All right, so let me explain about two months back I would make memes and post them on my page to be honest the memes was me trolling other people who I was into with for whatever reason , but then the meme started to go viral. My Instagram. Growth exploded, so I started to post more of the memes as my page continues to grow. I’m wondering if I’m getting too far away from the music but in my defense all of the memes include my music, in some way

So in my business communication class we were talking about PowerPoint in I thought about it, the same concept applies to content creation. It’s a process called aim The first step is to identify the audience the second step is identify the the information The third step is planning the message the final step is the message If anyone would like more details, just let me know

I wanted to break down with a "major label" release looks like. Let me start with a disclaimer, as I'm not actually signed with a label, but I wanted to treat the release and the budget as if I was. . I'll start with the context, my best performing song that I've been working over the last 2 years was something I wanted to find a "reason" to push again, so I decided to repackage a bunch of tracks I've released and a few more filler tracks to make it a complete album. I know y'all might have very specific questions so feel free to ask away in the comments! RESULTS (after 10 days of release) : - Billboard in Time Square https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXqGMZDo8D/ - Charted #28 iTunes R&B album sales - 13 Spotify Editorials for lead song "Lucky" - Went from 60k to ~400k monthly listeners in 3 weeks - Approx. 3 millions streams in the last month There's going to be 4 main parts I'd cover: Asset Creation Pre-release strategy Release strategy Post-release (2 weeks after release) Asset Creation (Budget approx. $5k) - 12 songs, 1 "lead song", 3 other singles, 5-6 album songs ~$4k of recording equipment/studio time/misc. (but spread through 2-3 years) - Album artwork (Front, Back), Spotify Banner, Studio Rental ~1k Admittedly, this portion of the album can be significantly higher or lower, the $4k budget realistically is me doing 85% things "in house" (mixing, production etc.) and the rest is paying features/booking time when my own setup wouldn't cut it. Pre-release strategy (Approx. <$200) I'm not a big believer in big pre-release strategies as I don't think you need them to have a successful campaign. Admittedly, I find it challenging to time things/build momentum by announcing a project so far ahead in advance from the release date. Instagram Conversion Ads from pixeled Instagram users (mostly as a test to see how it would do) $200 I announced a pre-save campaign on Jan 2. 2023, and had the album was to be released in Jan 13th. It led to a toneden link I created that was basically a hyperfollow from distrokid to "save" the album.

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I've been thinking about getting a website, I feel like this would be a great investment for me as independent artist in the long run. I feel like it's best to rely on a website over social media apps. I would love to get ya'll opinion on this.