Originally Posted By: camp_band
Can social media be used to popularize your music? Do you need to have a huge following to get noticed?


Can?? I'm 72 so I'm not making fun or age jokes. I'm in the SoCal area and do a lot of gigging, not a full time pro but still active musically. Most places won't even consider you for a gig without giving them all your social media contacts so they can check you out, especially the number of followers. They want to know you can bring in a crowd. And they want videos, lots of videos. Vids give them an idea of your stage presentation and how you sound live. Recordings are fake compared to live performances.

If you're not doing live gigs then sure, post stuff on Soundcloud or YouTube for a start along with oh I don't know 50 million others. Actually I think it's more than that, don't they have something like 200-300 million users? YouTube is almost a billion I think. Not sure but who's counting?

Therefore, I think the answers to these two questions are OF COURSE and YES, DEFINITELY.

Bob

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