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Ellissentials
02-14-2012, 10:24 AM
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8042/djfsoundcloudlogo.png



Some people think SoundCloud is just a place you can store your music... some think it's just a place that you place your track and you can link around to friends or "whoever"... some even understand the sharing potential that SoundCloud possesses. But SoundCloud is MORE than that! It's a community.. it's a vibe.. it's a home for like minded individuals to share their simple or even complex works on music, be it a radio cast, shout cast, verbal ramblings of a human beings day, DJ Mixsets, original productions, live event recordings etc etc. The list truly does go on.

Well this is a spot I dedicate strictly to SoundCloud and anything you feel like boasting about it. Maybe you just hit 1,000 followers and want to revel in that with other members. Maybe you topped some list somewhere, or got attention from some place you didn't expect? Maybe someone gave you a comment that just absolutely made your day? You could even have been mentioned in some show, got some kind of virtual award or just had a great time earning someones respect somewhere.

I feel like, in the 2 years I've been on SoundCloud, it's much more than just a spot to park your tunes.. and just hope they get listened to. It's a chance to find someone that is on your same playing field mentally, or just find absolutely amazing tunes that are FREE and exclusive only to SoundCloud. I know I've found some MASSIVE tracks there, and met an incredible amount of quality people. And I think there can be just a little spot on the forums dedicated to achievements and "SoundCloud endeavors" where you can share to your fellows.

I'll start it off:

Here's a shot of the first week that I really learned how to use SoundCloud to my full advantage.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/389549_10150503522769518_565974517_8557194_1036854 131_n.jpg

I had actually ended the week total plays at around 1,370 .. but I just HAD to screen shot this one hah 1337 :slayer:

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Here's a few week's later; Total plays is getting up there. I average 1,100 - 1,600 listens each week. :D
This week was my highest ever, I ended with 1,614 but refreshed the page again and it had reset to 0, so I wasn't able to catch the screenshot

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/418529_10150592597594518_565974517_8815404_6058381 56_n.jpg

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1,000 followers, here I come! hah

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/419605_10150584147044518_565974517_8792837_1222693 093_n.jpg

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Also have a couple tracks in the "top 40" on Cloudycharts.com, but the site seems to be down at the moment.



So if you too are very much involved with SoundCloud and have a few "achievements" you want to share, post it up! :tup:

JuxtaPoser
02-14-2012, 10:27 AM
Perhaps you could post some advice on how to use Soundcloud to promote your music properly? I've been really slack in that department myself. I basically just throw bits on there and wait for someone to stumble across them and share/blog about them. It seems to have worked a bit and a couple of my tunes have appeared on some big blogs like Earmilk etc but I'm well aware there is a ton more I could be doing to promote my stuff.

Ellissentials
02-14-2012, 10:52 AM
I'm thinking of writing up an article about it actually. Just haven't gotten around to it, since it will be a tricky write up.

Hausgeist
02-14-2012, 10:57 AM
I haven't uploaded a mix in at least two years. That has to count for something. :shrug:

Nick Bike
02-14-2012, 11:43 AM
something over 20,000 total plays, if that's an 'achievement'

Era 7
02-14-2012, 11:48 AM
got like 55 plays...

Ellissentials
02-14-2012, 11:56 AM
something over 20,000 total plays, if that's an 'achievement'

Well sure it is..are you happy with that number? Do you feel you've "achieved" something? I would at 20k :tup:

Ellissentials
02-14-2012, 04:17 PM
That site is back up.. here's some charts I've been on.

http://cloudycharts.com/house/2011-12-05

Number 19 here
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/Ellissentials/number19-2.jpg

Number 24 here
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/Ellissentials/number24.jpg

swine
02-14-2012, 05:00 PM
teach me! haha joining groups has helped but that only gets your track played for a week or so before its moved to the 3rd-4th-5th page

Ellissentials
02-14-2012, 05:20 PM
Remember if you unshare and reshare you go back up to the top :tup:

Dantron
02-14-2012, 06:36 PM
I really should start posting more mixes.

Interracial Tea
02-14-2012, 06:47 PM
100 download limit reached fuck yeah

Grifff
02-14-2012, 09:39 PM
I'm almost at 100 followers on soundcloud, nowhere near the 1000 you're almost on! Also, what is cloudycharts? I had a look at the website but I didn't really get it

Ellissentials
02-14-2012, 09:40 PM
Not really sure.. just some charts I found when I googled my name. Notice I was on it for 2 different weeks. Thought it to be neat. :D

ChrisHynds
02-14-2012, 10:21 PM
Great thread man and thanks for the help, my listens have tripled since I started taking your advice on it, still pretty lame, but considering I never used SC properly until very recently its a massive improvement!!!!! Thanks again dude!!!

PONTUS.2
02-15-2012, 12:51 AM
let me know some tips guys. when i upload a track i usually share them with the groups im in (im a free user so only able to share 1 song with 1 group)

i comment on a shitload of peoples tracks and follow them, also follow people who follow me.

i collab with peeps

what else should i be doing

dlove
02-15-2012, 01:42 AM
I get the biggest kick when someone I admire follows me - both on soundcloud & mixcloud, I've got a few producers DJ's & people from bands that I totally love :tup: I'm easy pleased!

Ferryman
02-15-2012, 06:06 AM
Echoing the statements of others, I'd love to get some more info on how to promote yourself effctively on SC. I generally get decent feedback, and a strong followers / comments / downloads to play ratio so I'd be keen to expand my online audience more. Any pointers would be hugely appreciated :)

In terms of achievements, I have had comments and feedback left by Mad EP (Ad Noiseam) and Dark Sky (Black Acre). Not really achievements I guess, but nice to get feedback from those sort of heads.

al_mcd
02-15-2012, 06:34 AM
I only have a couple of mashups on mine, which is a bit shit. Need to get some original work on there, or remixes for that matter - once I actually crack production properly !

