The reasons for creating a fan account are two-fold. One:
Fans earn a cut of Artist’s earnings.
And Two: It is to meaningfully support under-ground eclectic music artists.

To earn a cut of Artist earnings, you need to sign up artists using your unique Promo link. The instant they click your link and sign up, then you get paid ten percent of all their earnings, forever. Forever as in perpetuity.

To get paid a full ten percent, you simply have to clear twelve gaming levels, but then, this is a really fun game.

Later in this video, you will also learn how to scale your earnings across a multitude of artists.

So where does the money come from? 

Your earnings stem from The Game that artists play – mystery music songs that beat the game will gain heavy rotation – meaning a large audience. Because these mystery songs are brilliant, listeners are compelled to either buy the song, before the ninety second song clip ends, or else lose the song forever. Our goal is to convert ten to twenty percent of these listens into song sales.

You can think of anonymous, mystery songs as a new music format that creates a fertile ground for song sales.

In this scenario, a million listens for a winning song leads to one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand sales, with the artist getting paid one dollar per sale – and the fan that signed up the artist getting paid, ten thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars, in dividend payments. As the game grows, the audience grows and both sales and dividends increase with time.

To be clear, only about one in every thousand songs will beat the game. This puts the onus on fans, who need to sign up great music artists capable of beating the game. You are the music label, that signs up promising bands and artists. Maybe your artists won’t win with their first song, but, with effort, perhaps they will win after entering 20 songs. You want to sign up promising and hard working artists that never give up.

OK, we went pretty deep. So let’s step back and actually Create a fan account. To start, simply click Create Account, and enter an email and a 6 digit password.

This takes you to the Levels page. Here, it tells you that you have to clear all twelve Levels. Now, you need to clear the Levels just once – in order to earn ten cents – which is ten percent – of every artist song sale – for Artists that you sign up. Yes, you must sign up Artists via your Promo Link to get a cut of their sales. 

At sign up, you only earn a two cent cut of their song sales – and it will not increase to 10 cents until you clear all twelve Levels.

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To clear the Twelve Levels, you simply have to play and score a number of songs at each Level and then you climb level after level. Here it displays your Level and your earnings per song sale.

If you rate the song pretty low, say 60 out of 100, you do not get the option to buy it. Here, I will score this 80 out of 100. Because I rated it so high, I get the option to buy the mystery song. Here, I choose not to buy and I simply submit the score. And now I continue to rate other mystery songs.

The Levels tab shows you the lay of the land – it shows you how many scoring plays you still need to give, at the current level.

After you climb all 12 Levels, the Level Number now reads – Max, and now, finally, your cut of all artists sales reaches ten cents, and it stays there permanently.

Now that you are at Max, and there are no more Levels to climb – You can concentrate on earning repeat dividends.

Dividends are only possible because mystery music songs have real value. A ten cent cut of Artist song sales is only meaningful when those winning artists actually sell songs.

To get paid dividends, artists and fans must sign up using your Promo link. Once they click your Promo link and signup, you own them forever.

Dividends are paid in perpetuity. You can never lose your dividends. Here, on a mobile device, we log on and, from the Levels Screen you can access your QR Promo link. Have people scan it to quickly sign up, or you can copy it, print it out or share it.

On your laptop, you can click on Your Promo link and you can copy and share any of these marketing images which have your Promo link embedded. You can also view your QR Promo link and share that – or simply share your Promo link directly – whatever the means, they all get users to this screen whereby they can choose to sign up as an artist or fan.

We typically think of music fans being linked to music acts. So, yes, it’s kind of odd that fans can sign up other fans when they don’t have a song in the game, but that is just how promo links work. Anybody can sign up artists or fans.

To view your Dividend payments, you go to the Dividends screen. Direct Dividends are artists you signed up directly – you get a ten cent cut of all their song sales, forever.

If you sign up 100 artists, there is a very good chance that one of these artists will, sooner or later, beat the game and, as the game grows, your dividend earnings continually rise.

This screen shows your fan signups – you get a two cent cut of all song sales by artists your fans signup. These are called Indirect Dividends, because you did not sign up the artists directly, your fans signed them up.

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And this screen shows fans that your fans signed up. These are your Grand fans who also earn you Indirect Dividends. .Again, you also get a two cent cut of all song sales by artists, that your Grand fans sign up.

