#2760 - First $1,000: Mastering Spotify’s Algorithm with Bulk Uploads
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s “First $1K” segment, we hear from a music producer who found success on Spotify by writing and uploading niche songs across multiple accounts. Discover how this unconventional approach helps him earn several thousand dollars a month in royalties.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:23.9 | CODieK slash Special Offer. In this week's first $1,000 segment, we're going to hear from a music producer who found success on Spotify by writing and uploading niche songs across multiple accounts. |
| 0:46.0 | Niche songs, what am I talking about? |
| 0:48.0 | Well, he's doing all sorts of instrumental things. |
| 0:50.2 | He's doing, well he's just doing a bunch of stuff that is designed to effectively work very well with the algorithm. |
| 0:56.0 | So he's not like producing popular music. |
| 0:58.5 | He is investigating what people are searching for, trying to match his tracks to those search terms. |
| 1:04.0 | This has actually been very effective for him. |
| 1:05.5 | He's got an unconventional approach that helps him earn several thousand dollars a month in |
| 1:08.9 | royalties. |
| 1:09.9 | Great side project, I love it. |
| 1:11.5 | We're going to call it Mastering Spotify's algorithm with bulk |
| 1:14.1 | uploads. And of course the first thousand dollar segment is all about how somebody goes to get their |
| 1:19.5 | first thousand dollars. And then, you know, in this case, several thousand dollars a month. |
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