I have like 9 mashups on there which have been listened to in over 40 countries (only a couple from each place though haha), thats the only 'achievement' i can think of.....pretty shit anyway compared to some of the big hitters on here with over 20K listens, 1000 followers etc.!

Ellissentials
02-15-2012, 07:30 AM
Cheers guys! Any achievement big or small should be appreciated so be happy with yourselves! :tup:

As far as how much I can help you, really only applies to people with PAID FOR accounts. :( I'm sorry, but the non-paid for account ..well that may as well just be a place to park your tunes then. :lol: Only 1 group share and a cap on your downloads is really rough.

Ellissentials
02-15-2012, 08:09 AM
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/Ellissentials/rektcomment.jpg

A comment I got from Rektchordz (I assume a couple of you may know who he is ;) )

Very happy to have gotten such a comment from him!! :slayer:

Ferryman
02-15-2012, 11:02 AM
As far as how much I can help you, really only applies to people with PAID FOR accounts. :( I'm sorry, but the non-paid for account ..well that may as well just be a place to park your tunes then. :lol: Only 1 group share and a cap on your downloads is really rough.

I have the cheapest available paid account. Are there decent perks to having a more expensive account (aside from the obvious extra allowances), what are the advanced analytics like....?

Sigma
02-16-2012, 04:37 AM
As far as how much I can help you, really only applies to people with PAID FOR accounts. :( I'm sorry, but the non-paid for account ..well that may as well just be a place to park your tunes then. :lol: Only 1 group share and a cap on your downloads is really rough.
What are your tips then man? I have a paid for account. I don't really do anything to promote my mixes on SoundCloud itself, although I have shared a couple of mixes with 2 or 3 groups but it didn't seem to have much of an effect.

Ellissentials
02-16-2012, 06:17 AM
You need to share and unshare then share every single day (with a paid for account) Each track can be shared to 75 groups total, and depending on the group you snag (DO NOT DO MODERATED) depends on your listener base. If you're in a group that only has 100 users in it, you're not going to get listened to by as many as a group with 15,000 people in it. If you share a track within a day or so it's well off the first page.. well, unshare from ALL groups then reshare to ALL groups, and bump your tracks back to page 1. Big big tip right there. The biggest secret is in the groups!! :tup:

Sigma
02-16-2012, 06:59 AM
I thought it would be that, but isn't that basically spamming though? It clearly works, it just seems like a bit of a shady way of going about it.

Ellissentials
02-16-2012, 07:18 AM
There's a fine line between military grade spam, and go "with the flow" of advertising. Don't share / unshare / share more than 10 times a day.. that's spam. But Share / unshare / Reshare once or twice a day is just fine advertising and utilizing everything SoundCloud offers. :tup:

I hate spamming people, but technically once you promote yourself even once and present yourself to somebody...it's immediately spam. hah.. TECHnically that is.

Ferryman
02-16-2012, 07:50 AM
Nice one. cheers for the heads up.

And yeah I agree, once of twice a day is fine. to be fair, a lot of those groups have 1000's of tracks going in so it'll be easy for your post to get missed so a few times a day is fine - not everyone is going to see them every time you post a track :)

Ellissentials
02-16-2012, 07:53 AM
Exactly! :tup:

Grifff
02-16-2012, 08:12 AM
I always shied away from posting in the 15,000 member groups because I thought that it would get buried pretty quickly, I'll give that share-unshare thing a go when I next put a mix out

Ferryman
02-16-2012, 08:17 AM
I always shied away from posting in the 15,000 member groups because I thought that it would get buried pretty quickly, I'll give that share-unshare thing a go when I next put a mix out

Yeah I'm keeping it to groups of 10,000 or less. :)

Sigma
02-16-2012, 08:31 AM
Is there any way to sort groups by number of members when you search for them?

Ellissentials
02-17-2012, 06:55 PM
I go by the more members the better. I actually have a "threshold" that I abide by.... 600 people+ .. the groups with 50,000-80,000 are great! The more people, the larger that "network" is... yes the quicker it gets buried in a way, but you just zip it back up daily. ;)

Sigma
02-17-2012, 10:08 PM
I tried this, but I didn't have any success with it.

I joined 10 groups that were all either "hip-hop" or "old school hip-hop" and each one had between 1,000 and 20,000 members (the biggest I could find for those genres). In total there are about 70,000 members. I sent a mix to all of the groups, then later in the day I unshared it from all of them and shared it again. I got 14 listens, lol. Oh, and I did get 1 PM from a guy asking if he could put my mix on his blog, but I don't know if that was related.

Maybe you're doing this on a much bigger scale than my attempt though.

Rhodekewl
02-17-2012, 10:45 PM
http://soundcloud.com/rhodekewl/k-special-on-the-path-original Please leave a comment on here please....tell me what you think of it....thanks

Ellissentials
02-18-2012, 06:36 AM
Maybe you're doing this on a much bigger scale than my attempt though.

You just may be on to something sir ;) :tup:

Ferryman
02-18-2012, 08:38 AM
I tried this, but I didn't have any success with it.

I joined 10 groups that were all either "hip-hop" or "old school hip-hop" and each one had between 1,000 and 20,000 members (the biggest I could find for those genres). In total there are about 70,000 members. I sent a mix to all of the groups, then later in the day I unshared it from all of them and shared it again. I got 14 listens, lol. Oh, and I did get 1 PM from a guy asking if he could put my mix on his blog, but I don't know if that was related.

