This my first time going viral with public interaction, my take aways from my experience and tips : 1. make it a series. it was really easy to make 120 videos of this because Once we figured out a viral formula it was rinse and repeat. 2.Like Nic said make sure you’re the focus of the video. Easy way to do that is public performance. Mine is more focused on the dancer. I’m from NY so I wanted a NY dance song cause it’s a huge thing here in the clubs. But in the future we’re working on making me the focus and the music the focus. - but we did make a good amount of money off tik tok and youtube. So sometimes the win isn’t streaming numbers sometimes it’s the overall brand awareness and money made from other things. 3. Preview multiple songs with the idea. I did my one song 100 times because it kept working but I wish I had another one that fit the mold ready to rock as an instant follow up. I would have been able to keep the momentum up for longer 4. KZfaq shorts translated the best for us streaming wise. Post every banger video there. Tik tok is our testing ground for ideas. And i’m still trying to figure out my ig.

DON’T YOU DARE stopping these videos! They give me life fr 💯

Finally some real advice from someone who’s actually doing it

Currently have 1,000 monthly listeners. I’ll be back at 6 months for the update

For any music artist hesitant on buying the book. It’s not a waste of your money. Best $20 I ever spent

you have really helped me get my music heard with ur advice from al ur music in the last one month. in the end of November, i was having 4 monthly listeners on spotify and by today as of this date, i have 110 monthly listeners. thanks Nic.

I believe I speak for most of us watching and can say that we really appreciate the time you take to speak wisdom in front of the camera for us. Thank you, please continue to do these vids 🙏💯

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For reference: 00:00 Intro 01:18 The "Public Stunt" Strategy 03:29 Fans need to see it 7 times before "buying" 04:15 Real Life Example: "Icee Pop" - Nic D 06:45 Be Genuine 08:42 Release frequently paired with content 10:30 #RanchLife 11:01 Recycling Content 11:53 Real Life Example: The FRDI Show Podcast 13:15 Music videos 14:17 Outro Gems!

i watched dis 6 months ago and blew up the same month preciate ya ☝🏿💯

Love everything you are doing and love the advice, especially from someone who has tried, tested and is living his there own advice! You have been a godsend! been doing my music for many years as a one man metal band and recently got back on the horse. It is SOOOO! true in what advice you give, the music does not really matter on social media, and being to salesy dosent work and telling people to check you out. As you pointed out NO ONE wants things shoved in there faces. THANK YOU! for being able to change my mindset and making promotion of my brand and music SOOO much easier to make content now. The ways you advised have actually sparked NEW creativity for myself and would 100% say this would do for EVERYONE! Stay safe, Stay well, and stay Nic D. Truly Truly AWESOME! Rooting for you all the way! Gary KRANIUS

Dude, these are seriously helpful. Thank you so much. Currently at 60K monthly listeners, and I've been between 60-80 for the past year and a half. I've never released consistently, I never make the song with the content in mind first, and I've had multiple viral moments with different video ideas, but they never translate into a series. Going into 2024, me and my team have really flipped the schedule. We are releasing monthly with 2 weeks being spent on the song and 2 weeks spent on content for it. At least for now, I am sticking with making the song first and figuring out the content around it, but I am open to spend some time trying otherwise. Looking at my vidoes, they are all pushy with the song title, desperately trying to convert into streams. My most successful song came from just freestyling in public; no asking, no directing, just "here is this moment", and it hit. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I'm not sure I would've connected those dots on my own.

This was great. I've noticed more lyric video channels doing amazing when a song is trending than the music video.

Don't stop with this brother keep blessings people who struggling God bless you and your family 🙏

Needed this! Thank you, Nic!! 🙏🏼

Thanks for this bro!

Thanks man!! Great info, keep them coming 🙌🏼

Appreciate this man

Thank you for being so consistent with the content!

Your videos seem so real, Everybody else on youtube have no experience

Thanks Nic Appreciate it 🙏

Thank you for informing content homie!🙏

I wish soon I could make big big to meet you and said you are part of this success and we will collab

Thanks 🔥

Always appreciate these videos 🙏

I love these advice videos! Keep em coming!!

