What is your most succesful tune?

pokk · 2024-02-10T11:56:05.626Z

Such a simple yet great question. On the surface a chance for everyone to share their wins, and a little deeper is shows everyone what success is for each of us, which is super valuable and transparent. I love this.

This one is probably our most successful in terms of quantity of sales and income, which is still very small. I assume this is largely due to all the people behind it fulfilling more roles across various creative areas, and the style being between rhythm and ambient/lowercase and referencing a certain era (1999-2000) electronic music.

This one sold the most copies but financially speaking cost us thousands…and for us that’s like the difference between surviving or being homeless, so a huge risk. Obviously nothing works in a vacuum and success in one, hopefully, spreads to others so we all do well, although crediting artists certainly does enable a more single purchase from a fan, over more general exploration of other music and supporting the whole label. This is one of the reasons we dropped artists, a counter to the me-me-me ego game.

And finally a personal favourite of mine and marking a “success” of a different kind, is the first release by my partner, who at this point wasn’t even sure if she “can write music”. She created it, and we released it over a weekend. Fast forward 10 years and she is doing really well, playing live shows often, releasing quite regularly, has some exciting projects line up this year, and is one of my favourite artists currently. Im super pleased with what she has achieved and my small role in supporting her makes me feel good. To me, this is succeeding.

muzka · 2024-02-10T12:18:58.359Z

I think on a personal level my biggest tune success was hearing someone play one of my releases in my fav club as their last tune and another time hearing a song of mine on the radio when in a taxi.

No clue how well they did or if they were ever played anywhere beyond those moments but in that moment in time I was happy hearing them and won’t forget it.

winrow3745 · 2024-02-10T13:30:24.947Z

I’m not sure which I’ve sold the most of.

But probably my proudest moment was one of my last tracks with my good friend Simon as Bill Payer & Fat Hippy called Moon Musik all the way back in 2004:
Bill Payer Fat Hippy - Moon Musik

BrokenGadget · 2024-02-10T13:46:31.591Z

People say my cover of Cage’s 4’33 was my most enjoyable output

schoolbabyboy · 2024-02-10T14:32:10.680Z

i gotta say that song does sound like it was made to be played in the background of this american life, it is so perfectly on point for that environment. very nice!

mabelsound · 2024-02-10T14:43:52.481Z

ha, thank you!

Chajin · 2024-02-10T18:50:10.026Z

I once made a track so powerful that it made an entire crowd of people disappear.

jdaddyaz · 2024-02-10T19:03:25.203Z

I don’t want to brag, but I’ve got one song that has 43 plays on Soundcloud.

J_C_SelectorV2 · 2024-02-10T19:17:31.602Z

I farted the other day and everyone laughed.

ThorntonForce · 2024-02-10T19:43:41.256Z

It’s funny - I’ve had a hand in so much music in my 41+ years, much as collabs or producing/recording other people’s work but my own output is not at all representative of the time and effort invested!

Now for a new approach. I am going to release a full album of my own material this year with no compromises. It’ll be good bedfellows this tune I made a long while ago which got some of the nicest feedback from people I respect.

Microtribe · 2024-02-10T20:15:42.271Z

I dunno what qualifies as successful these days. I just went and checked plays, sales etc…

I consider my last few albums to be my best work, theyve done alright i suppose. But eclipsed by this stupid video I did, 14,000 views.
Thats mental.

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pidgeo · 2024-02-10T20:17:34.569Z

and 303 views above. that deserves an honourable mention

jdaddyaz · 2024-02-10T20:45:24.884Z

Mike E. River?! I thought your name was Micro Tribe. You’ve been lying to us for years!

sseemmii · 2024-02-10T20:47:27.107Z

İ did this track 4 years ago watching lots of ned rush and i used maybe 4 tracks on Ableton. İ cant find the file and i cant rememler i how i did it but i wish i did more. İts my best played track.

tecker · 2024-02-10T20:52:35.890Z

My most popular tune by a long shot gets about twice as many plays or more than the #2 (both on soundcloud) on a monthly basis (yes I keep track :/) and is now around 5.5k plays. It’s four years old, nearing five, and I do think it’s among my best ones so it does make sense.

Kinda interesting still how much of a gap there is between it and the rest, and in particular everything recently uploaded.

ViolentMeals · 2024-02-11T18:45:19.771Z

This one broke 200 plays and I did a little dance. I’d finally made it to success.
The track has it all, sex, danger, and the sexy danger of an unlicensed sample.

TylerFrost · 2024-02-11T19:54:43.152Z

Made this tune some years ago.It was my first experiment with drum and bass,but I didn’t expect it to attract anyone’s attention.

Vague_versatile · 2024-02-11T20:09:33.088Z

Most listened track. One of the quickest I did…

I just looped 4 bars of moonlight sonata using moog minitaur as main instrument

Phillip · 2024-02-11T20:14:45.447Z

This is my biggest hit to date… Don’t know why YouTube music plays don’t count here but last time I checked it was well over 700.000 plays on YouTube music alone.

djst · 2024-02-11T20:38:27.595Z

Wouldn’t call it successful but the jam on the channel with the most views is one of the first ones I made.

Listening to it today, I’m reminded that mixing bass is hard.