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Sure you need a product to shop around

Spotify has well over 100,000+ uploads per day. soundcloud is more. so, you have a .001% chance of making it in on the feed. Let's say on the off chance the algorithm gods favor your one track. You have 10 seconds to grab enough people attention to push it forward. and there is still no guarantee that somebody who can stream it for free will pay you the $1 you think you are going to get. Actually, Spotify pays the artist $0.003 - $0.005 per stream. you would need 200 - 300 stream to make money.

You could go the self-promotion route, but that still takes more time, and there is still no guarantee that these 8 billion people whom a majority would rather stream Taylor Swift, Adele, Bruno Mars, etc. rather than some indie artist sitting in his bedroom recording his pulse or art on an iPhone. So realistically at most, if you're lucky, is maybe 100 - 1000 listeners and that's being generous. that's still a 1% - .1% chance that if they listen to 10 seconds of your song, going to grab their attention to pay you the $1. Let's say for shits and giggles you manage to grab the attention of 100 people. you will not get 100%. of those 100. at best you may get 20%. or $20 :)

And all of that is predicated on the fact that your tracks are 100% clean. the track cannot sound like it was done in a bedroom. which is what a DAW is useful for, which interestingly enough, runs on a computer, to clean up bedroom sounding tracks and make them professional sounding, that's what the professional use.

Is it possible? anything is possible. is it probable. not likely, but hey, that's what dreams are for 😀

You have that already, Rob. you have your YouTube channel for roughly 10 years, maybe longer. But what's telling is that you have only 104 followers and most of your videos have 0 likes. I'm not trying to be insulting, just presenting facts. In one video the hissing was so bad, that it drowned out the music. Not sure if that was by design or just a bad recording, if that recording hasn't generated any likes in 10 years, then even if you get the website up and running, optimized your SEO, figured out your marketing plan, then it will be all for nought because the sound quality of the video is poor.

I don't think you fully understand what marketing is. it's a full-time job, and it can get expensive. When I first started my freelancing, I spent the first 6 months doing nothing but coming up with a marketing plan, then cold calling every morning, local business, etc. making sure that my website was optimized so that the search engined picked it up. then checking the job boards, submitting proposals. I did very little programming. Now it's worse, because you have the various social media platforms, which you need to be active on to generate enough of a following to generate enough income from your music to cover your ROI, which could take years.

Which means 80% of your working hours needs to be spent on the various social media platform and 20% working on music., worse if you work full-time. I was fortunate enough to be vetted at my job when I quit and started my business, so I could use that income to support myself until it got up and running, which took about a year before I was making a profit. But the marketing didn't stop.

At the end of the day, if your recordings are poor quality, then none of it matters.

https://www.youtube.com/@ElvisNash/videos

That is what you will create

And to lighten the mood.. Jerry Sienfield said to another comedian . I stink you stink . so go out there and stink like the rest of us

Here is one more wise place for you . You can learn the real business world of music

And how it basically works , by talking to real publishers. Not fantasy people

www.globalsongwriters.com

you don't need a publisher to sell your music. I can put my songs up on bandcamp, soundcloud or audius and sell them for a dollar, that's essentially what rob is talking about, you only need a publisher if you're pitching to major artist or tv. I can setup an account with distrokid and have my songs distributed on all the major platforms.

Rob isn't talking about selling AI music. Rob is talking about selling his own music. AI isn't the only digital music out there. AI music is a small fraction. And the songs I'm talking about are the ones that I will be creating on my own in Logic Pro, not my suno tracks

Don't know. but that's what he needs to do is go through his catalog and clean up his current tracks.

All he needs to do is pull his tracks into a DAW and clean them up. That's what Steve Wilson does. He takes bad tracks and cleans them up. None of that matters if Rob can't objectively look at his catalog and clearly identify which tracks are working or not. At this point, this thread is pretty much dead as ultimately, it's up to Rob. The market will be his guide.

I gave you pro advise . Your like my men that work for me and don't listen to nothing

A recording studio is one solution. A DAW is another solution, both a means to the same end.

Home studio guys don’t have commercial chops? How do you think the majority of EDM is produced? You’d be shocked how many charting songs today never see a traditional studio. The industry has shifted — most modern production happens in bedrooms, small rooms, and laptops. There will come a time when big studios are the exception, not the rule.

I get that. When my friend was starting his band and set up a studio in his den. it was fun to hang out and watch them practice. None of them really had money for actual studio time, but they made it work.