Well, it’s almost a year on Youtube now, and I’ve been thinking about what I’ve achieved so far. In my opinion, not very much. In relation to lots of others, the Youtube progress is probably quite good, but not as far as my aspirations are concerned. I’m only about 250 subscribers outside the top 100 UK musicians of all time. That appears to be great, but it’s not supported me financially at all.
I’m a singer/songwriter. I write what I think are pretty good songs, and that’s been confirmed by some good friends and music industry professionals. I consider that at the age of 42, I’m not a teenager anymore. So I’m not aiming to be a performer. The obvious path is to be a songwriter, and then promote my songs to signed bands. In the hope that they would want to record some of my material. Age doesn’t matter. As long as you pen good songs that artists will want to sing and record.
This all came about from seeing the Jonathan ross show yesterday evening. The featured guest was Mr Neil Diamond. He started his career as a songwriter. Writing great songs, such as “I’m a believer”, which was a hit for “The Monkees”. It would be nice to have 1 percent of his success. Neil is someone that my vocals have been strongly compared to.
So I’m not giving up. It’s true to say that the longer you make that effort. The more credibility you have in the industry. The more songs you write, the bigger the chance of someone picking one of them up. I’ve recorded over 100 songs now, but I’ve only put out about 20 of them. I’m even in the middle of writing a new song at the moment!
Here’s some advice for aspiring songwriters. Don’t ever give up. It might come to nothing, but at least if you try. You’ll know whether you could have made it or not. That’s much better than not knowing at all, and looking back and wondering what if?
If money is an issue, then it can be an enormous sacrifice. You can get to the stage where you have virtually nothing. If you are determined enough then you will not let that affect your efforts.
I’m going to finish this post with a link to my Youtube channel, and the current Youtube stats.
Here is my channel. You can listen to some of my original songs there.
My Subscribers = 621
My Channel views are 13,352
Total video views are 195,657
I’m going to be building the basic structure around my new song today, so I’ll enjoy that.
Until my next post 
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