I have been building up now.for some.time. My music and lyrics are coming together for the project. I do have all the material and graphics prepared that fits well. Social media force is what I have to really tighten up, especially photographic. Thamkyou for such a wonderful channel, both of you are exquisite to listen to. ❤
Yesssss!!! I've been waiting for a video like this since my music career literally has just begun hahaha Now on to "How To Build a Fanbase From Scratch"
We feel like we are also trting to build from scratch becUse the new age of how to build your brand on social media is very important and a must. Matthew has been playing in mamy sucuessful bands but now we are starting his brand with his name amd it seems we are in the same boat as you as far as starting from scratch.
'Social media is a feed of content for people to consume constantly'. Damn, some of the things you guys say seem obvious, but as musicians we need some reality checks. And your channel is the best for it. Keep up the fantastic work you guys! Love what you do.
Nailed it!!! I've got lots of content I'm mixing down that I want to release, so am "researching" how to do something, before I do it ;) Loving your vids. Love your guys accent, (I'm from Melbourne). I guess you would say we've got a weird accent downunder, to which we would reply, "we don't have an accent, you guys do" :)
Best solid advise! Realistic and to thr point. Not rambling on abstract things. I learned. More in 2 of your videos than many many hours of other "coaches" Thank you!
thank you for a video! It's actually my situation so i would be happy if you could make more videos for those who has just started out as an artist. I'm on a stage of experimenting with things. Spotify hasn't been launched in my country yet and there was a rumor that it will be soon :) But I found a way to use it anyway so I was able to release my first song.
@@Burstimo amazing! I've been watching your videos with tips and advice and I'm not quite clear with what I should do and what would be a waste of time in my situation. For example should I write press release for my next song and send it to journalists? will they be interested if I'm just no one from nowhere with almost no background? Like what should be done on every stage of music career, when to start running adds in social media etc. I'm not asking you to get answers straight away. I tried to give you some topics you could cover in the next videos :)
The point made at 11:04 is really interesting because in our case, the UA-cam channel we have right now was first under the name of our founder Abhishek Behera, he had a couple hundred views and some subscribers and decided to turn it into the official artist channel and that's how we became Freakuensea. Although to be fair, Abhishek Behera never treated his UA-cam as a personal channel, he used to upload performance videos and some guitar lessons on it. Those uploads are still there on our channel!
This was really helpful - Build a brand with the Jab, Jab, then hit em with the Right Hook was great! Would really like to see some videos with more tips on confidence in music, focus, strategy and goal setting if you get the time, but thanks for all your awesome content so far!
Can you do a video on where we can find artist managers so we can delegate these marketing tasks to someone who can help manage that side w the budget we provide them while we focus on the music
Hey, guys! (I accidentally posted this comment on another one of your videos so I copied and pasted just incase lol) I just discovered you channel while doing research on putting my music/demo together. I love how acerbic and well-covered you are through all of your conversations/informats. I'm doin research (based on my country; Australia) on how to approach where I'm at with creating a demo/ draft recording. I've been working on almost a dozen songs in a realised genre of pop rock with referenced artists such as Paloma Faith, Imagine Dragons and Sabrina Carpenter (but with my own country-eque - accent- and emphasise with a bass feel to go with the bass voice)... I'me pretty certain on the idea in mind but I'm not a musician... I've tried and it's a fail especially to what I'm trying to put together... All my songs have a melody and most a bass or instrumental intent... So that being said, do you think it would be smarter to somehow hire/collaborate with a few musicians/producer to have them try and customise my ideas? or would that be a complicated approach for trying to put together original music for an unknown/unmarketed Artist? Anyway I know this is a lot to ask but hope to hear from you. Hope you're well :D - Josh F
I love the branding point..don't overthink it..the arctic monkeys comment is funny I was such a fan of theirs growing up I can't event think of the name outside of the brand
The 'genre' element is not so clear cut for us. We're struggling to find a specific 'fit' is there some tips you could provide to help us work out where we are with the Genre part? Working on uploading to Distrokid soon so would be great to get moving with this..
