I don't know if any of you would have heard of him, but maybe you'd find this amusing - or encouraging.
Matt Farley has released thousands of songs with the goal of producing a result to match nearly anything anybody could think to search for.
Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
The answer involves a remarkable — and lucrative, and ridiculous — scheme to game the way we find music today.
Largely, though not entirely, on the strength of such songs, Farley has managed to achieve that most elusive of goals: a decent living creating music. In 2008, his search-engine optimization project took in $3,000; four years later, it had grown to $24,000.
“People like to criticize the whole streaming thing, but there’s really a lot of pros to it,” he said. Indeed, in 2023, his music earned him just shy of $200,000, about one halfpenny at a time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/m...tt-farley.html
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