What’s happening
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.
Basically, I’m a singer/songwriter. I write what I consider to be good songs, and that’s been backed up by good friends and 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 like them enough to want to record and release them. It doesn’t matter what age you are. As long as you write good songs that people will want to sing.
This reflection came about from watching the Jonathan ross show last night. The main guest was Neil Diamond. This is a man that started out as a songwriter. Writing such classics as “I’m a believer”, which was made famous by “The Monkees”. I’d be more than happy with 1 percent of Neil’s success. Out of all singers in this world. My voice has been compared the most to Neil Diamond.
So I’m not throwing in the towel yet. It’s true that the longer you make an effort. The more credible you become to the music 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!
Some advice to songwriters. Never, 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
My Total video views are 195,657
I’m going to be recording some of my new song today, so I’ll be enjoying that.
Until next time 
