Question about Soundclick

Hi everyone, I recently added a song to Soundclick (first time I ever put one of my tunes on the net) and the next day it was listed on the Country: Country General

Now I know that any movement up the charts is a good thing, my question is: how often does a song have to get listened to to come in at/change to those numbers? This charts thing is all new to me. I know it has something to do with streaming, votes & downloads, but can elaborate more on this?

Thanks a bunch Kenn

Only in the rarest instance does a song fly with a good gust of marketing wind.

Everything you say here, Dolores, is true to a degree, but I disagree with your take on it. Getting to #1 by getting a group of folks to have a listen is difficult and unlikely in most cases. Also, the song has to be either downloaded or streamed for at least a minute to count in the ratings, and I think that's important because I know I have listened to many songs for 30 seconds and turned it off because I didn't like it. It takes people returning to listen again and referring friends to the song, etc. In other words, the song has to have something to offer to make it popular, just like in retail publishing, so it *does* say something about the quality of the song in most cases.

And as for vanity publishing, nobody is paying money to be on Soundclick. And how many of us have spent money to produce a CD of our songs simply to hand out as demos? Is that 'vanity publishing' or self -promotion?

No comparison whatsoever. The demo is targeted for a specific listener to use it or dump it in the circular file.

To me, the term 'vanity publishing' is hogwash. Why is promoting yourself vain? I'm sure there are vain people who promote themselves, but to associate all promotion with vanity is just ignorance.

I guess if you look at your stats and you can see that over three years you have had 6000 plus down loads that means a few more people have heard your stuff than if you just played to yourself in your bedroom or to your mates at parties. So that's OK for me. It means that I have nearly broken even on the time it takes to make the stuff with the time that people have listened to it. I.E. if it takes 20 hours to make a 3.5 minute song I need 345 listens to be at the stage where more listening has happened than playing. Then I have achieved something. That is I have conned enough people to waste as much time on my music as I have

Cheers