I did back in 2022. I sold a few, maybe ~9. But that was after spending a lot of time in Twitter spaces every day for about 7 months. I didn't have the funds to offer excellent utility like the small few successful people were offering. There were a small few people who did very well with NFTs but most people didn't do well -- not even those who were able to offer some great utility. I made a few friends and check in with them to see if anything has picked up. They say it's not improving. It was mostly musicians buying from other musicians -- which almost became a trade. And then, a few whale collectors who bought hoping for resale value. But they only bought from musicians who had already made a name for themselves. It is tough to onboard the public into a new market. But give it a go. It's another way to try to make money and we need lots of those! Good luck.

@Chris York Everyone was saying the same thing 2 years ago. Since then, they've built out players and store fronts, but it still hasn't worked. Major artists from all genres (even some legendary superstars) have minted music NFTs. Snoop, Imogen Heap, Grimes, Kings of Leon, Jay Z, 3LAU, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Nas, Eminem, even Whitney Houston's estate! It didn't change anything. 2021 everyone was talking about it. Mid-2022, all the buzz died down. I got in as it was dying. Many of the music gurus I listen to think the ship has sailed for Music NFTs. Web3 may still be useful for things like all access passes, fan clubs, etc. The public is used to getting music for free and that's the biggest hurdle we face. Convincing them to (a) pay a large amount for ONE song and (b) start using crypto (which they consider risky in the first place) to do it -- that's very tough! My demographic is older. Many of them lived in the age of buying CDs, even vinyl. Yet today, they listen to music for free on YouTube! Some have Spotify or Apple Music. Every once in a while, I run into someone who has Amazon Music. That's depressing. They don't know how very little we make from those platforms. Educating them isn't easy. My biggest challenge -- which may be the same for most of us -- is getting someone to listen to my music the first time. If they listen, they like it. But how do I get that first listen? I'm still trying to come up with the magic formula for that. But ... if I can get them to listen, many *will* buy a CD or merch or even vinyl because they want to support me -- even if they can't play the CD, they want to support me, so they grab one. Everyone loves getting something tangible in the mail so many happily send me photos of themselves with my CDs. I spoil them and throw in keychains, buttons, magnets, stickers -- something extra they weren't expecting. For most, that excites them. I have a small few who buy a T-shirt or a hat or grab a mug to wear just for the photo.

Yes! One of my songs was written for an indie movie back in the early 90s so when I got back into music a couple of years ago, I really hoped to have more success. So far, one song has been placed in a TV show and some songs have made it into music libraries and may be in upcoming Christmas productions (if nothing goes wrong). My music has been forwarded for other opportunities as well that I'm hoping might go through but you never really know until it happens.

@Mo L this happened to me. One of my songs got onto one of the Distrokid playlists in the fall of 2022. Next thing I knew, it was on a botted playlist. Something like WavrAI. I searched for them and found reports they were bots. So I contacted them through their website and they took it down immediately. I was actually impressed with their cooperation. I never thought about it again. Then suddenly in January of 2024, I logged into Distrokid and they gave me a first warning that some of my streams were artificial. I have never bought a stream or done any kind of promotion like that. So I contacted them and got an autoresponder type reply. I was pretty annoyed that they weren’t giving me a way to defend myself. So I contacted Spotify. They looked up my account and said there were no problems and this is something Distrokid is doing, not them. I wrote back to Distrokid. Heard nothing. Then I logged into Distrokid and they gave me a second warning. This time, it showed me the name of the song. And sure enough it was the song that was on that playlist back in October 2022. A year and a half later? Well it’s not even a song with a lot of streams so I was like what the hell is going on? Of course I wrote to them, but once again, got what seemed like an autoresponder reply. I contacted Spotify. Once again, they told me there’s nothing wrong and I needed to address this with Distrokid. Great but Distrokid doesn’t respond. So the next thing I knew, I logged into Distrokid and got a notice they had taken that song down because it had artificial streams. They said I’d have to upload it again with a different ISRC. That song only has about 20k streams but I didn’t want to have to start all over again. I contacted Distrokid and of course, got an autoresponder response. This is one of the lowest streamed of my songs. It’s a piano version of another song. So I don’t care that much about it other than trying to get it in sync but I want it up there in case it lands a sync.

@Mo L I hadn't had an issue with DistroKid either until that happened. I'm not happy with them now though. I'm actually considering CD Baby. They've been around forever. Plus, you pay once and your music is up forever. They take a percentage but streaming pays so little, what does it matter?