Everyone in the Network I need your opinion! I want to drop a 6 song EP and promote one single each month for 6 months. My thinking behind this strategy is that I would still get to spend a great amount of time promoting each song and at the same time having more than one song (a catalog) to hear when a new listener wants to check out my catalog after liking whatever song caught the attention. In my mind that's a win-win but now I realize after learning a lot from the group that the reason you want to release singles on Spotify is so that way the algorithm can give you a push. But my real question is if I go heavy on releasing content on Tiktok, YouTube, IG...then is releasing only singles just to get a push from spotify's algorithm really worth it?? Which one was you say gives you greater visibility or better results... Lots of content on tiktok or spotify's algorithm??

Not many people know this but becoming a music marketer and building this amazing community was never something that I planned. It was more of a fantasy that was just never realistic as I shared the thought that I’m sure many of you do… “there’s no money to be made in music.” Before I elaborate more on the money that YOU could be making, let me take you back. I was a freshman in college, making music with my friends all the time doing whatever I could to just be around music, I just had to be around it. So whether it was going to shows, helping friends that have creative events for their music, being in their music videos, scouting locations for their photo shoots, or being a character in some of their projects, it was all fun. I just loved to soak up that creative energy. Nothing felt even close to what I felt when doing this and that's what I did all throughout college — even though I was majoring in computer science and computer information systems... But after college, I just did what my family wanted. I didn't go into music at all. I got my computer information systems degree, got a job, and started making money. Everything was all good until I began to feel stuck. In my free time, I started figuring out how to be around music again and started helping out my friends who are artists and DJs market themselves, get attention, build their audience, sell merch, set up house parties, and do real-life pop-ups in the middle of the street with my friend, interviewing people on the streets. I had to keep my creative juices going. But at the same time, I kept working my 9-5 job. I wanted to work in music but I just had no idea where the money would come from. It just seemed like those people never made money and I didn't grow up with money — so a career not making money wasn't an option for me. But boy I loved what I was doing. Every time my friends came to me needing my help it was always “I need more people to listen to my music, more people to show up to my event more people to buy my merch more people to follow me on Instagram or YouTube”. These folks needed marketing. And for some reason, for me, once I was able to put it together like that, I realized, oh, there's a legitimate opportunity here…

Has anyone ever rebranded their music and their artist brand?

We all JUST NEED A BUDGET FOR THESE PEOPLE TO TAKE ITS SIMPLE PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YO MOUTH IS U GOOD… Period stop wasting your time with reading and research half the time you won’t need none this shit PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU THINK DRAKE JCOLE ANY OF THEM NBA YOUNG BOY TAKING LESSONS ON A MARKET OR ON A TIC TOK LOL NOOOOOO STOP BEING TRICKED DO YOU WHAT YOU LOOKING FOR IS NOT HERE ITS IN YOU ITS IN YOUR POCKET THEY NEED YOU ALL OF EM NEED YOU THINK BOUT THAT AND ALL WE NEED IS EACH OTHER MONEY MONEY AND RESOURCES YES U CAN HAVE MONEY USING WRONG RESOURCES OR U JUST CANT RAP TRY A DIFFERENT POSITION ITS 1000s of em JUST GO GET THE BAG I GUARANTEE YOU EVERY ONE WILL FALL IN LINE N ON THEY KNEES 💯🌊🌎 ONE ON WE ALL ON FOLLOW MY IG IM REALLY GONE DO THIS ALONE WITH A BAG AND RESOURCES IN OVER 8 States utilize WHAT U BORN WITH 1sthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/581rIAkaYGf8ptqVYxMBX9?si=_Qh9CCUrTSKPdj2jUJJzmQ

Have any of us ever dropped a piece of content, had an expectation of how it would do, only to be met with a different reality? Would love to get some stories. What would you have done the same, and what would you have changed if you could?