 I'm gonna tell you how to get your first fans as fast as I can, so you could build your fan base in a way that fans and the algorithm loves. First, we need to make a list of 20 to 100 artists whose fans would also like your music that have around 10,000 to 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Then it's time to grab a spreadsheet, like the free one I give away on my Ko-Fi page. The way we're gonna find all those artists is by searching on everynoise.com, which harvests Spotify data. On this site, when you type the artist's name, genres come up that they fall under that Spotify's given them. Write these genre names down as these are often great hashtags to use on TikTok and Instagram for your videos. Then as you hear artists similar to you, head to their Spotify. Then hit the fans also like section on their page. Now we wanna explore that and see if we find more similar artists that meet these qualifications and add them to your spreadsheet. As well, look at the playlist these artists are on and make sure to notate any that have an email for submissions and any that sound like you belong on them that are curated by Spotify so you can name drop them in your Spotify editorial pitch. The rest, you should try to find the curator using sites like Playlist Supply and submit to them. If you only want to find commonalities between these artists and make playlists you could put yourself on. Let's say a bunch of them come up in the Spotify genre, NPC music. Wait, this is Taylor. What, you don't know that one? Anyway, make a playlist of the artists and put three of your songs in the first 20 or so songs of the playlist. Add a description and title it something like Best NPC Music or Intro to NPC Music. New Fines NPC Music, This is NPC Music or New England NPC Music. You get the point. Add or swap out two to four songs every week or two and tag the artists on Instagram, Twitter, and Threads and TikTok that you add to it. Making posts about the playlist as you add them. This will get the algorithm of all the platforms to start to see you as connected to small and upcoming artists and get suggested to the fans into those artists. And when they listen to this playlist it will train Spotify to see you as similar to them for Discover Weekly Radio and other algorithmic playlists. Make sure to also follow all these artists on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Threads. And when you see the directors, photographers, playlisters, mixers, and mastering engineers they work with, follow them too. Make sure to comment, even video reply, duet and stitch and repost from your artist account regularly so the algorithm starts to connect you to them too. Become a hub of your genre and strike up conversations with them. Do remixes, features, and collaborations with them to strengthen your algorithmic bond as it teaches these platforms to suggest you to their fans and vice versa. When you make your own videos, experiment with all those genre names that we wrote down before as hashtags. As the more niche the hashtag, the more you will often grow. Concentrate on small hashtags with small followings, not big ones like hashtag musician. Whenever the musicians you're friendly with release new music or do something big, support them and hopefully they'll do the same for you. In time, you'll all grow together as a scene. And if you wanna know more about this technique, head to the longer video I made that has all the details that's linked to this one. And on the screen now.