The Listening To This Week Playlist will appear as normal tomorrow. However, for the first time in over two years, we will not be posting one on the 24 March. Artists submitting songs should just note that the earliest that their song would appear will be 31 March.
After an altercation with an artist, we felt that we could do with a rest from it for a week. This will allow us to focus on reviews for the rest of the month. The LTTW Playlist will continue as usual here, it does what we want to do, provide an avenue for artists without Albums or EPs and provide opportunities for Album Reviews from artists that we wouldn't always naturally discover ourselves.
Moving forward, we are also looking at opportunities to provide a further audience for it via alternative places. This might be a stand alone or linked playlist or the likes of appearing on You Tube or such. It is too late in our almost 9 year life to make it a Spotify playlist, not that we ever would want to anyway.
We are not sensitive souls, we were just surprised to wake to this this morning from an artist with just over a hundred followers. They were actually tagged on Social Media.
"ARTISTS: Please note this is a "blog playlist". They don't do any blog write-ups, and no playlisting. It seems they just post a link to your song in the middle of a large disconnected post. Readers/listeners must manually go through the entire thing clicking on each song individually to hear it. As far as I can tell, we didn't get any measurable results from this. They didn't even post our socials or any other assets we provided. Just an FYI--probably best to go to a blogger or a playlister, but "blog playlist" is neither of those things."
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Whomever this artist is, they obviously do not read, or know anything, about, the I Don't Hear A Single blog. I hope you apologized for trying to give his music some exposure. How dare you!!!
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