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SAGEGREEN86s
I'm a HIPHOP DJ and producer from Japan known as SAGEGREEN. My unique approach to music production involves incorporating vinyl DJ play with sample flips and playing multiple instruments to create captivating and innovative soundscapes.

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I got 100 million plays… and 20 monthly listeners

Posted by SAGEGREEN86s - 19 hours ago

So here’s a fun little paradox.


Over the past few months, my beats have been used in a ton of YouTube Shorts. Not on my channel, of course, other people’s. The total views? Over 100 million.

Yes. Million with an “M.”

And yet... my Spotify monthly listeners? A humble 20. Not 20K. Just 20. Like, two basketball teams.

Apparently, the music is popular, but the guy who made it? Not so much.


So I’m turning to you wise folks of Newgrounds:

How do I turn all this anonymous clout into actual fans?

How do I connect the dots between “people enjoying my music” and “people knowing I exist”?

If you’ve got advice, strategies, or even just sympathy, I’m all ears.


Even better if it comes with memes.

Love,


SAGEGREEN

(beats that slap, popularity that naps)

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SAGEGREEN86s

In a beautiful twist of fate (or a cosmic joke), my Newgrounds fan count has magically aligned with my Spotify monthly listeners.
It’s like the universe looked at my stats and said,
"Yeah, twenty sounds about right."
I guess I’ve reached the rare status of being consistently unknown across platforms.

At this point, I might start offering personalized thank-you notes to each one.
They deserve it. They’ve achieved what marketing teams dream of: perfect brand consistency in obscurity.

LRCoolMusic

I guess, think about why someone would watch a youtube short with your music but not sub to your music channel. What is it about the shorts that use it that make them popular? What kind of content does it get paired with? Can you build a presence that aligns with that and gives people something to interact with?

Clearly the music is good. But this suggests it is an ingredient in a product that is successful (maybe the most important ingredient) but not the successful product itself.

So I'd say rationally it's either find a way to make the music successful as a standalone product (how to market it, do you need more of a face, more of a presence, more parasociality, whatever), or find a way to rip off whatever is getting those other people views and use your music as an amplifier for that.

SAGEGREEN86s

Thank you. this is exactly the kind of perspective I needed.

You're right: my music seems to work really well as part of something bigger, but I haven't put much thought into what it's being paired with or why it works there. It’s probably time I stop treating the music like it exists in a vacuum and start understanding the whole context.

I think your two suggestions are spot on.
Either I make the music itself more “complete” in how I present it, maybe by adding a visual identity, a face, or some kind of narrative around it, or I embrace what’s already working and build around that.

I appreciate you taking the time to break this down so clearly. It’s given me a lot to think about—and a clearer sense of where to go from here.

Yatsufusa

While I could say some stuff about YT, in the end, this is a YT-issue. Your best bet to improve the situation would be to approach their (YT-)community forums (if they still have those) and ask the people there how to capitalize better on your... "asymmetric fame".

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