It’s just too expensive (financially and emotionally) to take the show on the road unless you have a show worth taking on the road.
***But if you haven’t played two hundred shows, go out and do that immediately.
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That’s how many monthly listeners it takes on Spotify to where at least one person is listening to your music every second of every day.
And I bet most of you have way more monthly listeners than that.
So while you’re complaining that you’re not as huge as you want to be, that you didn’t get that big opportunity…every second of every day someone is listening to your music.
Your music is constantly being woven into other peoples’ world. It’s happening right now.
That’s pretty cool. It’s worth reminding yourself.
***Obviously that’s just Spotify and there’s lots of other ways to listen. But if you’re looking for a number that’s easy to see, there ya go. 14,400.
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The meeting is the most exciting part. It’s when you actually do the thing that everyone has their complicated opinions.
Start with action, not meetings. Most of what you would have talked about during the meeting will get discussed during all the little in-between moments anyway.
It’s so much easier to call a meeting than call to action. And in the moment calling the meeting feels a lot like action. It isn’t.
Be bold enough to not have meetings.
Be bold enough to have short meetings.
Be bold enough to take action in the face of wanting to call a meeting.
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Writing vulnerably is scary because you don’t know if it will be affirmed.
If you write about your marriage your best friends, if you name names and it isn’t a hit, now it’s just out there.
Because if you write a vulnerable song and no one cares, it feels like your vulnerability isn’t worth that much. And that really hurts.
It’s as though you told the world your secrets and the world yawned.
You’re willing to be vulnerable if it means you get to be famous for it.
But that’s not how it works. The vulnerability happens in the writing room, long before anyone is there to think you’re cool for being that honest.
Adele gets credit, money and fame for writing the vulnerable way she does. But what if you don’t get that much credit, money and fame? Because chances are you won’t. Are you still willing to lay it on the line? To write from the heart? To tell the truth?
I hope so.
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That’s the number of ticket buying fans you need in Nashville to sell out the Ryman.
So there’s no need to try and get Nashville to fall in love with you. You only need about one tenth of one percent of Nashville metro to fall in love with you and buy a ticket.
This is great news. Because there’s lots of groups and combinations of 2362 people and you only need one of them.
It’s not to say that selling out the Ryman is easy. It’s to say that you don’t have to be famous to do it. It’s to say that if you know what you need in order to satisfy your dream, it’s more likely you’ll figure out how to build it.
It’s not dream smaller or bigger, but clearer.
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A successful artist is one who has the rare ability to excite their team into action over and over again.
If your team isn’t working on your stuff, you won’t motivate them through complaining….you need to convince them through excitement that working on your stuff is the best choice.
Because if they see you as the best choice, why wouldn’t they work on your stuff?
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