The success of Listening To This Week has absolutely gobsmacked us. It was only ever intended to be a way of giving non album singles a chance as primarily what we are is a Review site. But its popularity has caught us by surprise.
It is a fair bit of work as about 400 songs a week are listened to in deciding the 30 that go on the playlist, but it has added a whole new additional audience to IDHAS. With this in mind, we are going to extend it further to include Mixcloud.
After Monday's Playlist is posted, the plan will proceed and begin with the weekly playlist from Monday 22 July. The Mixcloud mix will be in the same order as the normal Playlist, but will give artists another chance of being listened to and all the songs will be together for one listen without having to open individual songs.
We obviously deal with the songs in all ways, but all stream. However artists will be given the opportunity to provide a download for Mixcloud. If some artists don't wish to do this or don't reply, we will proceed with an edit that has those who wish to do so.
We need the download because we have to upload the playlist ourselves. The original playlist will appear on Monday morning as always. With the Mixcloud version going up later that evening. It is extra work, but we have always been solely about getting artists a bit of attention and so this adds to that.
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