Are you secretly a silver, gold, platinum artist?
It just depends on where your music is streamed the much it means, as in silver, gold, and platinum.
And if you are registered in the right places, so all know and will count your streams, sales, etc.
A lot is unsold streams. Years from the beginning of the internet until today is for anyone full of streams without people knowing about it.
Then the songs you have registered are counted and collected. People can get punished using your music without permission, and royalties are from then collected. If you select that option. So, many artists are bigger than we are aware of.
And in the shows we were, do we count those views? Online is easier to count in the online IWBF contest I was in 2 years, (2013–2015). But who kept the views registered? It was a few thousand per video, the more famous I got there. Especially all the finals were watched a lot. But I also changed video’s a lot more than others, thus had many views more, people liked the new video’s a lot. The idea was though every month one new video and all could vote for their fav videos. Video’s battled. I was twice the 9th of all females and finalists. My kids were finalists too in the 2014–2015 IWBF contest.
So, you could also count us as a family. We were dutch 1,2,3 all the time, so, you could also count the world views, per country, the entire world watched,
( I could see that on youtube, but on youtube, the views were just a few, the contest used the videos and there the same videos got the views which were not counted as youtube views)
but you could count views per country watching, and could count just your own countries top, and global top. N1M does the same I am in the dutch charts and global charts every week.
The Jango radio counts only for you if you pay. People do listen to you. And ranks your popstar level too, when you are paying to see such.
So, you can be in more places than you know, and more listened to than you know, and could count world streams and sales, and national streams and sales, and can count in all the other countries separately your streams and sales. But who was counting?
So, I know many artists are way more famous than they know.
Then it all is a surprise anyway
At N1M from all my streams, 27% is from just London. So, a third is from just London, some more from the rest of the UK. And I have from the USA listeners, also from Europe, but not so much from my own country, Paris has 17% of the listeners, in total. So, I seem to be listened to in bigger cities. Sometimes also Chicago and Los Angelos listen as much. And mostly Atlanta listens 20%, New York 19%, Paris 17%. And always London 27%. Then all the other cities.
Where the USA 68%, UK 11%, Canada 10%, and Australia 4% listens to my music at n1m. The rest from anywhere else. So, Europe does not listen so much. They never did.
And it is strange because I sang so much since I was 14 in Holland. All know me there. But the streams are so much in other countries, the Dutch streams are hardly noted.
Then if you would calculate the English way or some other way…
There are many ways to calculate your silver, gold, platinum. Trying to compare it with the real awards. You need to register to get such an award. So, I think many artists missed their first awards.
At a point you realize I rather register, so, I get my awards.
We should have awards that look back in time and estimate and just reward many artists with that estimate. And a bit more than what they can prove, as we now know how online works, all goes around.
Many people also listen to parties to my music, and to other artists, so, how do we really know how much all are listened to?
On our drive-in disco shows, (I was a member of Cold Ice Drive in Disco show) we also played all the b sides, and extra songs on artists albums, just what people loved we played, and we made them listen to more songs of artists, just to surprise them with more good music than people show in charts. It is anyway the artists they love, just some more songs of the album. People dancing that already know the song are surprised and can share their fave albums with other people. People loved that.
Also, radio DJ’s make acoustic, and b sides famous a lot of times. Just adding the special songs they found to the playlists for their audience. So, we added to that.
But those actually should get awards too. Played a lot by… and in… for…
So, I know many artists are so much more famous than we can count.
The English way
If it was an end-year way, but it is a top 40 chart way… It would make me a top 40 artist in London. To me, it means a lot. It makes it clear to not give up. All artists should try to estimate who they are already, I think. Else you would give up too soon.
You feel somewhere who you are, and are working on it, and fame comes unexpected, always. We know that, but it is true, so you should better never give up, and just let it all happen the way it comes. But counting a bit helps you understand where people already found you and on what level.
I have about 100.000 cd baby collected streams, for 2 songs and they are still at last year spring with calculations of streams. So, it is almost a year of streams. From September 2018, till spring 2019. Where my second was just released about that time. So, my own song, North and South, mainly had so many streams.
Then plus N1M I have about 4.3 million plays for all my songs there, it could be like an album.
North and South, has about 140.000 plays there. North and South, was doing well on IWBF in 2014 as well. It had 4000 plays or so. Plus on my youtube just a few hundred. It could have also been on room covers, that site is gone now, I forgot if I had it on there. And more places online, I know before CDBaby it was in many places for free. And plays I could not count. Now I see it do well on N1M, I can imagine some places it had the same amount of plays.
On Jango, it went well too, I don't know the regions.
My 100.000 paid streams (all 0.0002 cents, but it counts as paid) is worth 1000 units, I know about 60.000 of them is Russian only. The rest is unclear.
Then just the English part of my n1m is 30%. And counts as unsold streams, thus 4.3 million:600 = about 7100 units: 3= about 2380 units for just London. I do not know exactly the many units in the total of the UK.
North and South only are 140.000:600 = 233 units. So, all my songs, if we would count that as an album would reach a lot more, than just north and south in the UK.
The average top 40 album has 4000 units. (Thus streams divided by 600, plus the paid streams divided by 100 and the sold albums). I am about that. A bit less than that. But to name a way I fit in, it is most near that. Worldwide it is about 10.000 units for an end of year album. Counted from about 2018 that summer to next summer 2019.
I would be about the UK/ London top 40 ends of year artist if they had such.
About 4000 units are all it takes in a week if they counted the end of the year and in some way, I am just in that range of one place in top 40 with an album. For just, the UK. I will calculate soon all the other countries too, to just see the differences and where I stand with them.
I came far from my opinion. And it stimulates to continue. I am so impossible. I had just these demos and Accapella with the worst quality getting this far.
Just like IWBF, 9th of them all, with these crappy youtube video’s I made with bronchitis, etc. Literally stopping camera constantly, and audio, to breathe. Happy when I finally had 5 minutes done without gasping for air. One even commented, just one, though, of all comments, commented could you look happier next time. I was exhausted from extreme bronchitis, so I responded sorry I have bronchitis.
It is the cutest thing that all this happened the same year I found out I am 40% English, it is actually the most of my ethnicity. I never knew that before. I guess my family feels me there.
I do feel connected to all the other places too, also even more since my DNA test. I am very much related to them all. But English was a funny detail, I am English, but I never knew it, and at the same time, I got these many streams from them. It is amazing.
And I would even count a little bit like a tiny pop star there if they had an end of year charts, and could count all of these streams and plays I have. That makes my day.
Just do not give up, and keep working on all your work, you will get what I got, and perhaps even more.
And it all earns not that much, but it is worth it.
And you might need to think of touring. And simply get to know the places that would love you and your music, and just find out with these online streams who loves you, so you can go there.
I am now making new songs for Carousel, that will be my next album.
I have made a few songs now. They will fit in my movie shadows and will be used for that too. I want to get in the youtube studio to record there. So, it takes me a little while. I hope to finally get there soon. I had enough subscribers not that long ago, but a few were too inactive, so youtube erased them. I have to build up again to 10.000 subscribers that are active enough.
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