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The Week Song — Highlighting one song, every week
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Do you have plans to give at least one link to the artist? A truly great song leaves a new fan wanting. I love the minimalism though, maybe it would just lead to too much. If it moves a new fan to search them out, then search it is.
@even_dave You can ask for the songs infos from the menu and we'll send you the whol package about the artist, including a link to keep it close to your ears.
Nice concept. I see you use the SC API. Why not link back to the track easily so creators can benefit on the source platform?
@colemercer we link to the artist's SC with a personal little speech about the band if someone ask infos from the menu. The idea is to track the degree of "loveness" of the song with an other metric than a simple like. If you ask infos, you really like it.
Really nice concept. One of our clients is doing the same thing on the daily https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
@shayanegredoire I wouldn't wait much longer on adding the email form, you're missing a great chance to build strong user base via newsletter with your PH launch. A modal at the end of the song would be a great place to snag it. :)
@frantzlight @shayanegredoire Actually you can subscribe by asking infos, but we'll add a subscribe button!
Take it from me- YOU WANT THOSE EMAIL ADDRESSES. Collect as many as you can- there's no greater marketing tool than someone's inbox. But I'm confused why you ask for the email again if the user gives their email to access the app. I can't be sure this is how it works because it's been about 4min and the app hasn't loaded yet. Maybe PH crashed it? Also know of a daily version of this idea called A Song A Day by @shannnonb
Hi @stephmacc , The Week Song and The Best Song are 2 separated things, some people won't use our app and just want to get the weekly music nugget, that's why we need to bond with them also. The Best Song is more like a fast-building playlist radio. Weird that the app does not load, we just verified and we works. What is your device ? how did you connect ? maybe you should delete it and take it again.
@adrienmoret how come only once a week? I'm all for "slow discovery" but once a day seems like the right cadence.
@rrhoover We want to give the artist more than a day of exposure for a start. A day might be short to help an emerging artist getting the visibility he deserves. But if we see that the first day is enough to do real emphasizing job we'll do it once a day.
@adrienmoret @rrhoover but limiting to 1/week limits the chance that people will remember you and remember to check you out every week
@_jacksmith @rrhoover You're totally right, but finding an incredible song not shazamable every day is not that easy :) We'll add the "subscribe by email" possibility as a first step
@_jacksmith @adrienmoret @rrhoover I agree with this sentiment. The problem with the timing imo is that it leads to forgetting and thus seems not to be ideal for creating a communal effect. While discoverability is definitely a great thing to have, both as a consumer and as an artist, it doesn't fill the entire void between those two demographics. Community supersedes discovery at a certain point because it includes it and focuses it towards a more dynamic end.
Anyone who knows me knows I love the idea here of spotlighting independent artists. However, there are SO many artists to highlight, that I think the only conducive way to do so long term is to cultivate a community that has a longevity built into it.
We'll try to highlight very different music styles, showcasing the most kept/liked songs from our app "The Best Song" which are still totally unknown!
Well done guys!
Simple and useful, seems natural.
Nevertheless, I agree that only one song a week will not encourage user to come back but still it is a very nice way to discover new tunes.
@matthieudeluze The thing is that finding incredible unknown songs every day (the kind of songs you love but you can't Shazam) is not that easy :) But we'll add the "subscribe by email" possibility as a first step and next step will be the possibility to create an account to listen to past songs as playlist for examples. And maybe if we have a lot of good songs each day coming to us we'll share more than once a week.
Just subscribed to the email list. I'll have to wait some weeks to check how good are the songs before upvoting :)
Please keep the weekly schedule. It's really refreshing to find a website that doesn't want your eyeballs every day, but simply wants to do one thing and do it well. It might be true that some people will forget about it this way, but there's a growing number of people appreciating this kind of thing. So it's probably more of a shift in traget users rather than a strict narrowing.
Don't know what to think about the required mail sign-up if you want infos about the song though. I can see why you're doing it, but as a user it's a huge hassle. And since I'm trying to cut down on newsletters and mails in general I'll probably not sign up. So this way, it suddenly isn't about the artist anymore, but simply about you trying to do some free marketing for your (cool looking) app and me listing to a piece of music without the possibility to support the artist.
Still, keep up the good work. Music could really use some good curating with a focus not on categorizing huge amounts of music into giant playlists, but on cutting down the options.
Hi @jonasmerlins ! Thank you for taking the time to write this and for your vision. The sign-up is not about free marketing for our app because we have more audience with The Best Song than The Week Song. It's the opposite, we want to give the audience we have with The Best Song to one artist each week. But we wanted to try something so minimal you can't be influenced by any name during the listening. The "Ask infos" feature is about creating a new way to hunt the level of "loveness" of a track, something more meaningful than a simple like. Then after we send by email a whole package about the artist, not just his name. But maybe there is a better way to do it in the future, we just launched yesterday we still have a lot to do to create a batter music curation. Thanks again.
@adrienmoret Okay, I can see where you’re coming from and really like the idea of a distraction free experience I have to commit to, with the potential for more valuable information. My problem is mainly that the user is not only getting information about the artist, but onto your mailing list as well.
A very powerful move would be a well placed, clear guarantee that this interaction is a one-off thing, with a way to opt in to future correspondence.
@jonasmerlins You're right. The best thing would be to send users infos about the song, saying that we'll update them every week when a new song is coming, but that they can unsuscribe if they don't want to stay in our mailing list.
@jonasmerlins I agree here. The forced signup is a huge barrier to entry that both deters me as a user and would deter me as an artist. Many artists I speak to are averse to this sort of funneling because it provides an unnecessary obstacle for people to find their music. The weekly feature is nice, but with so many amazing songs and artists to choose from, I wonder how it can be done fairly, which might be another drawback for artists who are not featured.
@adammarx13 @jonasmerlins Hi Adam, thanks for your point of view. I have to say that finding amazing unknown songs that can't be Shazamable or found on Spotify etc. is really not that easy, and it's been years since I work in the music discovery field! It's the absolute hunt.
Love the idea and the fact that there's space between songs for each to be shared/reshared. I'm curious to see if the choice of songs will be 'easy listening' or 'popular' in tone etc. - what is the kind of song that a larger section of people are likely to keep coming back to listen to over and over again? And will i be able to listen to last weeks' song? If i create an account - over time do i create my own playlists?
@karn_malhotra We'll share only very little-known nuggets songs but in every music genre. You'll see that next week will be very different ;)
I love the "hamburger menu"! And agree with below. Featuring one song per week will probably mean that it won't be part of my routine checking the site.
@bakelita Hi Anders ! you're totally right that it's hard to create a "once a week" routine, that's why we'll add a subscribe button. But it's harder finding a incredible song lost in the ocean of music every day. At first we'll choose quality over quantity and then after if we have a lot of good suggestions maybe once a day will become a possibility, we'll see with what we'll have.
@bakelita Also we'll add the possibility to create an account to save your favorites and listen to past songs as playlist for examples.
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