Insights and such

Boy No. 1, who is now twenty-one and knows more than his father about such things, says it’s all about the algorithms. I am still hoping that Crack: A Tone Poem has in fact reached the people SoundCloud’s insights page is telling me it has reached. They are…

…in the US 53 listeners; in Australia 22 listeners; in the UK 15; in Germany 13; 9 each in Brazil, Russia, Canada, and Ukraine; 8 in Italy; 7 in Egypt; 6 each in The Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, and Mexico; 5 each in Ireland, Poland, and Viet Nam; 4 each in France, India, Israel, and The Netherlands; 3 each in Indonesia, Pakistan, Norway, and Sweden; 2 each in Austria, Chile, Georgia, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Turkey, UAE, and Uzbekistan; and single listeners in Bahrain, Belarus, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Kuwait, Lithuania, Morocco, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, and the Philippines.

This is supposed to be the “pre-release” (limited to the free SoundCloud and Jamendo streaming sites), and it is only in the last four days. The “real” release takes place on August 24 and will go to all the major streaming platforms. A bit unsettling this almost immediate global spread, a dissemination that could easily empty one out if one were not caring for the source.

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