I know, it really sucks. It's usually fine but if it focuses on our arms it plays up. We will lock it next time :) Pleased you enjoyed the video anyway!
Thank God I have the best artist name in the World :) When it comes to artists logos, the only one I can think of are Nelly Furtado, Basement Jaxx and Wu Tang Clan
watching this video and listening to you guys talk about genre makes me scared because in fact I love making multiple genres, I am a huge nerd that loves making epic orchestral type electronica but I also enjoy making dancehall and afrobeat, I have a great voice and I am a good singer but I also rap once in a while because I enjoy rapping, how do I mix it all how do I make it work is it possible to create a brand with all these multiple facets?
In the end the most important thing is the quality and uniqueness of your music. A great 'brand' and a great 'image' won't get you anywhere when your music fails to impress anyone in the first place. You will never be a great musician by doing what anyone else does and producing poor quality tracks. It's the hardest part for sure, most say it took them between 5 and 10 years (or around 10.000 hours of work) to finally find their style and produce it on a professional level. Also on Spotify you won't make good money at all, sell one album via Bandcamp and you made more money than if you had like a million Spotify streams. Sell your music via Bandcamp and stop supporting Spotify. Spotify ruins artists.
Spotify pays you about 1000 to 2000 dollars per 1m streams, u mean to tell me selling my album on Bandcamp (which I've never heard of) will make me more money than that?
My advice to you two inspiring gems.... consider giving seminars. You WILL fill halls full of people hanging at your lips. (is that a decent english saying?)
Remember to continue to give to your audience. When you have a live show, they've come to see you but keep the mindset that the fans need to leave with more than they came. Most the eyes are on you but it doesn't mean it's for you, your job doesn't end there, you can't be distant from your audience as an emerging band. It's your job to be the Head of Sales for the band and you do that by giving to your audience more than they ever expected from you. That may be simply speaking to people before/after the show, replying to all of the DM's on Instagram, doing cover requests because someone suggested it even though you don't really like doing covers. The frontman becomes the star because it is him who gives the most.
Great question, we are also looking for almost the same... it seems like no matrer how big or if your jist starting off, doing a new project almost makes all of us have to start from the bottom. It is ok, if you let your ego go and understand where you are and do everything you can to lift yourself up...that is how we feel, amd supporting other artists who also have the same goals and passions and drive is a good thing. You seem like you have a good understanding of where you want to go, and that is a big step forward already.
where to register my song in order to get the most out of it (royalties wise) .. publishing administration (Songtrust), PRO's (ASCAP, BMI ..), ISRC and UPC code for companies like NilsenSoundScan and SoundExange to track your song when it's played online ... etc
This is never disappointing 💗. I have a question, can I use other people's beats and still use DistroKid without being sued? I just want exposure for now, the money will follow so I'm not fixating on royalties . Someone pleeeease help
As a solo artist do you suggest doing the Tame Impala thing where you create a band name or should I go by my real name as a brand as many solo artists do. (Rock music)
Thanks for the video---there is something I've been curious about. Is there a strategy for working backwards from a short list of playlists (or one playlist) you want to get on that is Spotify curated? In other words, I want to get on Happy Beats but I know i have to start with user generated playlists. What's the most efficient way to find the most similar playlists to specific Spotify ones? Do you have to go artist/track by track and find them on other playlists? Would Chartmetric be useful? Thanks in advance.
We wouldn't suggest putting all your eggs in one basket like that and instead just focus on your overall growth and organic reach through the algorithm. Focus on getting on genre specific playlists that will push you out to more fans of your genre
That's the problem, though---what genre is Happy Beats? I'm asking what I think is a relevant question---the genre breakdowns aren't always clear. The end goal is to get Spotify to playlist you, so what that translates into is Spotify essentially defines the genres through their playlists.