Maybe you're doing this on a much bigger scale than my attempt though.

I've joined about 30 groups with an average of 5,000 members in and shared 3 songs twice. I've had 100 plays so far. As well as a few favouritings / comments. :)

More groups, more and more and more....!

Ellissentials
02-18-2012, 08:42 AM
I've joined about 30 groups with an average of 5,000 members in and shared 3 songs twice. I've had 100 plays so far. As well as a few favouritings / comments.

More groups, more and more and more....!

;) Good stuff

Ferryman
02-18-2012, 08:49 AM
;) Good stuff

Nice one :)

Ellissentials
02-18-2012, 11:25 AM
Another comment by Rektchordz (http://www.beatport.com/artist/rektchordz/34191)

Absolutely humbled to have his time and attention. It's an amazing feeling to have someone you look up to and respect on a musical level like this, to give you the "light of day" and just take a moment on your own works.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/Ellissentials/rektcomment2.jpg

gr2daover
02-18-2012, 12:11 PM
nothing too crazy but i had one of my edit get featured on a breaks blog out of spain.

Funkyfader
02-18-2012, 01:42 PM
http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/1095/1845plays.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/818/1845plays.jpg/)
1845 plays on soundcloud
http://www.tunescoop.com/play/3836363131/flo-rida-good-feeling-dj-funkyfader-bootleg-wwwlivingelectrocom-mp3
but 5249 downloads on tunescoop,how?
A popular member of livingelectro uploaded it which helps alot.

Les Braun
02-18-2012, 01:56 PM
I'd love to get that many plays on soundcloud... how do you do it?

Ellissentials
02-18-2012, 02:00 PM
I'd love to get that many plays on soundcloud... how do you do it?

Comments #20 and #24 should best help you with this answer. :tup:

Manu
02-18-2012, 04:20 PM
I recently scored a few followers :teef:

Sigma
02-18-2012, 09:26 PM
This is the best I've done with a mix on SoundCloud: -

http://i.imgur.com/JYpHd.jpg

What pushed the listens up quite a lot was getting the mix featured on these blogs: -

http://www.pipomixes.com/2011/08/sigma-79-mixed-by-dj-sigma.html
http://fleamarketfunk.com/2011/07/27/dj-sigma-presents-79-a-mix-of-hip-hop-tracks-released-in-1979/

Ellissentials
02-19-2012, 06:11 PM
Nice Sigma, that's quite sweet :tup:


Here's my count just before reset today.. almost 1550 :D

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/Ellissentials/weeklystatsfebruary19th.jpg

Ellissentials
02-21-2012, 11:27 AM
Got a comment from Rektchordz again today on a "No Set Beat" remix by Kwerk. (http://soundcloud.com/ellissentials/ellissentials-no-set-beat)

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/Ellissentials/rektcomment3.jpg

Ocie
02-21-2012, 11:55 AM
"Ellissentials is following you" :tup:

moyo wilde
02-23-2012, 11:56 PM
i would say be careful with share unshare. i have unfollowed people cause they kept reupping their tracks. course he was doing it daily for like a month and it was the same old tracks over and over again and not random like five everyday.

drumpusher
02-24-2012, 09:32 PM
Some guy said he liked my track. :teef:

Ellissentials
03-07-2012, 05:43 PM
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/Ellissentials/1000followers.jpg

Just hit the 4 digit mark...woo :D

CC Ricers
03-08-2012, 02:57 PM
I'm not close to being popular but I've gotten 4 comments from one recording label on the same track! The person behind that label must really love it.

Smallz
03-08-2012, 03:24 PM
This isn't really an accomplishment, but there was a thread on dfj 1.0 asking how to switch between dubstep and electro house, so i decided to mix two skrillex tracks together to give him an example of how it can be done.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7186/6819086898_66441e5fd5_b.jpg

Even though I only demonstrated it to that one guy, it's gotten over 500 views. Not sure how I feel about it, but it's interesting to me nonetheless.

Ignotus
03-08-2012, 04:55 PM
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c177/panther9872/KANDI.png

Having one of my favorite producers, Daniel Kandi message me telling me one of my tracks has potential


meh.... pic is to small... cant make it bigger :(

Sigma
03-08-2012, 05:44 PM
I got a comment from DJ Format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Format) who I've been a fan of for a long time: -

http://i.imgur.com/VsB9a.jpg

And no doubt the image above will be too small to read (fix that shit, Stripe!) so......


Really well put together mix with GREAT scratching..technical but still funky..PERFECT! I'd like to post about this on twitter & facebook if you can send me a link? I'm a bit new to social networking so i'm a bit useless with links etc at the moment,should get the hang of it soon..

Ellissentials
03-13-2012, 10:16 AM
Nice, cheers on all your accomplishments! :tup:

Good stuff

TCMuc
03-14-2012, 10:23 AM
This isn't really an accomplishment, but there was a thread on dfj 1.0 asking how to switch between dubstep and electro house, so i decided to mix two skrillex tracks together to give him an example of how it can be done.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7186/6819086898_66441e5fd5_b.jpg

Even though I only demonstrated it to that one guy, it's gotten over 500 views. Not sure how I feel about it, but it's interesting to me nonetheless.


Interesting...


So from now on I will tag every mix something with "Skrillex" and get a gazillion views :D:P;)



Just kidding. Congrats on the views! Surely gave you some good exposure.

