Originally Posted by Bill Robinson
Ken
Someone might have "flagged" the song as being inappropriate for the channel. If Ourstage agrees they would move it.
I don't quite get it though. I have flagged a few and they never got moved and they were clearly NOT in the right channel or were copyright violations. Some are still there.
Go figure


Bill,
I think you're right! I think some folks may be using this flagging technique to get rid of certain songs. Could that be? I just had another song removed last week!! This time it was one of my "pop-iest" songs (a 3-minute love song, with a hooky chorus in 3-part harmony), and it was removed from "Indie-Pop" with the only explanation being that they (OurStage) were trying to find a "more appropriate" channel for it."

Here's the weird thing. My 1st song to be removed, "Agincourt," was #52 out of 833 (82nd percentile) in Indie Pop on July 7th, and had been "favorited." The next day it was removed! OurStage said they thought it would be more appropriate in Acoustic, so I moved it there, swapping it with "Everything that Matters," which at that time was 173rd out of 914 in Acoustic (81st percentile). Both songs moved into the 600+ positions (both now less than 10th percentile...with ETM now gone completely) in their new channels and have continued to plummet since.

So in summary, I had two songs after 1 week in the top 20% in their charts. Then they were removed for not being "appropriate" for those channels, and promptly fell to the bottom 10%, one of them continuing to plummet by the day.

I am still learning, definitely, about OurStage, and will attempt to do a better job matching genres (though that is so subjective...) and possibly re-mixing the entries to be "front-loaded" in terms of the first 15 seconds. It ought to be fun to experiment that way.

Oh well. You live, you learn.

Thanks for this forum!!!

Ken

Last edited by KenTheriot; 07/13/08 12:27 PM.
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