Having said that, they are pretty good for listeners. Someone in Thai radio picked up on mellotronworks (yes, Thai radio) via LastFM and put together a radio show based around it. Downloads from the web site shot up dramatically from that point onwards. A similar thing happened with a chap in Finland - he found me via LastFM. Pity I speak neither Thai nor Finnish. I have a lingering fear that I've been labelled as 'prog fucking rock' without knowing it. (I have embellished description that a mere tad)
I have a SoundCloud account too and that doesn't get anywhere near the same 'coverage'.
Mike
markpringnz wrote:
For the last few weeks I have been listening to Last FM, hearing lots of music from the 60's to 90's I have not heard before. Quite a lot of it seems very good, most of what I have heard would have made very little for the artists concerned, whilst a lot of music which seems very poor to me made millions. It's odd and somewhat depressing. I suspect most of the artists concerned woud have preferred to be rich. I note that Mike is on LastFm and so am I, Mike has more listeners so far!