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Five (5) Things You Must Know As An Upcoming Artiste

Five (5) Things You Must Know As An Upcoming Artiste

When people are starting up in life, there are certain things they must never fail to do. Starting from the bottom and climbing to the top is not easy so when you are nonchalant about it, it is usually even more difficult.

 

I got inspired to do this because, a lot of upcoming artiste have sent their songs for review on our website, and instead of enjoying what I do, it becomes hard work. The impression I get is that of un-seriousness and in the process I am tempted to just trash.

When a site says they want to promote your songs for free, it doesn’t mean that there is no standard. There actually is, so don’t start complaining when your song is not published.

Things you must never forget;

  1. Song Details – you upload your song to our site so it can be promoted for free and you don’t do all the necessary. You upload a song without adding your cover album, how are we supposed to approve that type of file? The job becomes difficult because instead of just reviewing your song and publishing, we are looking for you to send complete details. That’s bad. An impatient person will simply trash it.

 

  1. Background – I intentionally separated this from Song Details. Your background is simply some personal information about you. You are upcoming, so it is assumed little or nobody knows what you have or who you are. You put up only your stage name. Huh? Who are you, where are you from, what’s your style? For example Wizkid is Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun. Who are you? This helps people from your origin to also identify with you, or your classmates and course mates from school. This also helps us with our review of you.

Five (5) Things You Must Know As An Upcoming Artiste

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  1. Quality: This one cannot be over-emphasized. If the quality of your production is poor or the graphics for the cover album is poor. We cannot publish. You cannot do everything by yourself, get help. Also get people who can constructively criticize what you’ve done. Plus people won’t even want to view you if we put you up. People, will be like “who the hell is this wanna be” and that’s not good for a start.

 

  1. Profile: hmmmmmm, I search for you and I can’t find you on any social platform because, firstly, I don’t know your actual name. Even when I find you I am not sure it is you. Haba na! There is no image of you on your IG, the cover photo of the song you want to promote is not even there. No slight bio on you, no email, nothing. If you don’t help yourself, how can we help you? Plus people should have an idea of what you do on your bio, and it should be the same on all of your platform. It makes it easier for someone to find you. It also shows that you are professional and you mean business.

 

  1. Creativity – if you are not creative, find someone who is. Let people see something new in what you do. Improve on any existing thing, that’s the trick, because nothing is exactly new. From the production of your beats to the cover album and even the brand you want to create, make sure to improve on the existing thing. That’s the number trick on how to rise to the top. People will say, “na this thing be this na, but it is somehow different. There’s something new.” That something new, that something different is what makes you ‘blow’.

You should also read this; 9 Steps to become a Successful Music Artiste in Nigeria

Below are a few examples of songs we’ve published and their links

Arike - Richy Mac (Prod. by NeXus)

See link: Arike – Richy Mac (Prod. by NeXus)

See link: Gimme That – King Gaya Ft Gbasky (Prod by Echo)

This can be applied to any other thing you want to do…this is beyond music. I’m outta here.

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Anna Abu

I am many things. A Writer, Producer, Publicity Manager, Blogger, Entrepreneur. I will be more as the year passes. I am a blunt realist coated with imperfection.

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