A welcome bit of downtime this weekend gives me a chance to have a look into some statistics on my Spotify profile. I don't do this all that often but now that I have ditched Soundcloud, I will probably just stick with Spotify as part of our label - saving costs where I can to stack sats I guess lol.
Anyway, as I have another set of tunes getting released in a couple of weeks time, I pitch them to feature in the editorial playlists and have been lucky enough to have two tracks put on drum & bass playlists with over 250k followers.
That has skyrocketed the number of streams but I'm not saying I'm anywhere near Ed Sheeran levels haha! With 65 tracks released on Spotify since 2015, I'm just happy anyone is listening at all. Here's a quick summary of everything on there:
81,471 streams, 32,993 listeners and 128 followers
My top two most streamed tracks are unsurprisingly the two that feature on the editorial playlists with 64,000 streams between them.
I'm actually stoked that "End of the Tunnel" is the most played and got on to the "Stepping Out" playlist. The track itself has a personal significance in that I made it as a pure celebration reaching the end of my PhD, which was one of the biggest challenges in my life to get through at the time.
I was more surprised that "I'll Always Be Around" got in there as I thought it was more of a "throwaway" track having made it after travelling in USA and a holiday romance that went awry lol. The melody of that one was inspired by a house track from 2000 called "Gimme More Time".
However, the inspiration for this post came in another part of the "Spotify Artists" stats which shows the playlists that my tunes feature on.
According to the stats, I'm on 13 "algorithmic" playlists, which are things like the "Daily Mix", "Release Radar" and "On Repeat". Slowly infiltrating the algorithms haha!
The stat that blew me away the most though was the number of "listener" playlists I'm on. These are playlists that are made by listeners that added my tunes to them... you ready?
5 of 1,100 playlists... WOW!
I had to do a double take on that, it's a ridiculous number but I'm grateful to everyone who has added my tunes to their own playlist and that they get enjoyment from listening.
Even though it's not direct feedback in the sense that messages or comments are left like with other platforms (Hive included), it's bloody awesome to know people across the world are enjoying tunes from this bloke!
If you're on Spotify and follow me, a huge thanks to all of you for tuning in, supporting and sharing the music - I'm stoked you're enjoying them and it's inspired me to make a few more tunes for sure!
Let's get to 100 tunes on Spotify ;)
Nicky
