Long & Short Term SoundCloud Followers and Plays Tactics

Every single musician has built their career the same way. It doesn’t matter if you’re Drake, George Strait, or The Beatles. Each one started with a small following and built themselves up. You have the same opportunity to do this in the digital world with SoundCloud as you do in the real world with your concerts and appearance.

With a little help from us at SocialRez, your SoundCloud presence can be established quickly. This will allow you to build your audience right now, rather than waiting for it to ‘just happen’ like so many other bands. Be sure to read the entire article, as always we are going to do our favorite SoundCloud track of the moment at the end!

Social proof is everything

Do you know what the big secret is behind every hit song? No, not a familiar and infectious chorus. Although that helps. What they all have in common is incredible market penetration through repeated radio play, soaring YouTube views, And plays on SoundCloud. As those numbers rack up they are displayed. People seeing these numbers, and being influenced by them, is social proof.

Within SoundCloud, your immediate worth is measured through the amount of followers and plays that you have. A low follower count equates to potentially fewer people trusting your account. A low number of plays leads to people writing off your song. A high number of plays, however, is not only worth noticing, but celebrating:

Reached 500k plays on my Soundcloud love to everyone supporting! – Lots of exciting stuff ahead ?? pic.twitter.com/PMPk7vRkyf

— Conducta (@ConductaUK) February 18, 2016

There are several ways to increase your following and plays on SoundCloud. Some are quick, short term solutions for immediate results. Others take a more long term approach. You will need to utilize both strategies to truly succeed at improving your SoundCloud account.

The easiest short term solution is our SoundCloud followers service for a quick boost to your numbers. This is especially beneficial for musicians who have just started their music career on SoundCloud. This boost to your follower numbers will provide immediate social proof and help kickstart your long term strategy. It can also help you out of a slump when you just can’t get anything going.

The same concept will also apply to your number of plays. You can boost your numbers using our service, and gain the social proof that will impress those who find your song for the first time. Once your Soundcloud follower fanbase is rapidly devouring every track you post, you can start to use long term techniques to bolster your online fanbase with offline fans. These are the people who will buy your albums, go to your concerts, and completely freak out because they caught a small piece of plastic that was once in your hand…

I WAS SO CLOSE GUYS I FUCKING TOUCHED HIM I HELD HIS HAND IM CRYING LIKE HE LOOKED AT ME A S OH MY GDOD I CAUGHT A GUITAR PICK GUYSYSYS

— em @ DIARIKO (@sakumareii) November 23, 2016

Long Term SoundCloud follower building strategies

We have a full article about getting more SoundCloud followers on our blog. Here’s a quick breakdown:

• Upgrade to a paid account: You’ll be able to upload more tracks, get better statistical feedback, and learn more about where your fans are in the world. Use this information to plan your first world tour!
• Start creating favorites lists: SoundCloud is no different than any other social media platform. Just like favoriting a tweet or starring a page; creating favorite lists is a great way to reach out to other artists. Adding a band to your favorite list and more importantly, letting them know they’re on your list, is a way to spread your influence amongst those in the industry.
• Comment on other tracks: Spammy comments like: “Hey this song sounds like mine, come listen” will do more damage than they can ever help you. Be more constructive and say what you like about songs, talk about structure, compare it to legendary bands – be a fan. When you appear to be an authority within your genre and are knowledgeable and helpful, people will want to engage with you. This leads them to listening to your music. A big concept within social proof is no one wants to “miss out” on something great. Be that great something they don’t want to miss!
• Work on your images: A great SoundCloud profile image shows people who you are, your band logo, and conveys any important information. This information could be the release date for your album, or your website address.
• Join SoundCloud groups: Focusing on building a local following by joining groups related to your area first is key. You’ll have more success as a band from Atlanta if you join “Atlanta Area Rockers,” than you will joining a random group with a name like “Bands that have TOTALLY ROCKED.” As with all things in music, start local and build from your hometown.
• Use tags wisely: When you’re getting your song ready for sharing, be sure to tag your record label, radio stations that have played you, the ones you want to play you, DJs, your producer, and anyone else. After that, tag a few bands that are in your genre. If you have a heavy metal band and tag Justin Bieber you are a spammer at that point, and you’ll be abused by Beliebers. No one wants that.
• Use SoundCloud Widgets: SoundCloud have built a number of widgets that will help you share your music on your website, Facebook page, and WordPress blog. The Internet is sometimes called The Web because of connections being made. Make as many connections between your web presence and your music on SoundCloud as you can to take advantage of the platform to its fullest.