Furthermore---I don't think the issue is about genre, genre is based on the curation process. Every curator, every playlist owner/runner simply decides what the genre is for THAT playlist. This is why this is such a problem/obstacle. I don't agree that this particular issue is about pre-defined genres, I think it's strictly about every individual playlist and whatever the rules are that govern how that playlist operates.
This was not such a big problem in the traditional radio era for the simple reason that there were NOWHERE near as many radio stations as there are playlists on the streaming platforms. The result was every radio station had to be flexible or they would run out of material to broadcast. That's not true anymore. How many tens of millions of playlists are there on the platforms now? How can anyone realistically sort through that? It's a waste of time to randomly submit to playlists because it's not always easy to do. There must be a way to make the whole process more efficient, but I really don't think there is one. As I said in the other post--there is no "genre" anymore, there is just a mass of playlist owners and every one of them will make some kind of fully subjective judgment on whether they want your music or not, which is incredibly unpredictable and it's something Spotify has to work on refining. In other words, the system is still very crude and chaotic. Think of how many people waste money on e.g. Submithub to randomly hit playlist runners who will listen to ten seconds of their track at best and then reject it based on essentially random reasons.
Ok. I'm going to piss you guys off here.... HEINEKEN??? There's better beer in Holland than that. Anyway great video and inspiration to build my artist brand. Definitely taking this one at heart to develope my Artist and brand
Am i right by Thinking that entertaining would be the "best" content, bc everybody wants to be entertained...and the Second best is documenting (but you need an interesting document-worthy Lifestyle)...and educating is the thirdbest (bc Not so much People want to learn something musicaly...and i would have a lot of ppl who are also musicians)...
@@Burstimo thank you Very much for replying that fast...it's also Very nice and helps to Trust burstimo that you reply to every comment! Am i right when i Try to figure out my content/Theme by just studieng the brand/image/content of similar Artists and let me inspire and through this Inspiration create my own?
Hi Guys, we love your content and all the hard work you put into your channel. We have filled in the form on your web site to find out if you would be intrested in helping us or mentoring us as a new re branded act. I think it would be best if we could video chat so we can explain in more details, let us know your thoughts when you get a chance... Rock amd roll.
Guys please help me! what's your opinion about the quality of the songs when you start with your project? Is 100% an obligation that should be mix and mastering 100% professional or should be good enough to show your message and gives the opportunity to connect with your target fans?
I like this video but please, stop drinking that often it looks really really weird take it as my feedback, not complaining good luck and thanks for such useful content :)
These are the two best people making music help videos. No one else comes close really.
Thank you for your support :)
We agree with you on this.
agreed
Agreed
Agreed, they're #1
in my opinion burstimo have one of the best honest content in youtube thank you guys!
Aside from the helpful advice, I love that fact that you’re both drinking beer 🙌🏼
Haha we always record after a long day in the office so it's needed 😉
I reckon if it was the US, they would probably have a "smoke" as well... ;)
Yeesss 🍻🍻🍻
I know this video is old as crap but I just got my first release on new music friday for country. I was so excited. Thank u guys I love the tips
I have been building up now.for some.time. My music and lyrics are coming together for the project. I do have all the material and graphics prepared that fits well.
Social media force is what I have to really tighten up, especially photographic.
Thamkyou for such a wonderful channel, both of you are exquisite to listen to. ❤
Yesssss!!! I've been waiting for a video like this since my music career literally has just begun hahaha
Now on to "How To Build a Fanbase From Scratch"
Ayyy I hope they're useful!
We feel like we are also trting to build from scratch becUse the new age of how to build your brand on social media is very important and a must. Matthew has been playing in mamy sucuessful bands but now we are starting his brand with his name amd it seems we are in the same boat as you as far as starting from scratch.
Yo the way your video started abruptly made me think there were helllllaaaaa bloopers...
Love you guys and your content. Keep banging.
Hahah thanks!
'Social media is a feed of content for people to consume constantly'. Damn, some of the things you guys say seem obvious, but as musicians we need some reality checks. And your channel is the best for it. Keep up the fantastic work you guys! Love what you do.
You guys are fantastic; I love your content and have learned so much from your videos-thank you!
