Which of my unreleased songs will people like? I have no idea. Friends and family aren’t much help either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fortunately, I’m able to get unbiased feedback from fans of my genre\u00a0through ReverbNation’s\u00a0Crowd Review, which has been completely overhauled since\u00a0ReverbNation’s acquisition of Audiokite last November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To call this market research simply “helpful” would be a gross understatement. My last report precipitated a complete overhaul of not just my marketing plan, but my entire album concept.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I’d been in the process of setting up collaborations with some of the better-known synthwave artists. My plan was to put together a bunch of song demos with finished vocals, and have them redo the underlying instrumentals in their own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Problem was, I didn’t have any collaborations locked down yet, and I needed material to release on my newly launched Patreon<\/a> page. That got me wondering what I could do to spruce up one of my demos for release to my patrons. Enter Crowd Review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To my surprise, the demo \u2014 vocals over a drum loop plus four synth tracks \u2014 scored the highest by far out of a dozen previous submissions. It ranked in the 89th percentile of all songs analyzed by Crowd Review. 74% of listeners said they would want to hear the song again, versus a 33% average across the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n