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For a musician with such a small audience, this is pretty meaningless, but as a stats nerd it’s kind of interesting to track the popularity of my recordings. Here are the current on line results to the end of 2024:

What I can observe is that the “niche” songs that can be marketed to a specific audience (Yukoners, surf music lovers, power pop fans, 60s retro, etc.) can generate views more easily than a general rock song like “Fooling Yourself”. Videos that pop up in “suggested” algorithms, or in response to associated searches (e.g. “Yukon Rafting”) do well. “The Bad Man” benefited immensely from a “suggested” youtube algorithm, piling up all of its views within a first week, while streaming will take longer to occur.

 “What? Why?” leads in Bandcamp simply because it’s the first track on the album, and “MAP” is correspondingly in second place as the second track; listeners are giving the album a try, then fading out after a few songs. Interesting that Apple Music has pushed “MAP” and “Fully Committed” way more than the others, for some reason.

I’d note that “I’m Coming Over Tonight” had the benefit of being the first release and had a lot of friends and co-workers tuning in simply because of the novelty of me actually making a record; together with the “live band performance” video from 2018, the two versions combined would rank #2 overall.

All of the songs from #21 onwards are non-album tracks, and they will get a boost when I pull them into an album and push that. #27 and #30 are one-offs, while #31 and 32 will be released as singles in 2025.

I’d like to get more Spotify streams, because that shows an ongoing interest in the song, whereas the youtube videos tend to get watched once or twice only. Despite there being no money to be made from this (I make about $0.50 per month!), overall it’s nice to have made 20,000 musical impressions on the world!