Great content, a lot to dissect from this that will help my music career.
Nailed it!!! I've got lots of content I'm mixing down that I want to release, so am "researching" how to do something, before I do it ;)
Loving your vids. Love your guys accent, (I'm from Melbourne). I guess you would say we've got a weird accent downunder, to which we would reply, "we don't have an accent, you guys do"
:)
Best solid advise! Realistic and to thr point. Not rambling on abstract things. I learned. More in 2 of your videos than many many hours of other "coaches"
Thank you!
Yep. I'm in that category. Working towards it.
Love your channel, Burstimo!
Such gems, each and everyone of your vids guys! Thank you once again!!!
You're welcome 🙏
my man, Alex with the green bay packers jersey, solidarity from Wisconsin!
🙌🙌🙌🙌
You guys are amazing thank you for all the tips
thank you for a video! It's actually my situation so i would be happy if you could make more videos for those who has just started out as an artist. I'm on a stage of experimenting with things. Spotify hasn't been launched in my country yet and there was a rumor that it will be soon :) But I found a way to use it anyway so I was able to release my first song.
You're welcome! We're planning on doing more videos for artist who are just starting out
@@Burstimo amazing! I've been watching your videos with tips and advice and I'm not quite clear with what I should do and what would be a waste of time in my situation. For example should I write press release for my next song and send it to journalists? will they be interested if I'm just no one from nowhere with almost no background? Like what should be done on every stage of music career, when to start running adds in social media etc. I'm not asking you to get answers straight away. I tried to give you some topics you could cover in the next videos :)
@@valerihok It all depends on the time and budget you have as we'd suggest doing it all as soon as you can!
The point made at 11:04 is really interesting because in our case, the UA-cam channel we have right now was first under the name of our founder Abhishek Behera, he had a couple hundred views and some subscribers and decided to turn it into the official artist channel and that's how we became Freakuensea. Although to be fair, Abhishek Behera never treated his UA-cam as a personal channel, he used to upload performance videos and some guitar lessons on it. Those uploads are still there on our channel!
I find these videos and podcasts incredibly useful and motivational. Thanks
Glad to hear!
This was really helpful - Build a brand with the Jab, Jab, then hit em with the Right Hook was great!
Would really like to see some videos with more tips on confidence in music, focus, strategy and goal setting if you get the time, but thanks for all your awesome content so far!
Glad you found it helpful!
JAB, JAB, JAB, RIGHT HOOK
Can you do a video on where we can find artist managers so we can delegate these marketing tasks to someone who can help manage that side w the budget we provide them while we focus on the music
Such helpful tips in with these too.
Hey, guys! (I accidentally posted this comment on another one of your videos so I copied and pasted just incase lol) I just discovered you channel while doing research on putting my music/demo together. I love how acerbic and well-covered you are through all of your conversations/informats. I'm doin research (based on my country; Australia) on how to approach where I'm at with creating a demo/ draft recording. I've been working on almost a dozen songs in a realised genre of pop rock with referenced artists such as Paloma Faith, Imagine Dragons and Sabrina Carpenter (but with my own country-eque - accent- and emphasise with a bass feel to go with the bass voice)... I'me pretty certain on the idea in mind but I'm not a musician... I've tried and it's a fail especially to what I'm trying to put together... All my songs have a melody and most a bass or instrumental intent... So that being said, do you think it would be smarter to somehow hire/collaborate with a few musicians/producer to have them try and customise my ideas? or would that be a complicated approach for trying to put together original music for an unknown/unmarketed Artist? Anyway I know this is a lot to ask but hope to hear from you. Hope you're well :D - Josh F
Nailed it love you guys!
I love the branding point..don't overthink it..the arctic monkeys comment is funny I was such a fan of theirs growing up I can't event think of the name outside of the brand
Please make a video on finding and understanding your genre! I find my songs crossover
Make 30 songs. You’ll know your genre. A few will always be a bit different but the majority will be a specific genre
How would work towards making a good quality release?