Your long term plans and goals will be less effective without a good foundation to start on. Our services are available to get that initial 100, or even 10,000, followers. This will help to improve your appearance for new folks that find your Soundcloud profile through the long term strategies you are using.

Increasing your SoundCloud plays

Soundcloud boasts over 175,000,000 unique visitors every month, and it’s users upload over 12 hours of music every minute. It’s easy to get lost in that massive amount of data. Picking a specific song from your album and focusing on it is paramount for initial success. Every band has that ‘one song’ that helped them get discovered and skyrocketed them into stardom. Promoting that one song should be your second step after you increase your followers.

Listen to My new song “Sushi Man” featuring my brother @yungboitrunks ????? Now on sound cloud https://t.co/rdN4tUFqTq

— Johnny Oz (@Johnnyozmusic) December 1, 2016

Start out by using the tactics above and applying them to specific songs:

• Upgrade to a paid account: You’ll be able to learn more about your hit song, Such as where it gets played the most.
• Start creating favorites lists: Put your hit song next to other hit songs in your genre. This will help you get more plays from fans of those songs from fans who find your list.
• Comment on other tracks: Again, your goal is to look like an authority on your genre of music.
• Work on your images: The image that you upload for a song can impact how often it is played. Make the image memorable, and the song will be memorable too.
• Join SoundCloud groups: Start out by posting on local groups, and build your song with the people you know.
• Use tags wisely: Take each song with the genre tags that are relevant to it. Be sure that it’s specific to that song, don’t tag and R&B song as trip hop because your other single was trip hop as well.
• Use SoundCloud Widgets: Widgets four tracks are just as important as widgets for followers. Don’t forget to also embed individual tracks on your website, and in your blogs.

And important short term tactic is to use our SoundCloud plays service. Use it to get 100 or 1,000,000 plays on your best song to boost your chances of building momentum. This again ties directly into social proof. If you want to be successful, you have to look successful. The Hypebeast is real, especially in social media and music marketing. Our plays service can help get that Hypebeast hungry!

Long term SoundCloud play tactics

Our SoundCloud plays service is meant as a short-term tactic. To get more plays from real listeners, who will love your music, share your tracks, and buy your merchandise you need to:

• Upload your best tracks: Too many bands think they can treat SoundCloud as a second best platform. You can’t upload b-sides and remixes and get the kind of plays that will really change your career. Your fans can just go download your music if you’re not prepared to give it to them here on SoundCloud where you have more control.
• Genre tags: Each track you upload has its own set of relevant genres that it can be included under. You may be a rock band overall, but more than one rock band has seen its popularity soar thanks to a good old fashion power ballad. Don’t be afraid to tag your individual songs outside of your usual genre if the specific song is a fit.
• It’s not a radio station: You need to come back to your tracks again and again and respond to comments made by fans. It can be 5 minutes you take that completely change the opinion of someone from ‘this band is okay,’ to ‘OMG! They talked to me and I love everything about them now!’ Remember how you felt when your favorite band took the time to acknowledge you? Pay the forward on SoundCloud.
• Use Spotlight: Spotlight is for paid accounts. It allows you to highlight tracks by keeping them at the top of your page – right where your best song that you’re trying to get plays for should be. Feel free to change this up when your next single is released, and you start this process all over again, or when you need something fresh.

Like anything, moderation and a realistic expectation is key. A brand new band is not going to get 1,000,000 plays off their first track with a few thousand followers. Use our service in reasonable amounts for the best results. Don’t be afraid to push your follower count up a bit in order to push your plays up too.

No matter what you do, focusing on one track for your rise to stardom is a key strategy. Every band started with one hit song. Start doing it on SoundCloud and watch your career take off.

Starting your music career with SocialRez and SoundCloud

The days of MTV and VH1 are over. Radio play is expensive and targeted. The artist of today relies on single downloads and Internet plays. Infectious songs go viral and the artists behind them get propelled into a level that was unheard of 20 years ago.

Your music career can reach the culture permeating level of a track like Ylvis’ ‘What the Fox Says.’ Your star can shine brighter with an infectious viral hit ala Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake it Off.’ They are Internet era artists who have built their careers on a viral hit. It wasn’t all the work they put behind their album that propelled these artists into superstardom. It was their hit song gaining social proof via repeated online play.

Using our SoundCloud plays service can help you emulate their success. By doing that Having a solid base of SoundCloud followers will help you capture those fans for the long term. No one wants to follow a band with one big hit but no fans. Those bands are a flash in the pan. Our SoundCloud Followers service will help you establish your fans and create diehard raving lunatics who throw panties at you!