January 31, 2005
starting with a bullet
January 2005 has been by far my best month for song downloads from my site. So good, in fact, my host is sending me messages that I have gone over my limit of 1G/month (~200 songs). This is a bit strange as I haven't released a song for a while. Usually, I see spikes in traffic when I release something new as my loyal and dedicated fan base is chomping at the bit for new stuff(!), but this time something is clearly different. Could this mean that the word is spreading a bit? Could this mean that somehow I am becoming more popular? Wow, these are crazy thoughts, and I do not want to get carried away, but numbers don't lie. They only confuse.
Here are my Top Ten Downloaded songs for January:
1 78,720KB heavy_weather.mp3
2 73,788KB imposters_of_memory.mp3
3 71,322KB my_sister's_getting_married.mp3
4 54,507KB your_smile.mp3
5 52,842KB song_to_my_spider.mp3
6 47,051KB from_us_to_me.mp3
7 46,426KB predictable.mp3
8 44,356KB wants.mp3
9 44,233KB hungary_yuck.mp3
10 43,545KB leaf.mp3
I find some of these numbers not at all surprising, and some totally startling.
Posted by halsey at January 31, 2005 10:22 AMWhat do the numbers mean? I imagine good things, but what type of good things?
Posted by: tanja at February 1, 2005 08:04 AMwell, specifically, they indicate the kilobytes downloaded of the respective files. but what is probably more useful to know, is that, on average, my songs are around 5000KB, so doing the division lets you see how many downloads of that song happened in the month.
it seems more impressive to have those five digit suckers up there rather than mere two digit song download numbers!
Posted by: halsey at February 1, 2005 04:39 PMDon't know if it's had any effect, but I've been showing the demo videos to just about anyone that comes to my apartment. ;-)
every little bit helps!!
of course, once the video is no longer 'demo' and is posted on the byov site, it will *really* start boosting the downloads.
Yeah, I know. I'm working on it.
I'm actually hoping that we can go live with it by end of next week. Although, I can't possibly consider it complete without 2,000 images of the booth set up in really random places. ;-)
