I haven't checked my LastFM page in a while. They fell out of favour
with me when they removed the ability to embed tracks in web pages,
which cost me a substantial amount of my web site; I now have to upload
tracks there, rather than manage them all from LastFM.
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:
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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!
