One Basic Mistake That Can Cost You Musical Success
December 4, 2009 • Artists, Business Practices, Questionable Marketing • Comments
We briefly mentioned this in a prior post, but it REALLY bears repeating.
Name. Your. Tracks. Learn about ID3 tagging. Do it now. Please.
If I get your song emailed, or I download it from a filesharing site, or I rip it from your mixtape, and the name of the track is something like, “Track 03″, I am not going to listen to it. At all. Ever.
You are asking people (not just me but ANY person) to take 3+ minutes out of their life to listen to the result your craft. To wade through 43,589,348,689,464,032 other songs at their fingertips at any given moment. To spend 3+ less minutes with their child/loved one/job, and you are too lazy/careless/amateur-minded/uninterested to actually somehow attach the name of your song to the file?
Not to mention of course, that if your song was to wind up in the hand/computer/iPod of someone who could actually make some kind of positive impact on your fledgling rap career, and this was all they had to track you down, guess what wouldn’t be your ticket to potential stardom?
Track 03.
UPDATE: Look! Someone agrees, and even gives some advice to help! It’s your lucky day.
