How do you get there?
The first 1,000 streams on Spotify for a new song is a great achievement, but wouldn’t 5,000 streams be even better? Let’s talk about how to get there.
Check out the full article at CDBaby.com. Here are some of the highlights. Before pushing toward the 5,000-stream mark, look back at how you accomplished your first 1,000 streams. You most likely called in favors from your closest friends and family who were happy to help. Then you pushed it out to social media followed by networking with other artists. After which you reached out to playlists for placement and started the whole thing over again at the one month mark, with renewed vigor and live shows. Leverage that knowledge on your quest for increased streams.
For the push to attaining 2,000 streams, review the video formats that worked and create variants of those videos. Behind the scenes, live performances and Q&A videos are all great ideas for continued engagement. Keep your fans up to date and encourage new ones to sign up for your monthly newsletter. Create an artist pick playlist including famous artists mixed with local artists. Tag the local artists and encourage them to share the playlist with their own audiences.
Getting to 3,000 streams is all about live shows and building connections. Create a playlist in collaborative mode with other artists so they can add their tracks and invite fans to participate. Time to start boosting posts that resonate and release short video clips that encourage the listener to go to the track on Spotify. To get to 4,000 and 5,000 streams means branching out geographically and doing some touring. Push to be a local opener for a headliner. The pay is low, but the exposure is great.
It’s not easy to keep increasing your Spotify song streams and being focused on what works is the only path to get there. It’s all about exposure and letting people know what you have to offer as an artist. You got this.