These multi-generation dividends lead to a multiplier effect. Basically, you spread the net much wider with fans so your odds of dividends from winning artists is much higher.

We now explain why signing up one thousand fans is a realistic pathway to earning large indirect dividend payments.

We begin whereby you signup one thousand fans

These one thousand fans could viably signup ten fans each on average – meaning you have ten thousand Grand fans.

These ten thousand Grand fans could realistically signup five new artists each on average, meaning you will earn dividends from fifty thousand artists.

Again, realistically, only one in one thousand artists will beat the Game – so we have about fifty winning artists.

If winning artists get paid one hundred thousand dollars each and you get a two thousand dollar cut from each artist, that leads to one hundred thousand dollars in dividend payments in year one. These payments should rise as the game grows.. It is basically wealth by thousands of cuts. And that is why you should aim to sign up one thousand fans.

To Sign up one thousand fans, you just need to share your Promo Link by every means possible. Have friends scan your Promo Link QR code on your phone and walk them through the sign up process. Share your Promo Link via email and share via Social Media. Share it as a link, as an image which has the link embedded. Share it as a QR code.. Good luck.

One last thing – if an artist signed you up as their fan, then every song you score, this artist gets credit for it. This allows their songs to rapidly climb the Gaming Levels on auto-pilot. This is a great way to meaningfully support an artist.

However, if you buy a song and you want to support this artist instead, you can click – Join Artist. Now this artist will get credit for your scoring plays instead. You can only support one artist at any one point in time.

We hope this is a helpful guide. Bye for now.

HOW TO PLAY THE GAME

For Artists – Step One is to create an account. Click Create account. Next, we will choose to create an Artist account. And next – you just need a valid email, a six-digit password and an artist name. It’s pretty simple.

To play the Game, you will need to upload a song. There are no jawnrez, but – if you think your song is Easy Listening, click on this checkbox. If it’s loud or Hardcore, click this checkbox. Fans of these styles are more likely to hear your song – and potentially rate your song higher. Mid-tempo, you click nothing at all. Enter the song title and choose a song and finally, click upload.

Once your song is uploaded, you can view it on the Songs Uploaded table.
You can make a song briefly exclusive which means the song is not on any other platform which means fans cannot ID the song. If they really love a song, they need to buy it. Briefly exclusive means it is only exclusive for the day, or so, that it takes to climb 12 gaming levels. Most importantly, exclusive songs have about one hundred X better odds, of beating the game.

The Game is not easy –
Songs need an average score of eighty-five out of one hundred or higher to beat the game, and only about one in one thousand songs will actually beat the game – the rest will be Game Over and all Game Over songs are instantly and permanently rendered not-exclusive and also inactive.

The only songs that you can activate or dee activate are in the play queue. You can also move them up in the play queue. All other songs are either frozen active or frozen non-active.

You can also skip into a song up to 30 seconds – so that reviewers hear the choice portion of the song. The skip-intro is for fans that score your song. If you play a song from this table, it plays from the start – it does not skip the intro.

Once your song is uploaded, click the button – Play The Game. This takes you to the Rate Songs screen.
Now click, Play, to Play the Game. – Here, you will score random mystery songs by other artists – based on how much you like the song. And they will impartially score your song in return.

You have to listen to the first twenty seconds before you can score a song. Just be honest in scoring – giving low scores to other artist’s songs does not help your song achieve a winning average score. In fact, it could result in your winning song being eliminated.

Separately, in this box it reports the Level your song is at, along with its average score. Don’t confuse the scores you give, when you play songs, with the average score you get, here. This is what you get, the play button is where you give.

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If you rate the song pretty low, say 60 out of 100, you do not get the option to buy it. Here, I will score this 80 out of 100. Because I rated it so high, I get the option to buy the mystery song. Here, I choose not to buy and I simply submit the score. And now I continue to rate other mystery songs.

The Game screen is your situation room. It gives you the lay of the land. It counts the scores you Give and the scores you Get. It also tells you how many scores you song still needs to get. And, how many songs that you still need to give scores to. And that’s it – do what The Game requires and you will climb 12 levels.

