Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Statistics -Song Plays
550 song plays on Bandizmo!
I’ve now hit 550 song plays on Bandizmo.com. Most popular - “Little Man”, over 100 plays alone. Just in the time since I added some stat counters to the site around October 21st of this year, the mp3’s linked to on the main page - “Speak Forgiveness,” “As We Bow Down,” “Empty Air,” and “Bullfrog, You Don’t Know” have garnered over a dozen plays each, directly from the website.
So I’m not quite convinced that the counters are working correctly on Reverb Nation. They had me stuck at 87 plays for a long time, then it started creeping up again, at 91 the last I checked - the same songs, each uploaded at the same time as on Bandizmo. Granted, Reverb Nation has a lot more widely-known, commercially recorded bands and singers and a fewer percentage of home-studio recordings, but still, it doesn’t seem quite right that I’m actually getting six times the airplay on a site with a lot fewer features and not near the slickness. Either the count’s not working correctly or the song search methodology on Reverb Nation is just wrong for increasing the number of song plays. As I’ve sent to the gurus of Reverb Nation (without an answer), I think it’s because RN only assigns categories or song types to the ARTIST, instead of letting you assign a category and sub-catergory to each SONG like Bandizmo does. Somebody looking for “blues” or “country” probably isn’t going to find “Bullfrog You Don’t Know” or “Empty Air” on Reverb Nation since I’m listed as a “Christian contemporary/gospel” artist; but if I put myself down as a “blues” or “folk” artist, they may never look me up for a contemporary worship song. If you’re looking for the SONG category, on the other hand, you’re a lot more likely to stumble upon my songs on Bandizmo. 550 vs. 91 song plays. Proof.
By the way, they’ve blocked all “social networking” and music-streaming sites at work, which is mostly where I was listening to either Bandizmo or ReverbNation before. I’m usually working on my own music if I’m in front of the computer at home. So it doesn’t mean I chose to abandon you as a fan, but I’m personally not adding much to anyone’s song plays on either site. Would if I could.