DjBlanco
03-14-2012, 11:49 AM
http://soundcloud.com/djblanconyc/suds-up-sunday-mixshow

my first upload that hit over 200 plays and 60 comments (was also in the finals for the ultra music festival competition on mixcloud and got over 500 plays)

moyo wilde
04-25-2012, 01:09 AM
finally got soundcloud set up, following all the right people, so that i get crazy amounts of good music from almost every genre i love every day! and am constantly discovering new people and music when people i follow post comments/favorite a track.

DjBlanco
04-25-2012, 11:25 AM
i got so many hits on my soundcloud... i broke the site today

Blueprint
04-25-2012, 11:26 AM
i think i have like 1300 followers

Rosten
04-25-2012, 06:43 PM
Someone added my mix to favourites! Huge achievement for a nobody like me <3

frandomeda
04-25-2012, 07:11 PM
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/914/screenshot20120425at806.png
I haven't really done much lately :(

disparate
04-26-2012, 08:11 AM
I think one of my tracks got an entire 3 or 4 comments on it :) a few favouritings here and there too...

DjBlanco
04-26-2012, 08:39 AM
100+ plays 80+ comments in 24hrs even though sound cloud was down most of the day

http://soundcloud.com/djblanconyc/suds-up-sunday-4-22

thehadgi
04-26-2012, 09:39 AM
I think I'm figuring out a shady soundcloud move, whereby people follow me in order for me to 'follow them back', and then they dump me so that their following/followed ratio looks good

Now I don't follow shit unless I either know the person, they have good music, or they are a djf'er

Also, good to hear you guys know how to juice the system and get lots of plays, but I f*cking hate the spam on SC :argh:

Era 7
04-26-2012, 10:49 AM
I think I'm figuring out a shady soundcloud move, whereby people follow me in order for me to 'follow them back', and then they dump me so that their following/followed ratio looks good

Now I don't follow shit unless I either know the person, they have good music, or they are a djf'er

Also, good to hear you guys know how to juice the system and get lots of plays, but I f*cking hate the spam on SC :argh:


oh man i feel ya. the amount of people who spam private messages is aweful. i got like 260 for only two mixes and i don't really know why. for sure doesn't add up with the amount of plays i got...

DjBlanco
04-26-2012, 11:14 AM
strange ive never got any spam...

Nick Bike
05-01-2012, 09:54 PM
not really an achievement, thought it was neat tho - http://instagr.am/p/KG3xQ1J6eh/

Atomisk
05-01-2012, 10:15 PM
I'm about to hit 1,000 plays on a Levels / Call Me Maybe mashup I made as a joke.

moyo wilde
05-01-2012, 10:58 PM
oops double post.

moyo wilde
05-01-2012, 10:59 PM
@ hadgi

yeah i went to one guys page and looked at his comments and he wrote the same thing on every comment to 100's of people.

Kingbob182
05-10-2012, 08:07 PM
Mine is a slightly different accomplishment. I'm watching my ratio of Plays to Downloads. Its slowly climbing. from about 1:20 to around 1:8 for my newer stuff. Im now trying to list an acapella Ive made with a comment saying it will be available to download when my newest mash up reaches a certain no. of plays. only bee set like that for a few hours but hopefully it boost the plays because the acapella recieved a fair bit of attention in the first few hours it was up.


EDIT: My Latest MashUp has 34 Plays and 8 Downloads. I must be improving

Gnozis
05-10-2012, 08:16 PM
My newest mix made my Sondcloud go from around 400 listens total to 1189 in a week and a half, very happy with that. Just now really started promoting my SC page.

Fred McLovin
05-10-2012, 08:50 PM
I know what is your little secret elissential and I understand why you don't wanna give it cause I do the same....

Your Gotye remix got 130 ish comments and less than 100 download... that's not a legit stats... A legit stats like the remix from Kitsch 2.0 would be 3000 DL for 150-200 comments... you have these stats only because you put your track on a website I won't name. And on this website It's easy as fuck to get 2000 plays a week for a track even if the track is a recording of your fart....

Seriously, stop braggin about your soundcloud accomplishment it's no big deal, my latest track have 125 comments and 150 downloads, so what !?!? its soundcloud... when youll be in the beatport top100 come braggin... for now work your stuff out cause your latest remix is a bit ''meh' to be honest !

Kingbob182
05-10-2012, 09:14 PM
I know what is your little secret elissential and I understand why you don't wanna give it cause I do the same....

Your Gotye remix got 130 ish comments and less than 100 download... that's not a legit stats... A legit stats like the remix from Kitsch 2.0 would be 3000 DL for 150-200 comments... you have these stats only because you put your track on a website I won't name. And on this website It's easy as fuck to get 2000 plays a week for a track even if the track is a recording of your fart....

Seriously, stop braggin about your soundcloud accomplishment it's no big deal, my latest track have 125 comments and 150 downloads, so what !?!? its soundcloud... when youll be in the beatport top100 come braggin... for now work your stuff out cause your latest remix is a bit ''meh' to be honest !

He mad

Gnozis
05-11-2012, 01:04 AM
When a track you share with a group gets pushed to a back page, how do you find it to unshare so you can share again to get it back to the top?

Fred McLovin
05-11-2012, 08:29 AM
He mad

Yes I am, It's so fuckin lame to see someone posting such stats saying he's good, bragin about his ''achievements''... Give me a fuckin' break

Era 7
05-11-2012, 08:37 AM
Yes I am, It's so fuckin lame to see someone posting such stats saying he's good, bragin about his ''achievements''... Give me a fuckin' break

lol.

