TOP 5 TIPS FOR UP AND COMING ARTISTES

If you are an artiste or you know an artiste, either popular or still up and coming, this post could be of help in making your music or their music known and acceptable to fans and the industry at large.

     

      The very first tip is to have a very catchy or beautiful album art. As little as this detail maybe, it is also very important and key. Most people that don’t know you as an artiste might just come across your music and see your album art and on seeing it, they like it and they download your music. I personally do this sometimes so in summary make your album art very catchy, relatable and beautiful. 

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     Secondly, your beat. Pay for that expensive producer who would give you quality in sound and don’t go for that your guy who produces in his room and uses earphones to listen to his beats. Also know your producer and let your producer know you. Take a look at “Davido”, when he was still up and coming, He worked with “Shizzi” (a producer) for all his singles and even his first album “Omo Baba Olowo The Genesis” why, because “shizzi” knew his art and he knew “shizzi”."Wizkid"too also worked with "Samklef" for his first studio album, "Star Boy".

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          Furthermore, Understand Yourself and Your art. Most up and coming artistes believe the concept of the more you drop a song, the more popular you become forgetting that what works for artiste “A” might not work for Artiste “B”. Know what you are good at. Know the genre that is your strong point. Maybe it’s “Hip-Hop”, “RnB”, “Alternative” and so on. You might not even be a good singer but a good writer and make a lot of money from writing songs for artistes. So therefore, discover your art and let it take you places.

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           In addition to understanding yourself and your art, the fourth tip is that you should understand your fans. As an artiste, know what your fans want because you are not just an artiste, you are like a brand who has competitors who are also competing for your fans. So therefore, you must always make sure you deliver quality to them. If “Shaku Shaku” is the new wave, give them, If it’s a love season, give them something about love, If it’s a season of self growth give them songs that will make them appreciate themselves and if you keep doing this, you are gradually winning the heart of your fans.

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          Lastly the 5^th tip is a major advice to you as an artiste. Don’t be a one way artiste. Be relatable. The reason why people love “Maleek Berry”, “Simi” and “Adekunle Gold” is because they sing songs that people can relate to. Don’t let all your songs be about money or girls and assets. Don’t sing that you have 1 million somewhere when you begged the producer to give you the beat for free. Sing songs that affect the everyday person. You could sing about happiness, peace, success, love, God, heart break, everyday suffering and many more.

      

     That would be all for now. I hope my tips were able to help you in one way or the other. See you on the next post.