Playlisting

 

The latest Listening To This Week Playlist is curated and will be out tomorrow morning. We just have to embed the songs. For the curious, the Spotify version is already up. I just wanted to make a point after a strange submission this week.

We are fiercely independent and guard it with vigour. Our choices for LTTW are our own choices. We get a lot of submissions for the playlist. The choices are own, music that we particularly like and narrowing it down to 25 choices or so takes a lot of work.

The track order also needs thought. We try to get it to flow and not put similar genres too much together. It will always major on Guitar Pop, but will also try to show the varied tastes that we have. We never expected it to be so popular, because it was intended as a small diversion from Album Reviews.

A submission this week was a a fairly good song, But the band requested that if we wanted promotion to their Social Media followers, it should be placed in the first 3 songs on LTTW. It was immediately declined and we were aghast.

No inducement is ever accepted here. We accept none. We only encourage artists to provide social media details to help themselves and the other artists on the playlist. The Social Media tagging takes up way too much time, we could be listening to more music, but it helps the artists.

We are not Spotify fans in any way. We don't listen to submissions on Spotify and only put a version of the playlist there to help the artists, because the artists kept asking for it. We also insist on a link to either Bandcamp, Soundcloud or You Tube to allow the IDHAS focus on the playlist to be non Spotify.

I recall one idiot who I gave a poor review too many years ago, spreading the rumour that we get a kickback from Bandcamp. Rubbish of course. We major on Bandcamp simply because it allows listeners to hear more of an artist's work and most importantly, the option to buy. 

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