A ponder
Well, it's almost a year on Youtube now, and I've been thinking about what I've achieved so far. In my opinion, not very much. In relation to lots of others, the Youtube progress is probably quite good, but not as far as my aspirations are concerned. I'm only about 250 subscribers outside the top 100 UK musicians of all time. That appears to be great, but it's not supported me financially at all.
Basically, I'm a singer/songwriter. I write what I consider to be good songs, and that's been backed up by good friends and industry professionals. I realise that at the age of 42, I'm no spring chicken. So I'm not aiming to be a performer. The obvious path is to be a songwriter, and then promote my songs to signed bands. In the hope that they would want to record some of my material. It doesn't matter what age you are. As long as you write good songs that people will want to sing.
This all came about from seeing the Jonathan ross show yesterday evening. The main guest was Neil Diamond. This is a man that started out as a songwriter. Writing such classics as "I'm a believer", which was made famous by "The Monkees". I'd be more than happy with 1 percent of Neil's success. Neil is someone that my vocals have been strongly compared to.
So I'm not throwing in the towel yet. It's true that the longer you make an effort. The more credible you become to the music industry. The more songs you write, the bigger the chance of someone picking one of them up. I've written and recorded over 100 songs, but I've only made about 20 of them public. At this very moment I'm writing another new one!
Here's some advice for aspiring songwriters. Don't ever give up. It might come to nothing, but at least if you try. You'll know whether you could have made it or not. That's much better than not knowing at all, and looking back and wondering what if?
If you don't have good financial backing, then it can be a massive sacrifice. You can get to the stage where you have virtually nothing. If you are determined enough then you will not let that affect your efforts.
I'm going to finish this post with a link to my Youtube channel, and the latest YT statistics.
Here is my channel. You can listen to some of my original songs there.
My Subscribers = 621
My Channel views are 13,352
My Total video views are 195,657
I'm going to be recording some of my new song today, so I'll be enjoying that.
Until next time :)
