Peggy

Yes, for Feb. 14th... considering international time zone and Songstuff being international, I often work through posting and release times. What do you think is a good posting time for the Valentine's Playlist considering we want to reach international audiences? We'll run a promo post prior to the 14th.

Haven't listened to Rogan, even once. May be an *sshole maybe not. I haven't "followed" much of Neil or Joni except for their music, may be *ssholes maybe not. Just not big on shutting speech or conversation down. But It's a thing going on for the last few years. Just sorry that so many go along with it and artists jumping in or in the lead. That's not freedom .. it's control.

No problem there with their personal choice to leave. It was the him or me that was hard to take.

Ok, whatever

I really really like Neil and Joni's music. Have most of Neil's albums and know most of his lyrics. Same with Joni, almost. So much...it was super cool that on a Songstuff lyric critique I received, there was a comment comparing my lyric to something Joni would write. Haha.. But.... I would much rather hope they did this to get some current publicity, even a little vitrue signaling than to believe they thought censoring was a good thing. Societies throughout time discovered, most often too late, that control by a few is a scary thing. It's crazy and I wish people would look deeper at what they are asking friends, family, regulators, elected officials, and companies to do just to keep people from talking about things openly, respectfully or raucous in the appropriate environment.

Hi Joe, Welcome to Songstuff. Congrats on your degree! Good luck in your networking and with getting some tracks to master for practice. Sounds like a good exercise to carry out to improve or maintain your skills while not yet working in the industry. Peggy

Welcome to Songstuff, Sophie!

Welcome to Songstuff, Arne. Are you creating any music for your channel or working to promote it? Maybe you could tell us a bit about your music and how Songstuff can help out. Peggy

Neil, Joni and anyone else, if they don't want their music on Spotify or any platform, for whatever reason, I support them and I'm fine with them taking a personal stand. But to want to shut down others based on their opinions is acting like a big baby, or "bullying" or anti-freedom. Control and censuring and forceful positioning is not good in the long run. Neil's opinions are his opinions just as Eric Clapton's opinions are Eric's. I have never listened to Rogan... I am not sure why he should be deplatformed for misinformation if the NIH, CDC, Dr. Fauci, medical communities, the WHO, political leaders at all levels of governments, news media across the board are also not deplatformed, fired, or censured for the minute by minute daily misinformation they have been giving out since this virus got unleashed on the world. Instead of using bribery, lies, threats and censorship I believe an open discussion and conversation would have been a much better option. The entertainment Industries whether in music, comedy, movies, sports, advertising, etc have never stopped trying to shape the world. Problem is many of them think it's their privilege to the exclusion of others with competing ideas.

Welcome to Songstuff, Andy! Nice to have you join in with us. Peggy

Welcome to Songstuff, Sasha. That's a great background and good to have your latest tracks to check out.

There are several DIY ways to do it, some easier than others but once you're set up and do it a few times it becomes a pretty routine task to include playlists on your release plan's to-do list. Here's a blog link of one of these that you might find helpful. I've included DIYMusicians' article "Pitch Your New Music to Amazon Music’s Playlists". https://forums.songstuff.com/blogs/entry/2060-pitch-your-new-music-to-amazon-music’s-playlists/

On your New Release plan, step out and include pitching your music directly to Amazon’s playlist curators for their consideration. These DIY instructions walk you through the easy process from getting verified on Amazon Music for Artists and using the New Release Tool. https://diymusician.cdbaby.com/news/pitch-your-new-music-to-amazon-musics-playlists/

"Every artist, who decides to take his or her music on a professional level, comes to the point when it is time to dive in and start getting to know the business side of the music industry." https://musicindustryweekly.com/music-publishing-prison-for-an-artist-or-skill-training/

This is so interesting. So what’s going on here? Do you have any ideas or reasons that you think might be causing this?? Is it an iTunes promotion clogging the chart? Or a lack of interest in current music? Or both? Nature, you know, abhors a vacuum. https://www.showbiz411.com/2022/01/16/what-year-is-it-nearly-a-third-of-the-itunes-top-100-taken-by-oldies-new-releases-not-catching-on

Hi Vishwa, Welcome to Songstuff. Are you a writer, performer or have other interests in music? Should you need any help around the boards, just ask. Peggy

How Music NFTs Could Disrupt the Music Industry https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/how-music-nfts-could-disrupt-music-industry.htm

Here’s How Chartmetric Is Leveraging Data to Make Marketing a Lot Easier. https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/01/11/chartmetric-music-leveraging-data/

I use a Sterling ST55 with a shock mount and pop filter in the studio. It's mostly used as a vocal mic. It's been a good mic over the years.

For the YouTube playlists the song needs to be a good quality recording and available on the YouTube platform.

Welcome to Songstuff, Bawb!

Sounds really great, John! Good luck with your efforts and fingers crossed that something comes out of it for you and the young unknowns. Looking forward to hearing the progress.

Welcome to Songstuff, Walnut Love. Checking out your YouTube channel, and subscribed. How successful do you think your release was? Did you have have a promotion plan? Peggy

Hi Greg, I used Old Love on last year's playlist and it will most likely will be on this year's also. Good song! Will check out the other one also. Peggy