Those Rules You Made
What happens when you follow "the rules" of writing a hit song? Well Rhodri Marsden is attempting to find out. I'll let him explain...
The Schema challenge is to record, distribute and promote a single from my bedroom in a 30-day time frame. The resulting yacht-rock spectacular is called Those Rules You Made, and is released under the name The Schema on 20th August, via iTunes and a load of other online stores. This is the story... The Schema
So he recorded the song in his bedroom, put it out for the world to hear as a digital single, sent it off to various press interests to get some reviews, elicited some friends to create a music video last Saturday and has now posted the video on YouTube. The video went live on Tuesday, it is now Thursday morning. In less than two days it has now been viewed over 24,000 times. Eek!
As someone with an outside interest in the music industry and a respect for the DIY ideal, I'm very curious how far he can take this in 30 days.
Buy some: The Schema
Comments
hey, Liz.
I've actually gone a few days over my 30, but only 5 or so. We're up to 65,000 views, now. No idea how many MP3s I might sell - will be interesting to find out...
Posted by: Rhodri | August 23, 2007 10:49 AM
The viral nature of the web will never stop astounding me. You've received a further 40,000+ views since I wrote this blurb THIS MORNING?
nicely done rhodri. i hope this turns into some additional sales of the song.
ps. it was nice to meet you last time you were in chicago :p
Posted by: liz | August 23, 2007 01:23 PM
Up to 136,000 views now.
Posted by: Alex de Campi | August 24, 2007 02:41 AM