U crushed this one! Thank you! I learned so much

This is so helpful. Feels like you’re handing out the sauce in broad daylight and I’m here for it💪🏻

much love

Please keep dropping videos... this is so helpful!

Thankyou Nik Namaste

Thanks so much Nic! You’re such a blessing to aspiring indie artists

#Nuggets. Thanks for all of the sound advice bro. Blessings 🙏

Also if you put 'song out now on streaming' the algorithm will most likely lower engagement on that post because they dont want viewers leaving their app. Responding to a comment is a better way to get around that

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and thoughts Nic, I read your book and it changed the way I used to think about content and the way I used to think about creating songs. Thank you so much.

So appreciative of the free game you have been giving us. No one ever really digs this deep into it consistently

Super helpful - keep the videos coming man!

Thank you

Nic be dropping gems and we appreciate you! I actually have wanted to ask how you stay consistent? Like how do you schedule your time?

As a beatmaker, this info will help me a lot. Thanks bro 🙏🏿

Your advices are so helpful!! Thank you so much, very cute horsey in the background too :)

I love these video's, i hope you'll keep posting every day now

This video goes so deep... Wow! I've been doing the "grind" for almost 10 years now and this was the most accurate useful advice I have heard in a while. Keep it genuine...

Yea they r fire.. lets goo

This was very helpful

Love what you’re doing brother. Appreciate you.🃏

Haha the surface area. This is the perfect niche for you & I get so excited as you release these cause I learn a ton watching how you think through your points as you speak. It's like we're in the same room just talking authentically. That's shines in this space

I love your transparency and honesty, I’ve learned so much from you, no I’ll start applying these knowledge in a practical way, thanks ❤

I love how these are like everyday and im learning from a teacher

Beautifully done brother

Good key points fr🎉

You have really helped me change the narrative of my music. And I was signed twice once with Universal Republic and once with E-One hit billboard twice and all. But the info you give helps us take our business back into our hands thanks Nic.

Always so many gems 💎 It would be really cool to see you breakdown your content idea generation process; like a case study on a song promo

i love ur personality lol plz never stop making these videos

hearing you swish ideas about makes my brain to swish around ideas also listening, appreciate these keep em comin! :)

I have just seen you have the Audio Book 📘 👍😊 as part of your ebook package. Is there any chance of just selling the Audio❓ I don't get time to read. I like to learn by listening 👂 to KZfaq videos whilst doing boring hum drum jobs in the kitchen. I will need to convince my other half to buy the audio for me as my small business got attacked years ago, so I am having to start all over again. But the upside is it's been a learning curve along the way with a lot of health and educational benefits. There is a lot to be grateful for 🙏♥️. And I got to Home Educate my daughter, which was a great joy. I look forward to seeing the Miniature Cows 🐮 if you get them for your wife. My daughter wants one. Her boyfriend is a farmer in Cornwall 🇬🇧. She plans to build a Hobbit House and just make a living from drawing and singing. 🖌️🎨 🎵🎶. That's the dream. 💭 So mums has a lot of work to do to make it happen, starting with your audio book. 😄

Thank you so much for these videos. I love the thought process of finding that marketing hook before even writing the song. Marketing can be a creative outlet in and of itself honestly, so it makes sense to me to put them next to each other like that.

I'm definitely going to give your words and advice a try. I appreciate you. God bless

providing VALUE

2:30 ayy that’s me on Crash Adams lol. watching this video before going out to film content. thanks for always getting my gears turning on this stuff

This video was helpful, thanks! 2023 was the first year of me releasing music (4 singles). I've learned a lot and I'm slowly building an audience I think? But I have a long way to go.

I like these videos. I'm glad you're making more.

Def want to hear more about the music video short content

Your videos are going to change my life! Love that I am able to see these type of videos as a teen artist, thank u

@FRDi for Artists Do you think GRAHAM would do this type of video for producers? Short form content feels so different from other artists. Much love

Kirkland Sig 😆😆 love it ❤❤❤

Almost missed today's lesson. Thank you Nic D and shout out to Whiskey.

