Monday's Listening To This Week's Playlists have been really successful and continue to grow and grow. They have breathed new life into IDHAS and widened its audience considerably, also adding a younger following to the mix.
They bring artists to the fore who are not releasing albums for one reason or another. A sort of celebration of the single song. More recently, they have achieved our second aim more and that is reviewing resulting albums from those artists. The future seems bright for the Playlist.
Five weeks ago, we added a Mixcloud version of the same playlist. It was done to provide a continuous listen and allow further listening opportunities for the artists. It was always going to be a short trial and although it was gaining an audience, we have decided to end it for now,
We are not naive, we knew it would take time to grow, but we just feel that to do this, it would take more and more time away from what we essentially do, which is concentrate on reviews. Listening To This Week takes a lot of work with listening, curating and tagging etc. To add more work would detract from our main aims. It had become harder and harder to make time for reviews.
We will still use Mixcloud for Pre Release Specials and Live Sessions. Listening To This Week surprised us with how accepted it has become. It will remain as it has always been. I do hope you understand.
Don.
................................................
No comments:
Post a Comment