5char

moyo wilde
05-11-2012, 08:49 AM
so what's the website? be nice to have extra views for when promoters and managers look at the page

thehadgi
05-11-2012, 08:57 AM
I'm assuming sites like these

http://www.soundcloudplaysincreaser.co.uk/

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9079827/Photos/1.jpg

EDIT: Although I don't think anyone in here would probably go that far as to pay for meaningless comments

moyo wilde
05-11-2012, 12:16 PM
oh that is lame. i thought it was just one of those hypem type things that gets you a couple a listens.

wait are they getting real people to listen or are they just pumping the numbers through some kinda tech trick or are the people listening getting a check as well?

Sigma
05-12-2012, 06:11 PM
One of my mixes broke the 3,000 listens barrier today, which is pretty good.

http://i.imgur.com/7ba7W.jpg

http://soundcloud.com/deejaysigma/79-a-mix-of-hip-hop-tracks

Fred McLovin
05-12-2012, 06:37 PM
One of my mixes broke the 3,000 listens barrier today, which is pretty good.

http://i.imgur.com/7ba7W.jpg

http://soundcloud.com/deejaysigma/79-a-mix-of-hip-hop-tracks

You see... that's a legit stats... 1101 DL for 45 comments...!!

Congrats Sigma :)

Ellissentials
05-12-2012, 06:37 PM
*double post*

Ellissentials
05-12-2012, 06:40 PM
Firstly.. I share and unshare and then reshare my tracks to all 75 groups. That's how I get most of the listens.

...secondly...


you have these stats only because you put your track on a website I won't name

Huh? :shrug: Errr......ok.


On another note... if you read ANYTHING I've said in this thread, and you take away from it that I just want to really BRAG about my stuff....then you can go sort yourself out my friend. I agree, my last track was mediocre at best, and never once claimed it to be amazing. :shrug: Don't know what you're on about there, sir. :monkey:

I do believe this is a place where people can boast about ANY and ALL things they consider "soundcloud achievements" not just "Ellissentials achievements"

Ellissentials
05-12-2012, 06:42 PM
One of my mixes broke the 3,000 listens barrier today, which is pretty good.

http://i.imgur.com/7ba7W.jpg

http://soundcloud.com/deejaysigma/79-a-mix-of-hip-hop-tracks


Awesome Sigma :tup: Good stuff!

DJNR
05-12-2012, 06:42 PM
I deleted mine because Soundcloud sucks :squint:

thehadgi
05-12-2012, 06:56 PM
Never mind :facepalm:

moyo wilde
05-12-2012, 10:01 PM
looks like fred might be the only lame one.

Fred McLovin
05-13-2012, 09:34 AM
looks like fred might be the only lame one.


Yeaahh so lame that my track are being played in the club.... yeah pretty lame also that i'm on beatport !!

And I'm not paying for anything... there's website when you can put your tracks and exchange comments with other without paying... go find it yourself !

Elissential you know 150 comments for 90 DL it's not legit... common man! When people legitly comments they always DL

Ellissentials
05-13-2012, 10:04 AM
I don't know what to tell you my friend. Truth of the matter is; I share / unshare / reshare about 2-4 times a day within all 75 groups total *changing it up between about 300 groups* Not really sure why you're upset about 150 comments for 90 DL's... maybe someone wanted to comment about it, and not take it. I have a bunch of favorites too, so maybe the ones that didn't DL are just farvoriting and then going to their favorite list and just playing their list? Loads of people just use SoundCloud as a music player, ya know?
Maybe people use me, as well, to post a comment just to have their profile show on my track for potential future listeners. We could dissect this a bit more and figure out tons of "what ifs" if you want to, but my point is I'm not doing anything wrong, nor do I want people to worship me and my (very small) achievements. This is solely a place for fellow members to post anything they consider an "accomplishment" and nothing more. You came at me like I'm trying to be all egotistical or something :(


yeah pretty lame also that i'm on beatport

If you consider that an accomplishment (which I do as well), I have tracks currently on Beatport and have a remix done by Kwerk and also a remix done by Sneaker and The Dryer set for release in the next month. You should be happy about that and cheerful to others, not quite so degrading :shrug:

Fred McLovin
05-13-2012, 10:27 AM
I don't know what to tell you my friend. Truth of the matter is; I share / unshare / reshare about 2-4 times a day within all 75 groups total *changing it up between about 300 groups* Not really sure why you're upset about 150 comments for 90 DL's... maybe someone wanted to comment about it, and not take it. I have a bunch of favorites too, so maybe the ones that didn't DL are just farvoriting and then going to their favorite list and just playing their list? Loads of people just use SoundCloud as a music player, ya know?
Maybe people use me, as well, to post a comment just to have their profile show on my track for potential future listeners. We could dissect this a bit more and figure out tons of "what ifs" if you want to, but my point is I'm not doing anything wrong, nor do I want people to worship me and my (very small) achievements. This is solely a place for fellow members to post anything they consider an "accomplishment" and nothing more. You came at me like I'm trying to be all egotistical or something :(



If you consider that an accomplishment (which I do as well), I have tracks currently on Beatport and have a remix done by Kwerk and also a remix done by Sneaker and The Dryer set for release in the next month. You should be happy about that and cheerful to others, not quite so degrading :shrug:

Well if unsharing/sharing works... Seems like a good trick. But also seems like a pretty long process... sharing unsharing to 75 groups is pain in the ass. PM me ill tell you what I do, it saves A LOT of time compared to sharing/unsharing... Sorry for being a dick to you. I thought you were using some ''not legit'' tools to boost your stats. Im not upset about the comments/DL count, I was just suspicious.

Peace !

