Hey, my name is Nika Comet and I'm a frontwoman for Chase the Comet. I recorded
this video to share my experience of how to make your band famous because that's
what I'm doing with my band: I'm trying to make it work, I'm trying to deliver my
music to the music listeners all around the world and that's why I
thought you might be interested to hear some tips that will help you to get your
music out there. So the first thing and the most important thing: you've got to
start doing things! Stop sitting and wasting your time, stop complaining about
how hard it is! I've met a lot of people who just said: oh it's so hard... No it's not
f*king hard! You just have to do stuff, you have to get your ass and start
creating things, start getting them out there and stop looking for obstacles!
That's what people do - they look for obstacles and justifications! So the
first thing, as I said, you need to start doing things, okay? What things? You want
to get your music out there, you want to get your band famous. What do you
usually bands do to get famous? You know the answer right? They record music, they
release songs, they go on tour. This is it! I will try to record some more videos
telling you about those things, how to do those things but you can start right now!
You can start doing things, okay? That's the most important thing. Let's go
further. The second important thing is: stop trying to make music for people in
the music industry. I'll tell you honestly: that was my very big problem
because I always thought that someone should discover me,
someone should help me, someone should invest money cuz I don't have money. I
think you don't either. So neither of us has money, neither of us has connections:
like you don't know any famous person who would just say: Hey do you want to be
on tour with me? And you're like: Yeah, sure, why not? No that's not gonna happen,
dude, forget about it! Someone possibly will help you at some point and we all
know a lot of bands or musicians or artists who had help from outside
but if you just sit on your butt no one's gonna help you, okay? Because
there's thousands and thousands of people who just sit on their butts, do
nothing and complain about life. You don't want to be one of those people
because that will not get you anywhere. So as I said you should never wait for
someone to do something for you. I've been there for many, many years - I was
sending thousands and thousands of emails to labels, to producers. You don't
want to spend your time on that, you don't. People who work in the industry
are not interested to hear your music unless you make hundreds of dollars on
this music, okay? If you don't, if you just create music because you can't live
without it, because you think it's art - just deliver it to the music fans.
This is important. Stop wasting your time on trying to deliver your music to the
music industry professionals, you will just get frustrated and you'll just
waste your time. At that same time you can deliver it to those who will really
appreciate it - the music fans all over the world. How to do it? If you know a few
friends who listen to Linkin Park and you make music that sounds something
like Linkin Park just tell them about that! Say: Hey do you want to check out my
music? I know you love Linkin Park! This is a cool shirt, you
like Iron Maiden? My band plays something like Iron Maiden, do you want to
check it out? Just give it out to people, don't expect them to buy it
right away. Don't expect them to do something
in return for you, just give it to people! That's why people upload
music to streaming services nowadays. You don't get any income from streaming
services unless you're Katy Perry (though I know that
most of that income is taken by the label so the artist doesn't even get a
lot of the money) but that's the point - just make it available for people.
Another thing. I started talking about Iron Maiden right? So everyone knows Iron Maiden
or Metallica or Nirvana and every time we see someone wearing their shirts
we're like: "I like your shirt, cool band" and everybody seems to know them... Why? Because
these guys have been there for years! they've been doing sh*t since like the
last century! Like they they didn't become famous
yesterday or something like that! There's no such thing as
waking up famous, there's no such thing! You got to work on it for years and if
you discovered someone a month ago and they have million hits on YouTube, it
didn't happen the day before you discovered them. You know they had been
working on it for years for a long time before they got big, relatively big,
everything is relative you know that too right? So give it time. If you started
doing sh*t and you don't see any result, don't start complaining. Why I'm saying
this because I was like this I was doing it for a long time - I was complaining
about things not working for me, I was talking to people and we were discussing
how hard it is to get our music out there. We were not getting any people to
our shows, you know and what did it make us think? That life is unfair.
No that's not true! It's just you got to do something and you got to give it time so
if you started promoting you band two months ago and you don't have million
hits on YouTube it's fine! It's obvious! you're not gonna get such a fast result.
Of course I know what you're gonna say. You're gonna say: oh but there's some
people who go viral with their videos. Well, that happens too sometimes, it
happens but if it doesn't happen to you, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do it or
it doesn't mean your strategy's not working. I don't have a million hits on
YouTube but I've got some and I'm grateful for those because people are
interested to hear what I music I make, to see my videos and the same is
gonna be with you if you just start creating. I used to judge what I was
doing a lot and for the first
ten years I would say I was always feeling miserable because nothing was
happening but when something is happening you should be able to see that
tiny little step ahead that you've made because that will give you the
motivation to move forward, to do something else. But when you do not see
it it won't give you any motivation, you will be just there complaining about
things not working your way. You know you don't want that. You want to see those
little steps okay? You released a song and let's say ten people listened to it on
Spotify. That's the result. Because before there were no people who knew about you
so 10 people is already a very big growth and you should be able to see
that even if it's really small. Because it's really small in the beginning. So
I've been talking for a long time already and I gave you three hints
that I think are the most important when you're trying to get your music out
there. Thank you so much for watching, subscribe and I'll definitely record
more videos. This was Nika Comet from Chase the Comet. Have a great day and I'll
see you there, on stage!
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