THE HI54 HOT 95, EH | <1000 MONTHLY LISTENERS
In the same spirit that led to me starting my weekly updated YOUR WEEKLY 9(to)5 EH playlist (ie. remembering that I enjoy listening to & sharing music I’ve already liked/shared and I don’t always need to be searching for & sharing “new” stuff), I had the thought of filtering the massive “liked” songs collection I’ve accumulated on Spotify by the amount of monthly listeners each artist has. Spotify does not make this sorting easy, but, us music bloggers have a tendency to just put some tunes in the headphones and power through overwhelming tasks that literally nobody was asking us to do in the first place on a regular basis. It’s kind of our thing.
Now, I have not organized my entire “liked” library yet, but, I have organized enough of it that I was able to put together ongoing ‘95 tracks from 95 different music projects’ playlists for the following monthly listener counts: Less Than 100, Less Than 1000, Less than 10k, Greater Than 10k, Greater Than 100k, and Greater Than 1 Million (links go to Spotify for now, but I will be creating similar blog posts as this one for each playlist over the next few weeks).
Going forward into whatever hellscape 2022 provides for us, I will continue to sort my “liked” music into these ‘listener buckets’ and continue to add new artists/tracks to these playlists (while removing songs from the bottom to keep everything at an even 95, because, despite the fact that I know we all tend to listen to playlists on shuffle, you can also listen to HI54 playlists from top-to-bottom like a big-ass giant mix cd because I am a sicko like that + also the 95 thing has to do with this MOUN.TOWN/FM idea I mess around with in a mountain town off of Highway 95a, eh).
But enough with the explanations, let’s get to the sweet music that is currently featured in this awesome collection of artists with LESS THAN 1000 MONTHLY LISTENERS on Spotify…
… which you should probably go press the "like/follow" button for over on Spotify so you can continue to get future updates auto-magically appearing on your listening device throughout the year. Because there is guaranteed to be some headphones discoveries happening in here (unless you’re already one of the <100o for all 95). And, as always, when you hear something you like, do the universe some good and support/check those artists out further (every little bit helps).
Speaking of which, here’s a few ‘available-on-Bandcamp’ tracks from the HI54 HOT 95, EH | <1000 MONTHLY LISTENERS playlist:
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Because the Spotifys of the world are great for discovering and keeping track and sharing music + they allow us to easily choose better soundtracks throughout the day than what we used to get handed down from FM radio stations before the internet arrived in everyone’s pocket, but the way creators are paid out with streaming is just not very good at all —especially in comparison to what others are making off providing access to the art of others.
Ideally, smart artist-minded technical people will start making some momentum into coming up with a better/fairer streaming model (here’s my contribution to the dialogue), but, for now, us appreciators of creativity/good things need to start doing a better job of being more mindful of making sure we’re continuing to show support to the creation of good things, in whatever ways we can. And Bandcamp is still one of the best online places going when it comes to supporting the makers of music through the forgotten art of giving the artist something in exchange for their music.
So, like I try to do with all my other mix cds, I will keep an ongoing Buy Music Club list archive going for all the ‘available on Bandcamp’ tracks that get added to this playlist on Spotify (at the time of me checking) — so go give that a gander whenever you find yourself wanting to reward your ears while also sending out support to those who help keep our lives nicely soundtracked:
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And then I will continue to work on putting together blog posts for all my other new ‘listener count’ Spotify playlists + I will get these ‘HI54 Hot 95, EH’ playlists setup over on MOUN.TOWN/FM over the next few weeks… but, for now, I hope you enjoy the above modern mix cd & that you find yourself becoming someone’s new monthly listener — and if you’re an artist with LESS THAN 1000 monthly listeners, I hope you see/hear that you’re in some pretty good company (even if you’re not one of the 95 artists featured in the current playlist rotation).
Ain’t we supposed to be dancing like no one is watching anyways?
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