We'll look to cover this soon
You Guys! ❤️
Love your channel thanks for this
Great vid. We got Spotify artist page on our first single via cdbaby.
The 'genre' element is not so clear cut for us. We're struggling to find a specific 'fit' is there some tips you could provide to help us work out where we are with the Genre part? Working on uploading to Distrokid soon so would be great to get moving with this..
Great video. I think the auto focus on the camera was playing up
I know, it really sucks. It's usually fine but if it focuses on our arms it plays up. We will lock it next time :) Pleased you enjoyed the video anyway!
Thank God I have the best artist name in the World :) When it comes to artists logos, the only one I can think of are Nelly Furtado, Basement Jaxx and Wu Tang Clan
i like good music...no matter the genre...i am a singer, songwriter and producer...any advice??
watching this video and listening to you guys talk about genre makes me scared because in fact I love making multiple genres, I am a huge nerd that loves making epic orchestral type electronica but I also enjoy making dancehall and afrobeat, I have a great voice and I am a good singer but I also rap once in a while because I enjoy rapping, how do I mix it all how do I make it work is it possible to create a brand with all these multiple facets?
In the end the most important thing is the quality and uniqueness of your music. A great 'brand' and a great 'image' won't get you anywhere when your music fails to impress anyone in the first place. You will never be a great musician by doing what anyone else does and producing poor quality tracks. It's the hardest part for sure, most say it took them between 5 and 10 years (or around 10.000 hours of work) to finally find their style and produce it on a professional level. Also on Spotify you won't make good money at all, sell one album via Bandcamp and you made more money than if you had like a million Spotify streams. Sell your music via Bandcamp and stop supporting Spotify. Spotify ruins artists.
Spotify pays you about 1000 to 2000 dollars per 1m streams, u mean to tell me selling my album on Bandcamp (which I've never heard of) will make me more money than that?
My advice to you two inspiring gems.... consider giving seminars. You WILL fill halls full of people hanging at your lips. (is that a decent english saying?)
We're thinking of doing it in the future!
What if due to some reasons we can't get a distributor?
As always a solid vid. Do you have any advice for someone who is starting a new band as frontman after being in several bands in a support role?
Remember to continue to give to your audience. When you have a live show, they've come to see you but keep the mindset that the fans need to leave with more than they came. Most the eyes are on you but it doesn't mean it's for you, your job doesn't end there, you can't be distant from your audience as an emerging band. It's your job to be the Head of Sales for the band and you do that by giving to your audience more than they ever expected from you. That may be simply speaking to people before/after the show, replying to all of the DM's on Instagram, doing cover requests because someone suggested it even though you don't really like doing covers. The frontman becomes the star because it is him who gives the most.
Great question, we are also looking for almost the same... it seems like no matrer how big or if your jist starting off, doing a new project almost makes all of us have to start from the bottom. It is ok, if you let your ego go and understand where you are and do everything you can to lift yourself up...that is how we feel, amd supporting other artists who also have the same goals and passions and drive is a good thing. You seem like you have a good understanding of where you want to go, and that is a big step forward already.
Very good video, thankyou
where to register my song in order to get the most out of it (royalties wise) .. publishing administration (Songtrust), PRO's (ASCAP, BMI ..), ISRC and UPC code for companies like NilsenSoundScan and SoundExange to track your song when it's played online ... etc
We'll look to cover this soon
@@Burstimo thank you :)
This is never disappointing 💗. I have a question, can I use other people's beats and still use DistroKid without being sued? I just want exposure for now, the money will follow so I'm not fixating on royalties . Someone pleeeease help
You can't copyright ' back beats'
So yes.. You can use the beats.
You can akso use 5 notes of another's melody.
Awesome content! :-)
Thank you so much!
🔥🔥🔥
Would you say amuse is as good as distrokid ?
As a solo artist do you suggest doing the Tame Impala thing where you create a band name or should I go by my real name as a brand as many solo artists do. (Rock music)
Whatever suits your brand best
Thank you so much it's helps
What about someone who can make songs in different genres
DONE.