Ellissentials
05-13-2012, 10:38 AM
Cheers Fred. Takes a true man to say that he was sorry. I appreciate it :tup:

And, granted that it DOES take a long time... I DO have a trick up my sleeve that makes the sharing / unsharing process MUCH MUCH faster and more manageable. I'll add ya on FB


Back to accomplishments. (I have no current ones I do not think)

frandomeda
05-13-2012, 01:50 PM
Fred can you PM me the trick too

Kingbob182
05-13-2012, 07:08 PM
Well, the weekly play count just reset and I was so close to breaking the 500 plays AND the 100 downloads.
http://img.tapatalk.com/3aa3afc0-4cfe-b308.jpg

This is still a new personal best for me and I'm happy with it. I particularly like my 3 newest mash ups and from the comments, so do my listeners. I'm more than happy with my recent progress.

But I will keep working at that 500 plays and 100 Downloads starting today.
Help a brother out and check my stuff out. :)

Kingbob182
05-13-2012, 07:16 PM
Plus, that's just over 5:1 plays to download ratio so I'm thrilled that people are enjoying it enough to download them

moyo wilde
05-13-2012, 09:38 PM
@ fred what i was referring to was you coming in accusing people of things, and being on beatport doesn't exclude you from being lame.

tads
05-13-2012, 10:30 PM
I'm really proud of my 3 favorites.

....slightly jealous that all y'all are so prolific. Is there anything I can do to get more people to listen to my mixes? (I'd love feedback on the mixes too)

Sigma
05-13-2012, 10:56 PM
I'm really proud of my 3 favorites.

....slightly jealous that all y'all are so prolific. Is there anything I can do to get more people to listen to my mixes? (I'd love feedback on the mixes too)
The thing that's boosted my stats the most is getting my mix featured on a couple of popular blogs: -

http://www.pipomixes.com/2011/08/sigma-79-mixed-by-dj-sigma.html
http://fleamarketfunk.com/2011/07/27/dj-sigma-presents-79-a-mix-of-hip-hop-tracks-released-in-1979/

Traffic from those 2 sites accounts for the bulk of the 3,000 or so listens that the mix got.

Kingbob182
05-13-2012, 10:57 PM
For mixes as in live sets. Make sure you tag it right. Add tags like "live, dj se,t djset, mix, demo, mixtape"
And add the names of artists in your mix who people are likely to search. I have searched for mixed by Downloadable only in the past. If others do this too, making it Downloadable will help.

People have mentioned that you can share with groups and un-share/re-share and mixes are no different. Find some groups specifically for your mixes with a lot of users and share your mixes with them.

Add to the description "this is a free download but I'd appreciate some feedback in the comments section."

I thought this would be a pointless idea but I did it on a mix I made and received lots of comments.
But my comments dropped way back down when I removed it because I needed more space

Fred McLovin
05-13-2012, 11:26 PM
@ fred what i was referring to was you coming in accusing people of things, and being on beatport doesn't exclude you from being lame.

I had my reason for accusing people, now it's all sorted out... Stop arguing please

ChrisHynds
05-14-2012, 03:14 AM
All of my radio shows have managed to break the 1000 plays barrier, which Im really stoked about, I used to only get about 100 plays for each of my older sets before I started using SC properly :) I have also managed to get in touch with some of the "Big name" artists via SC to get them to drop voice overs for my shows too :)

Kingbob182
05-15-2012, 07:12 AM
+1 for the advice in this thread. If you can put up with the bullshit arguments, you'll find some good tips.
I hit a personal highest play count for last week and am looking like smashing that this week already. My newest tracks have almost the same plays as my older ones in about a tenth of the the time. I suppose thatgs about a 1000% improvement.
Keep in mind I was doing very very little to promote my tracks earlier and am now spending about 30mins a day.
Its not much but Just letting you guys know.

Era 7
05-17-2012, 01:05 PM
just had one of my mixes reach 100 plays :dance:

Kingbob182
05-18-2012, 01:25 AM
http://img.tapatalk.com/95879158-f06c-225d.jpgSmashing my old best weekly stats. Used to have a high of 96 downloads. This week killing that already and look like finally breaking the 500 plays mark and hopefully hitting the 650 area.

Also got about 8 more followers since last week so I'm moving up

Funkyfader
05-18-2012, 11:22 AM
^ you could get these stats on housemixes in 2 months without effort

moyo wilde
05-23-2012, 08:04 AM
anybody on the beta. i just got on it and i can't find the dashboard page that updates when people you follow leave comments on tracks anymore. anyone know how to find it?

electrodance124
05-23-2012, 11:50 AM
FREE EP from DATABOY! About to break out onto the pop/electro scene...take a minute and listen!

http://www.facebook.com/DATABOYmusic/app_108468622525037

Era 7
05-23-2012, 12:29 PM
anybody on the beta. i just got on it and i can't find the dashboard page that updates when people you follow leave comments on tracks anymore. anyone know how to find it?

yeah i'm in. they said something about features that are still missing and will be added in later. maybe that one is among the missing things. right now i can't find it either.

EDIT: but you can still just go back to classic and check it there. just hit the "about" button and click "back to classic" in the top left corner. you can go back to the beta whenever you want with the link you recieved with the e-mail.

farhanashraf
05-25-2012, 06:11 AM
just got a notification that his soundcloud downloads are reaching the limit, please dl while u can! http://soundcloud.com/djfarhanashraf/dj-farhan-tufts-radio-house#

Mixxed
05-25-2012, 06:49 AM
I've never shared in a group... Or been in a group for that matter. I go strictly off of advertising my mixes on Twitter and Facebook. Oh, and I definitely post on StumbleUpon. Gotten a chance to expand to a whole diff network of people I would have otherwise never reached. I posted my latest mix 3 days ago and I checked on it last night, already had 100 listens! That's a nice achievement in my book!

Sigma
05-25-2012, 11:10 AM
Sharing to groups had little effect for me. It gave me a negligible boost in listens (and we're only talking 10-30 extra listens a week).

