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Yes, you are right about the numbers. So would I enjoy making music with a defined goal? My type of personality needs a challenge. Also, once you are charting in the Hot 100 that creates opportunity and bring rewards that can take a person to the next level. If I am going to play I am playing...

So I am trying to define how many plays are needed and the data is quite easy to get. Karol G & Feid have a song called Verano Rosa that is a new entry to the charts and Number 96 on the Hot 100, I go have a look at Spotify and it shows 20,701,258 plays on Spotify. Corey Kent has a song...

There is lots of artificial promotion and playment fraud going on. Someone was caught and went to jail after racking up US$10M in royalties from Spotify. It is often done with AI generated music so it is fake songs from fake artists. There is a whole industry based on it in Bangladesh and...

The most potent "sales" in terms of the charts these days are song sales through the iTunes store. Streaming needs much bigger numbers.

I am not seeing the "big money" on promotion you speak of. You only need sales of about 9,000 songs to break into the Hot 100. So if one of my artists takes a few years to build up 100,000 Instagram followers and releases a good song with a modest amount of paid promotion (maybe $20k/song) to...

The most thoughtful response I have had thus far. I have plotted that my journey will probably involve working with labels. I have had artists I produced get record deals and release the material I produced. I even brokered the deals for some of them. I have seen the Billie and Finneas...

I totally agree with you IF your aim is to make a full time living put of music. I have a passive income based on house rentals and share dividends that provide more money than a player twice as good as me could make from playing in a covers band etc. My focus is entirely on the Billboard Hot...

I want to put together a new computer for Cubase. I am using Windows because have a a considerable amount of interface (RME FireFace 800) and camera equipment using FireWire that is no longer supported by Apple but I can easily get a PCIe FireWire card for a Windows computer. So my questions...

Yes. I also have to be willing to go to court to enforce the contracts. Taking legal action against young female artists is such a bad vibe. I have done it and everyone, including the judge, treated me as the bad guy. The girl dumped a huge pile of money on a snake of a lawyer. We settled...

Colt Capperrune and other say they produce 150 songs per year. I find I can do 3 songs as a batch in a 10 day session. So this would give me very little time off. I have not gone full time yet so I have no idea if I can sustain it. I find my biggest cause of lost time is people cancelling on...

That is probably the most interesting question so far. This is what I was looking for. Do I have to factor in getting a record deal in my artist development plan? In doing so will I end up being cut out of the loop as the producer? Finneas still produces for Billie Eilish. I have been...

I am a Cubase 13 on Windows 10 user. I have a RME FireFace audio interface using FireWire to connect to a FireWire PCIe card in the computer. Finding a bunch of old invoices is not feasible as I am not likely to have kept them.

You really need to have a look at a Jim Lill YouTube on: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Microphone?

I have a Universal Audio PCIe card but I am worried about installing the plugins. The problem is there are about 20 I am licensed for but the software packages installs everything. I am sick of trying to remember which plugins I own and not choose ones that go into demo mode. I know this is...

True, but they get stale. The established artists get fewer hits per year. It is the nature of the business to be looking for the next fresh sound. I don't see it as an insurmountable challenge.

Yes, and I have done the numbers. I don't believe it is a closed shop or a rigged game. I understand sales of 9,000 units in a week will break into the charts but I am not sure what that is in streams. The bar is not unattainably high. Quality product, an artist who has developed a following...

Interesting assumption. I don't care about day to day income. I have investments for that. What I care about is Billboard Hot 100 Hits. That generates income. No need to be paid for a single hour of studio time, just the streaming income, lives shows etc. would pay very well.

Everyone is bringing valid points and I am learning from your diverse perspectives. As for the "playing the lottery" thing, I think I have done the numbers and if you focus on pop music that could chart, produce 100 contending songs per year, at least you have 'valid tickets' to win that...

As for the "pure promotion" part, I don't hear much in the Billboard Hot 100 that shouldn't be there. Even it is only there because it is part of a movie sound track, the song passed a lot of gatekeepers to get to that point. Yes, it is 4 or 5 years of full time work for little remuneration...

I am a home studio owner and producer with a goal of getting songs into the Billboard Hot 100. To date I have had modest success with artists I have worked with. Here are the raw statistics: There are about 10,000 songs added on Spotify every day. Source: Uploaded to Spotify daily. So this...