So there you are. You have your Band Page on Myspace or Soundclick.Com, or somewhere like that, you have a few of your best MP3's posted and ready to play, you've told the world what a wonderful Artist you are, how fantastic, original and different your music is, and, maybe, you have a CD ready to sell. Now, all you have to do is wait, while you watch your music climb up your chosen website play charts. Naturally, when that happens, your entranced public will be desperate to buy your record, the orders will flow in, and Artist Management and Record Companies will be falling over themselves to sign you up to lucerative deals, guaranteeing untold wealth, fame, fortune, and an assured future in the music business....That's what you have been encouraged to believe, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect it to happen, in just that way...So, a with backward, admiring glance at your band page, you click away to the website's homepage and peruse the latest upload listings, and smile with quiet satisfaction, when you see your songs are listed...
The next day, you check the listings again. Sure enough, your songs are still listed, and, hey! you've had a play or two...Ok, not all of the songs were played, but a couple were, that's good, and, it's early days, anyhow, so no worries...Hmmmn...you aren't top of the upload list now, you are at number 12 in the 'latest 50 uploads' list, but, well, that's ok, a song or two was played.... good progress, let's just see what tomorrow brings. Tomorow brings another play or two, two songs have had 5 plays between them, but all the others show a big fat zero.
Another day or two goes by...7 more plays for your first two songs, good, somebody likes them, but no other plays...still, early days, huh? You notice that your songs left the 'latest 50 uploads' list, days ago...A week later, when you check, no plays at all...
Tomorrow.... I should be famous now, what went wrong?
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