thoughts on that? Cheers
I’ll be releasing a song every Friday for as long as I can starting June 5th. Right now I’m weeks ahead. I really love your advice. You talk about getting “your artists 1m followers” how can I become one of your artists that you help?
great video, as usual. Are you suggesting that in a (for example) 7 song EP, you release all 7 tracks as singles and the put them under the same title (ie the ep) when they're released? Or just release singles? thanks
@@Burstimo thank you so much for your help. A good topic you could discuss is if you have a fanbase as a youtuber for a niche. The right way to serve your music to them. I have a motorcycle club channel where i discuss the lifestyle from a 1%er aspect and my channel gets the most amazing engagement my 2nd channel that im going to release the music too has 1.6k subs and i havent even dropped 1 video yet if you could do something on how to take one base to another. What im going to do is when i release the music ill do it mini movie style so theyll be engaged in MC related story and then the music gets fed to them.
So if you're releasing albums tracks as singles, do you pull the singles once the album drops? Or do you leave "redundant" tracks up? I can imagine a rationale for both. Great channel, so informative and helpful.
Thanks so much for these video's, very interesting! But what about getting on Deezer or Apple Music playlists? Any tips for that? I heard speaking about feature.fm advertising, but I don't know if it's worth it?
Great Channel! You helped me alot but i have a question: how important is a pronounceable artist name? i'm talking about mine (norwegian surname ihde) should i keep it?
Not a HUGE issue as there are some huge artists out there who have names no one knows how to really say haha. When you have the audience, people will know your name
@@michaelihde It could be helpfull trying to look for you, because it could be easier to find you. I Have been crazy looking for a name for my new project becuase you always find people with the same or similar name.
