Question: Is my music good enough to become popular?
Tom Hess's Answer: Although it is important to work to improve your songwriting skills, the quality of your music is NOT the biggest factor for how to make your music popular. If recording high quality music was the only factor to writing ‘hits’ and selling millions of records, there would be WAY more musical artists with gold and platinum records on their walls.
Fact is, making music is a BUSINESS. No matter what kind of music you make, there is most likely a market for it somewhere even if it is not in your country. Think of all the popular ‘punk’ bands that have sold a lot of records, made music videos and toured the world. Although these bands play very basic music, some have achieved very high levels of popularity. When you see bands or musical artists who have become popular like this, it comes from a MASSIVE amount of continuous effort on the part of both the musicians and the companies they work with to market and promote the music.
So, instead of asking yourself “Is my music good enough to become popular?” focus on consistently doing these 2 things:
- Consistently work on improving your songwriting skills (which I imagine you are doing already).
- (This is the part that you are probably not yet doing) You MUST study how the music business works and map out a strategy for reaching the goals that you want to realize in your music career. You will save yourself a lot of time, energy and frustration if you work with a proven music career mentor who has already trained others how to become successful in the music industry.
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