That's not to say that it can't work, but SoundCloud makes it difficult to find big groups of a certain genre as you can't sort them by size. In my case, it just seemed like more hassle than it was worth.

Ivry
05-25-2012, 02:19 PM
^ you could get these stats on housemixes in 2 months without effort
This site?
www.house-mixes.com

farhanashraf
05-28-2012, 06:21 AM
my last mix i made in US before i moved halfway across the world. i think you will like the tracklist, check it out: http://soundcloud.com/faru_123/dj-ashes-farewell-mix

electrodance124
06-26-2012, 03:23 PM
DATABOY dropped their album today and its a must if you like Calvin Harris, The Knocks, Dev…great electro-pop/hip-pop! check it out streaming here: http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds#/17

farhanashraf
06-27-2012, 01:43 AM
getting ready to party in paris baby, SYNERGY Events style. Feel free to dl and have a listen, tracklist included: http://soundcloud.com/djfarhizzay/dj-farhan-party-in-paris-mix

Grifff
09-25-2012, 10:53 AM
Ellissentials, is there any fast track way to remove your mix from the group to repost it? Currently I'm "ctrl + f"ing my mixes name in the group to remove it. In some of the bigger groups it's taking ages lol

Sigma
09-25-2012, 12:14 PM
Ellissentials, is there any fast track way to remove your mix from the group to repost it? Currently I'm "ctrl + f"ing my mixes name in the group to remove it. In some of the bigger groups it's taking ages lol
Look at the top of the player for your mix/track. Click on the "Share to group" option: -

http://i.imgur.com/tfX9J.jpg

All of the groups you're in will be listed there. Clicking a group name shares the mix/track to that group. Clicking it again unshares it. So you can just go down the list, clicking on each group to remove the mix/track from that group, then repeat that process to re-share it.

dj daywalker
09-25-2012, 12:58 PM
This mix has 97 downloads in a week. My previous mix from 6 months ago only has like 40. The downloads to listens ratio is HUGE.

TIP: Once the counter reset for "this week" I put a button thats says "Download" that just goes to the soundcloud download link, and since then the ratio is almost half (51 plays 24 downloads). I guess people that aren't familiar with soundcloud have trouble finding the download link.

http://soundcloud.com/dj_daywalker/dj-daywalker-progressive-house

Mixxed
09-25-2012, 01:34 PM
Another Tip (I don't know if it was mentioned in one of the previous pages)...

DEFINITELY share your tracks through the StumbleUpon option... I've gotten people from all around the world who have "liked" my mixes, and I assume most all of them are from StumbleUpon... Sometimes I get spikes in older mixes, could be from your mix being randomly featured somewhere in StumbleUpon. :tup:

Grifff
09-25-2012, 05:16 PM
@Sigma, thanks! That really cuts down the time

@Mixxed, how do you share to stumbleupon? I had a quick look before, but I'm new to that website

Edit: I found out how to. Link's here (http://www.stumbleupon.com/help/report/spam-and-adding-pages/) for anyone else interested

Kingbob182
01-15-2013, 05:22 AM
Just hit 17,000 plays and 135 followers
thrilled.

Ellissentials
01-15-2013, 05:47 AM
Oh cheers Kingbob! This is great to hear!

I'm coming up on 30,000 plays and just broke over 1,500 followers a few days ago :dance:


Check in the general forum for my "Free SC Promotion? Yes!" thread if anyone is interested in helping these stats :tup:





Cheers again to everyone who's meeting their own milestones! :D

Sigma
01-15-2013, 09:03 AM
One of my mixes broke the 3,000 listens barrier today, which is pretty good.

http://i.imgur.com/7ba7W.jpg

http://soundcloud.com/deejaysigma/79-a-mix-of-hip-hop-tracks
This broke 4,000 plays last week: -

http://i.imgur.com/Myd5H.jpg

theonlybman
01-15-2013, 04:19 PM
I do love me some soundcloud, but this thread has a bit of an advertisement feel to it.

Ellissentials
02-15-2013, 07:42 AM
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8521/8475208075_f2a5bab4da.jpg

I hit 30,000 plays and a few from 1600 followers. I expect this number to easily double this year. :D

Jamie D Music
02-15-2013, 02:13 PM
I created a soundcloud account when I got frustrated with the 15 minute time limit on youtube but when that restriction was lifted from my channel I stopped using soundcloud completely. I have just two uploads and a big achievement for me is video has got one like. I was chuffed when I saw that because I thought if just one person likes it then that's good enough for me!

I really should start using it more and I'm happy to pay for extras on the site as it's a more targeted community than youtube. The problem with youtube is the search engine is so big it can be hard to get your videos seen even if you put in a lot of effort. There are ways of getting targeted hits by paying for them or monitising the account but I've never done that. I recently spent time reading up on SEO and when I gave all my youtube vids a a face lift by re-writing all the titles, descriptions and maxing out the tags for each one my hits went through the roof. Another good method is using video responses because this can get your video advertised on the same page as one thats had millions of hits and gets thousands of hits daily. Does soundcloud have something similar to video responses and what is the difference between soundcloud and mixcloud? If I only have mixes should I use mixcloud or is the community smaller so the hits will be lower? Or is the same database used for both?

I've wanted to learn more about soundcloud and get a decent channel running for a while and this thread has pursuaded me to get cracking.

Austin GoGreen
02-15-2013, 02:26 PM
In the last 12 days I got 2300+ listens, 241 dl's... I joined SC two months ago and have 13000 total listens. At this pace, I'm projected to get a million listens in 24 years!

drop1
02-15-2013, 02:30 PM
In the last 12 days I got 2300+ listens, 241 dl's... I joined SC two months ago and have 13000 total listens. At this pace, I'm projected to get a million listens in 24 years!