Thanks for the video---there is something I've been curious about. Is there a strategy for working backwards from a short list of playlists (or one playlist) you want to get on that is Spotify curated? In other words, I want to get on Happy Beats but I know i have to start with user generated playlists. What's the most efficient way to find the most similar playlists to specific Spotify ones? Do you have to go artist/track by track and find them on other playlists? Would Chartmetric be useful? Thanks in advance.
We wouldn't suggest putting all your eggs in one basket like that and instead just focus on your overall growth and organic reach through the algorithm.
Focus on getting on genre specific playlists that will push you out to more fans of your genre
That's the problem, though---what genre is Happy Beats? I'm asking what I think is a relevant question---the genre breakdowns aren't always clear. The end goal is to get Spotify to playlist you, so what that translates into is Spotify essentially defines the genres through their playlists.
Furthermore---I don't think the issue is about genre, genre is based on the curation process. Every curator, every playlist owner/runner simply decides what the genre is for THAT playlist. This is why this is such a problem/obstacle. I don't agree that this particular issue is about pre-defined genres, I think it's strictly about every individual playlist and whatever the rules are that govern how that playlist operates.
This was not such a big problem in the traditional radio era for the simple reason that there were NOWHERE near as many radio stations as there are playlists on the streaming platforms. The result was every radio station had to be flexible or they would run out of material to broadcast. That's not true anymore. How many tens of millions of playlists are there on the platforms now? How can anyone realistically sort through that? It's a waste of time to randomly submit to playlists because it's not always easy to do. There must be a way to make the whole process more efficient, but I really don't think there is one. As I said in the other post--there is no "genre" anymore, there is just a mass of playlist owners and every one of them will make some kind of fully subjective judgment on whether they want your music or not, which is incredibly unpredictable and it's something Spotify has to work on refining. In other words, the system is still very crude and chaotic. Think of how many people waste money on e.g. Submithub to randomly hit playlist runners who will listen to ten seconds of their track at best and then reject it based on essentially random reasons.
Awesoooome
I have always wondered what the hell this name meant. But it was memorable
Ok. I'm going to piss you guys off here.... HEINEKEN??? There's better beer in Holland than that. Anyway great video and inspiration to build my artist brand. Definitely taking this one at heart to develope my Artist and brand
British beers aren't up there with your beer!
It was 'on sale' this week
U hit it on the nose with the content thing. In New Orleans they just don't get it.
We get it!
Am i right by Thinking that entertaining would be the "best" content, bc everybody wants to be entertained...and the Second best is documenting (but you need an interesting document-worthy Lifestyle)...and educating is the thirdbest (bc Not so much People want to learn something musicaly...and i would have a lot of ppl who are also musicians)...
There's no 'best' it's more what's fitting to your style and target audience
@@Burstimo thank you Very much for replying that fast...it's also Very nice and helps to Trust burstimo that you reply to every comment! Am i right when i Try to figure out my content/Theme by just studieng the brand/image/content of similar Artists and let me inspire and through this Inspiration create my own?
@@christina4699 yes that's a great idea
So you know brandmansean on UA-cam? He do a lot of Videos for musicians about Branding...
We love him!
punch punch right hook 🤣
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Well got music..but nothing else
Start working on your branding now
Hi Guys, we love your content and all the hard work you put into your channel. We have filled in the form on your web site to find out if you would be intrested in helping us or mentoring us as a new re branded act. I think it would be best if we could video chat so we can explain in more details, let us know your thoughts when you get a chance... Rock amd roll.
Amazing, thank you.
We'll respond within 24 hours if it's something we can work with 👍
Guys please help me! what's your opinion about the quality of the songs when you start with your project? Is 100% an obligation that should be mix and mastering 100% professional or should be good enough to show your message and gives the opportunity to connect with your target fans?
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I like this video
but please, stop drinking that often
it looks really really weird
take it as my feedback, not complaining
good luck and thanks for such useful content :)
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