The General Dilemma?
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:22 am
Hi Fellow Passengers,
just got listing results for 5 tracks I submitted to listing S210824WS
TRADITIONAL-Sounding WORLD MUSIC SONGS in a FOREIGN LANGUAGE (no English) with Male or Female Vocals are needed by a well-known Indie Label.
First of all, cheers to screener 374 who forwarded one track!
The other 4 were returned.
Reason for 3 returns was the missing link to a specific region which was asked for.
One return was with regard to a dated sounding pad. Since that tune was produced +5 years ago, that is acceptable.
Frankly, I cannot relate to the reasons for which 3 songs were returned - the missing link to a region - whereas a fourth song, which, imho, has the same distance or closeness to my region, was forwarded.
For your reference, here is the playlist that includes all 5 songs. Would be interesting if any of you can find out what the forward was and which songs miss the regionality
Playlist of my tracks for listing S210824WS
In the past weeks and months I already pondered the question, how much the chances of getting forwards decreases with rising number of members - and consequently rising number of submissions.
Don't get me wrong, the Taxi business model still is a chance for aspiring musicians to get deals. No accusations involved.
I guess it is also in the nature of business that customers asks for a selection of a defined number of tracks to be forwarded. And if 10 tracks are asked for and 100 are submitted, your chance of getting a forward is 10%. If 1K tracks are submitted, there is just 1% chance left.
The screener himself has his job and the difficult task to sort out this 1% - or more or less- and I have no doubt that he or she will listen to a huge bunch of good tracks. And sort out just a tiny percentage of the good ones which he regards as best-fitting. Tough job, imho.
With rising membership and submission-numbers the dilemma increases!
And, just in case, you are like me and cannot define the three tracks with missing link to my region this would strengthen my impression.
My tracks (all together) regularly generate monthly 7 figure stream counts in the stores, so they shouldn't be too far away from marketability. But that doesn't show here in my listing results in an appropriate way, which makes me reflect, whether or not this is the right place for me.
I've discovered myself questioning each listing and each track before I submit and ask myself, what the next reason for a return could be with regard to this particular listing and song. And consequently I submit less and less. And still the reasons for returns surprise me. Sometimes I do understand them and learn from them. But most of the times I don't really :-/
I keep track of each and every submission with each comment and each screener to learn. And I have to say, some critique points are consistent.
And, to avoid misunderstandings, I do appreciate your work, screeners. I'm sure you do your very best!
What I'm not so sure of is the fact, if we are in a business opportunity or in a lottery.....just my 5 cents.
Sorry for the long rant. Looking forward to your thoughts.
just got listing results for 5 tracks I submitted to listing S210824WS
TRADITIONAL-Sounding WORLD MUSIC SONGS in a FOREIGN LANGUAGE (no English) with Male or Female Vocals are needed by a well-known Indie Label.
First of all, cheers to screener 374 who forwarded one track!
The other 4 were returned.
Reason for 3 returns was the missing link to a specific region which was asked for.
One return was with regard to a dated sounding pad. Since that tune was produced +5 years ago, that is acceptable.
Frankly, I cannot relate to the reasons for which 3 songs were returned - the missing link to a region - whereas a fourth song, which, imho, has the same distance or closeness to my region, was forwarded.
For your reference, here is the playlist that includes all 5 songs. Would be interesting if any of you can find out what the forward was and which songs miss the regionality
Playlist of my tracks for listing S210824WS
In the past weeks and months I already pondered the question, how much the chances of getting forwards decreases with rising number of members - and consequently rising number of submissions.
Don't get me wrong, the Taxi business model still is a chance for aspiring musicians to get deals. No accusations involved.
I guess it is also in the nature of business that customers asks for a selection of a defined number of tracks to be forwarded. And if 10 tracks are asked for and 100 are submitted, your chance of getting a forward is 10%. If 1K tracks are submitted, there is just 1% chance left.
The screener himself has his job and the difficult task to sort out this 1% - or more or less- and I have no doubt that he or she will listen to a huge bunch of good tracks. And sort out just a tiny percentage of the good ones which he regards as best-fitting. Tough job, imho.
With rising membership and submission-numbers the dilemma increases!
And, just in case, you are like me and cannot define the three tracks with missing link to my region this would strengthen my impression.
My tracks (all together) regularly generate monthly 7 figure stream counts in the stores, so they shouldn't be too far away from marketability. But that doesn't show here in my listing results in an appropriate way, which makes me reflect, whether or not this is the right place for me.
I've discovered myself questioning each listing and each track before I submit and ask myself, what the next reason for a return could be with regard to this particular listing and song. And consequently I submit less and less. And still the reasons for returns surprise me. Sometimes I do understand them and learn from them. But most of the times I don't really :-/
I keep track of each and every submission with each comment and each screener to learn. And I have to say, some critique points are consistent.
And, to avoid misunderstandings, I do appreciate your work, screeners. I'm sure you do your very best!
What I'm not so sure of is the fact, if we are in a business opportunity or in a lottery.....just my 5 cents.
Sorry for the long rant. Looking forward to your thoughts.
