Music Video Bloggers

There are millions of videos that "react" to different music videos that get millions of views, especially if they're famous channels. This promotes the singer's song to lots of people who watch the person's reaction videos. This is definitely a main pro! Another pro is that the song is played along with the person reacting to it, so if the viewer liked the song, then therefore they can search it up on YouTube and listen to it for themselves, or even buy the song, making sure the sales for the song rises. A con of this process is that some people generally don't like watching "reaction" videos so they may not watch it. I think that this means for our music video it has to fit with the "trend" of music videos or be something original to make people want to watch it.


5 Top Strategies that a band in our genre has used to promote their music.

1. Interviews – Fans love to hear about the inspiration for songs, the meaning behind lyrics, the band chemistry, the drama, the highs. Get someone you know to interview you, or interview yourself. This is a good strategy because fans like to know interesting things about their favourite band/singer and these interviews are a good way to find these facts about them and their music.


2. Mini-documentary – Document the story of your band. Not much of a story to tell yet? Then make it a very short mini-documentary. This is interesting for those people who weren't able to go watch them live when their favourite band/singer was in a city near them. This way they can see what they performed live and what they did before and while they were in their city.


3. Behind the scenes – We all love to get a glimpse inside the creative process. Keep your fans invested by showing them behind-the-scenes snippets of you writing, recording, putting up posters, fixing your gear, eating at your favourite taco cart, or practicing. These can be very short and very informal. Frequency can be more important than slickness with this approach. This can be very helpful to those interested in what equipment they use and how they film their favourite artist.


4. Encourage fans to record covers of your songs – Why not? It worked for Steve Winwood! Maybe the next Justin Bieber will perform your song in his living room for millions of tweens.


5. The standard music video – Ya know, like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” This would be anything staged, with props, costumes, scripts, extras, and synced to the studio recording of the track.



If we were going to promote our music video, I think making a documentary, having interviews and get people to cover the song are all great ideas. I think this way more people will find out about it as there would be more videos covering the song. As our genre is pop, it will be more successful because most people like pop music as it is more popular and so they will find out about it easily.

RADIO 1 CHARTS
1. Say You Won't Go - James Arthur
2. Starboy - The Weeknd ft Daft Punk (RnB/Soul)
3. Closer - The Chainsmokers ft Halsey (Electronic Dance)
4. My Way - Calvin Harris (Dance)
5. Side To Side - Ariana Grande

I have researched each 5 of these songs to see what genre they are and the two highlighted in yellow are the pop songs. The others are listed beside the songs. The most popular genres are pop and dance genres. This means that our genre of music would still be popular but dance music is still also popular.


These has a connection with our chosen song because sometimes they look at smaller songs that could be upcoming and famous in the future, so therefore they could promote the song and the products.