Anyone spotted any anomalies? For May, I had 441 plays, and 52 downloads. Not a bad ratio, I suppose, but 51 of the downloads was in one day Might be nothing, just seemed a bit quirky to me…
I noticed the charts there too. The top 20 or so bands have pro accounts and always feature in the charts. Folks like us (with the freebie account) tend not to be so popular. Wonder why that is?
I’d be tempted to get one of those accounts but only cos they look a million times better than the free accounts. I managed #2 there many moons ago on plays and downloads alone, I’m not greedy
I’ve never really looked at SC’s stats - but I just did it now. It seems I get anywhere from 70 -150 plays per month just scanning through the last 6 months or so. There seems to be a good number of days where the plays spiked - up to around 20-odd plays on a particular day otherwises it’s more like 0 - 5 plays a day.
I’ve never paid much attention to their charts either. SC regularly tells me I have several songs in the charts on whatever day it is i’m logged in (usually when I’m uploading something new). That seems to be fairly usual. I’ve also had a few at #1 spot in past years in whatever chart, but sadly I’m still impoverished so I can only conclude that SC chart success clearly amounts to nothing in REAL terms! They also have this “Soundclick Top 50” and “Soundclick Top 100” tags of which I have plenty, but I’m still not rich and famous! What’s going on??
I suspect that you wouldn’t be able to quit the day job with a #1 on the billboard chart
In fact, I know someone who wrote a UK Christmas #1 which is generally A BIG DEAL sales-wise, and while it probably bought him his house, he’s still a long way off swanning about on the Riviera.
I remember sitting at a table eating lunch and a road manager runs up to the table “Guys you just made a debut in billboards top 40 ! Time to celebrate”
Everyone at the table just sighed and the band leader said “It will still be 3 months until we get any money, and this lunch, these hotels, airfare, 3 managers, X band members - all will come out of our checks…”
That was the beginning… of the end… well… … just … well…
I guess there were OTHER perks - not that it mattered to a teenage roadie just taggin along cause his exotic dancer/aunt was shaked up with the bandleader