I think this a gem

your voice is meditative haha🙏

Would love to get an updated take on content from you. You mention doing public stuff for views but this entire year you’ve only posted performance videos with no public interaction at all, however they all did great! Been wondering why did you change the content idea aspect for your stuff and what did you learn from that. Thanks, I’ve learned a lot from you man. Just looking for some more clearance that’s all :)

Keep up the good work bro im glad i subbed.

This guy is so dope. Thanks

Love your content bro, thank you so much for helping us creators and artists. This is pure gems!

Book is awesome Nic is super inspiring will make you want to make more art to share!!!! Still wrapping my head around the content angle dont quite get it yet but im just gonna start i reckon!

Put out the video on music videos. ASAP. I'll be one of the first ones to watch it, and I love your raw, unfiltered style of making videos. It's refreshing.

Damn I’m lucky to be here when this channel is young

Can you teach us how to make content that we like and gives value?

I like your buggy.

Hi Nic! I found an interview of yours and blew my mind. Thanks for sharing all that useful info. Id like to know if your book and podcast will help me in my case, as I am working on my music as a deep and tech house dj/ producer. In this style I do not use lyrics as a base for my songs which I understand lyrics help to connect better with listeners. My style is more a little bit underground so kind of the opposite of mainstream which is what bringing more eyes and ears in social media. Thanks for your help brother! If you release a course on how to succesfully navigate music business and make a good living, im sure lots of ppl would sign in, including me.

Binging all these music business videos man! Can’t wait to start applying these tips. Do you think doing covers is still a good way to gain attention?

Very insightful. Im just trying to figure out how I can make cool official music videos in short form To get my creativity out.

It’s way harder for me because i sing in English but I live in a country wich the native language is portuguese 😔

Hey man. Take us through making a song.

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Yoo could u make a video on how to repurpose content for different platforms? Do you post the same video on alll platforms? Do the watermarks from IG and TT really hurt your reach?

Hey Nic, Should i use hash tags on Tiktok when first starting, I noticed you used to but now don't

Can you put the book on audible?

How does someone like NF do it? He doesn’t really rely on TikTok or making content outside of the content directly related to the music. Would really like to know what he did differently

Hey, Wanted to share a few thoughts. First, thank you so much for sharing insight and your personal experience. What you've been able to achieve is honestly cool af. So I'm a hip hop artist sitting on music I'm excited to share in the coming months. That said, watching this video left me feeling confused and a little overwhelmed. Prior to pressing play on the video my approach was going to be release music and engage online (pretty simple). However in the video (around the 8:40 mark) you said don't release music without pairing it with content, and if you don't have an audience, then whats the point. I felt personally called out 😂 This perfectly describes my music career 😅 Then you continue on to say music should be created base on a marketing strategy first. Bit of a "chicken and egg" situation here. Anyway, I'm back to square being unsure what to do. I appreciate you videos but this left me in a place of not knowing what to do next.

What is the answer? How do you get followers to stream your song from other content that you have created on a different platform?

I liked the video although the only option given was the public stunt option. Is it possible to go out on other options like Conner Price video style or other content creators that were able to convert due to great marketing ideas? Im a portuguese content creator on tiktok and have arround 73k followers on tiktok but only about 70 listeners on tiktok. Im able to create engaging content but the only thing I haven't been able to do yet is to convert to listeners on spotify. What am I doing wrong?

Put the book on audible

I have a video production company i get free music videos and they arent cheesy. 😂 but i gota focus on content creating

I feel like you were gonna set a new years resolution to post on this account more and then said why wait till next year

sEND MUSIC LINK..

How do you make money?

The content part. That’s the hard bit. My brain goes what? How can I come up with good entertaining content

How do you get followers to move over and stream your song from another place you posted it? You never got around to explaining that.

Really just filmed a great video because you had to give your horse more water. Too easy for you at this point 😂

Love your videos but I am mad sensitive to swallowing and chewing sounds and u swallow so close to the mic every second lmao god damn. I shiver every time. Misophonia is what its called or whatever.