
antispatula
Active member
It has always bothered me that people think that having a hundred thousand friends on myspace is going to make them huge celebrities, and that maybe if they download an automatic friend adder and get 500 friends a day, within no time they're bound to be famous!
Take this hoe for example:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=466959
She has over 3,000 plays today. That's more than lots of big-label bands....yet she SUCKS SO BAD.
She has a quarter of a million friends. She has thousands of plays a day. Yet we all know she doesn't have many fans and doesn't sell lots of cd's, and people don't go to her shows, if she even ever does them.
I'm not ripping on myspace, I've got one, and think it's a great tool. But people don't get how useless a million friends can be. I've got only 300. I know and talk to a pretty big percentage of them, lots and lots are local people that live within 1 or 2 hours from my town.
I think a better way to understand how many of your "friends" are really fans of your music is to take the number of plays you have and divide it by your ammount of friends.
The profile I linked to above, even though got 3,000 plays today, only had a 1.2% playrate.
Just my two cents. Anyone agree/disagree?
Take this hoe for example:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=466959
She has over 3,000 plays today. That's more than lots of big-label bands....yet she SUCKS SO BAD.
She has a quarter of a million friends. She has thousands of plays a day. Yet we all know she doesn't have many fans and doesn't sell lots of cd's, and people don't go to her shows, if she even ever does them.
I'm not ripping on myspace, I've got one, and think it's a great tool. But people don't get how useless a million friends can be. I've got only 300. I know and talk to a pretty big percentage of them, lots and lots are local people that live within 1 or 2 hours from my town.
I think a better way to understand how many of your "friends" are really fans of your music is to take the number of plays you have and divide it by your ammount of friends.
The profile I linked to above, even though got 3,000 plays today, only had a 1.2% playrate.
Just my two cents. Anyone agree/disagree?