Must be nice, I'm somewhere around 850 listens in 4 years :lol:

Blue Shoes
03-07-2013, 05:18 PM
http://i.imgur.com/aQHMgAv.png
Only had this SC account for 6 weeks or so but slowly getting more plays and followers. Only 10am here and today I already have more plays than yesterday. Things might be picking up!

Blue Shoes
03-30-2013, 09:03 PM
Well, I re-invented myself 2 months ago. Started producing and it seems I've already come out with a hit track. One of my remixes just hit 1000 plays this morning and has 365 downloads already!

Its the last day of the month and I'm at about 2,500 total plays for March and should be at 600 downloads by midnight. I didn't expect things to go so well. Now I'm hunting for my next project.

Funkyfader
03-31-2013, 02:16 PM
I hit 20k plays about a week ago!
http://i.imgur.com/NUHaBfA.jpg

djromanj
03-31-2013, 03:35 PM
I really should start posting more mixes.

same!

aaron altar
03-31-2013, 08:25 PM
This site?
www.house-mixes.com

I know this is really old but just as an FYI since someone necro'd it. House-mixes stats aren't really legit from what I can tell. It seems to count a listen every time someone clicks on the mix, even if it's yourself, instead of counting a listen when people hit play.

ChrisHynds
03-31-2013, 09:08 PM
Recognise any big names? Unless your a Trance head you probably wont but I received an E-mail from "John 00 Fleming" about this set, and its been played by quite a few big name Trance producers as you can see in the list, probably one of my biggest achievements to date from Soundcloud :)

http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh593/chrishynds_dj/Screenshot2013-04-01at100247AM_zpse021a4b9.png

My total plays are almost at 25'000 for the year, pretty pumped about that, each upload usually get around 1200-1500 plays in just over 1 month. Although I have found since Soundcloud have changed their site and sharing policy my track counts are taking much longer to hit the 1200-1500 plays, anyone else notice this?

M!TCH
03-31-2013, 10:03 PM
^^ can barely see the names even if I zoom in on my Mac

aaron altar
04-01-2013, 08:08 PM
Recognise any big names? Unless your a Trance head you probably wont but I received an E-mail from "John 00 Fleming" about this set, and its been played by quite a few big name Trance producers as you can see in the list, probably one of my biggest achievements to date from Soundcloud :)

http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh593/chrishynds_dj/Screenshot2013-04-01at100247AM_zpse021a4b9.png

My total plays are almost at 25'000 for the year, pretty pumped about that, each upload usually get around 1200-1500 plays in just over 1 month. Although I have found since Soundcloud have changed their site and sharing policy my track counts are taking much longer to hit the 1200-1500 plays, anyone else notice this?

I recognize a few names there. Congrats on John 00 Fleming emailing you, that's something to be proud of. I got follows from Lish and DJ Pierre. I was pretty happy about both of those.

ChrisHynds
04-02-2013, 03:31 AM
^^ can barely see the names even if I zoom in on my Mac

JOOF/Airwvae/Basil O'Glue/Temple One/Aaron Camz have all checked out that track not sure if you can make them out it is a pretty small screen shot :(
(

thehadgi
04-07-2013, 02:05 AM
i got 15 plays in three hours. pretty good for me :D

JackStalk
04-08-2013, 01:34 PM
somebody followed me today ^_^

Dj DRPX
04-08-2013, 02:35 PM
Reached 40 plays in a single day yesterday when I released a new remix. I also just entered into my first remix competition on soundclound, so I'm really hyped about that.

thehadgi
04-08-2013, 03:46 PM
somebody followed me today ^_^

Lol those are big days for me too :lol:

Baller95
04-08-2013, 03:59 PM
somebody followed me today ^_^


Lol those are big days for me too :lol:

Me three! :P :lol:

Sigma
05-08-2013, 11:22 AM
I crossed the 10,000 plays line today: -

http://i.imgur.com/6M49I8M.jpg

alexreedDJ
05-08-2013, 11:33 AM
Errm i got 1,000 plays on m account...


:unamused:

thehadgi
05-26-2013, 09:59 AM
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/26/a3avazyv.jpg

Era 7
05-26-2013, 10:49 AM
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/26/a3avazyv.jpg

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/538/732/3c1.gif

Zafire
05-26-2013, 01:02 PM
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/538/732/3c1.gif

:lol:

DJ Riddims
05-27-2013, 12:31 PM
My Rihanna mix reached the 100 download limit and 100 likes.
By the way does anyone know how to get the facebook icon next to the download link? I see it on on some peoples' accounts. I'm guessing it requires a pro account.

Blue Shoes
05-29-2013, 02:28 AM
http://i.imgur.com/EkHqdSW.png?1
May has been my best month to day for Downloads, Plays, Followers and Comments. Likes are 1 down from last month but there's still 2 more days

Pretty happy given that I went through and removed a lot of music that didn't best represent me last week.

https://soundcloud.com/blue-shoes
If you wanna check any out.

Dj DRPX
05-29-2013, 08:00 AM
I got over 80 plays in a single day when I released a new remix. It's the most I've ever gotten in one day. The next day I managed to hit 60 plays as well, and I picked up like 8 followers since putting out the remix. Pretty good month for my soundcloud.

Sigma
09-04-2013, 09:22 AM
This became my first (and probably only, lol) mix to cross 5,000 plays/1,500 downloads yesterday: -

https://soundcloud.com/deejaysigma/79-a-mix-of-hip-hop-tracks