Welcome To July!
You may have noticed that we've been a bit quieter through the last couple of weeks. There is a reason for that. We are used to seeing 200,000 views per month and can handle that, but June went crazy. There were 700,000 views in the month. It is brilliant that there is so much interest in new music, but that amount of views leads to a massive amount to deal with behind the scenes. Through answering messages and emails and the increased submissions.
It has coincided with my real life work being extremely busy. It is Sports related and the World Cup has brought challenges there. So I've tried to calm things down a little. Hence missing a Listening To This Week Playlist this week and the Reviews being a little lighter. I have a week's leave next week which means the catch up will be thorough.
Some of you may know that it is I Don't Hear A Single's 10th Anniversary on 19 July. It is the longest that I've stayed with anything music wise and I'm proud of what we have achieved. It was planned to have a week of Live Sessions, some are already in, but the surge has left us lots to do on that score and it makes sense to plan that for later in the year in September. We will mark the anniversary with a simple Thanks post.
We are not going anywhere, it's just that the volume has caught us off guard and we need to get back on track. Where we are now to where we began in July 2016 is amazing and a testament to the new and underappreciated artists that we cover. I don't expect another month like July, it seems like an outlier, and it has been so pleasing to see older Reviews come to the fore again.
This is just an explanation of where we are currently at and a thank you for all the support that we get.
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