At Gaming Level 9, you may need to upload a new song which is akin to putting another quarter in the machine. At Gaming Level 11, you may need to signup 2 new artists using your Promo link. After you play the Game four times with four different songs, you no longer need to signup new artists to clear Level 11.

Also, when you signup Fans, and then they score songs, you get credit for their plays. This means your songs auto climb the Gaming Levels. You simply need to enter songs into the game.

Finally at Level 12, you just need to give all the scores required – then your next song moves into the Game at Level 1, where it begins to climb.

Meanwhile, your previous song has entered the Sifter Stages. The 12 Sifter Stages separate out winning songs. You have no tasks to complete at the Sifter Stages – your song will only get scores. The screen is informational – it tells you whether you beat the Game or not. The higher your song’s average score, the more stages it climbs and the more scores it receives.

Again, most songs will not beat the game and they will be Game Over. They will be displayed on the Sifting Stages table that shows the final average score. They will simultaneously appear on a Game Over table. After one week, these Game Over songs will disappear from the sifting stages and will only be displayed on the Game Over screen.

When your song beats the Game, it goes into Mass Exposure where it gets played in heavy rotation over a period of months or even years. The goal is to convert ten percent to twenty percent of plays into song sales – we anticipate that only exclusive songs will achieve this.

When you sell songs, these appear on your Songs Sold table. And, when you buy songs, these appear on your Purchased Songs table.

On the Your Account screen, in order to get paid, make sure you enter your PayPal email,

When it comes to your Promo Link and Dividend payments, we already covered that in our video titled – Why sign up ten thousand fans.

And that completes our tour. Bottom line – songs that beat the game will gain a large audience. Now, – Play The Game!

This video explains why signing up ten thousand fans is a realistic pathway to earning large dividend payments.

It’s a viable path to repeat dividend payments from half a million artists. It is just not feasible to sign up a half a million artists on your own. You need to leverage fans.

Dividends are only possible because mystery music gems that are also briefly exclusive have value. A ten cent cut of Artist song sales is only meaningful when those winning artists actually sell songs.

To get paid dividends, artists and fans must sign up using your Promo link. Once they click your Promo link and signup, you own them forever.

Dividends are paid in perpetuity. You can never lose your dividends. Here, on a mobile device, we log on and, from the Game Screen you can access your QR Promo link. Have people scan it to quickly sign up, or you can copy it, print it out or share it.

On your laptop, you can click on Your Promo link and you can copy and share any of these marketing images which have your Promo link embedded. You can also view your QR Promo link and share that – or simply share your Promo link directly – whatever the means, they all get users to this screen whereby they can choose to sign up as an artist or fan.

To view your Dividend payments, you go to the Dividends screen. Direct Dividends are artists you signed up directly – you get a ten cent cut of all their song sales – forever.

This screen shows your fan signups – you get a two cent cut of all song sales by artists your fans signup. Again, forever.

And this screen shows fans that your fans signed up. These are your Grand fans. You also get a two cent cut of all song sales by artists – that your Grand fans sign up.

These multi-generation dividends lead to a multiplier effect.

We begin whereby you signup ten thousand fans

These ten thousand fans could viably signup ten fans each on average – meaning you have one hundred thousand Grand fans.

These one hundred thousand Grand fans could realistically signup five new artists each – meaning you will earn dividends from half a million artists.

Again, realistically, only one in one thousand artists will beat the Game – so we have about five hundred winning artists.

If winning artists get paid one hundred thousand dollars each and you get a two thousand dollar cut from each artist, that leads to one million dollars in dividend payments. It is basically wealth by a million cuts. And that is why you signup ten thousand fans.

Next – how can you signup ten thousand fans?

Well, you can share your Promolink everywhere – a sort of spray and pray strategy. But a more targeted approach is to get fans to engage in a mass search for your song.

Step 1: Email us a brand new, exclusive song to this email address. You can title the email – Hidden Song.

Step 2: We now upload your song to a hidden area of our database – you will see it on your Song Upload table along with all your other songs. Keep in mind, this hidden song is not actually playing The Game.

Step 3: You create a campaign on Social Media and on your website – inviting fans to find your secret song.

An invite button with your Promo link is absolutely central to any campaign. It must sit in the middle of all language and strategy.

Step 4: The strategy must heavily reward the winner. Note that the winning fan must buy the song to identify the song. Here are some potential rewards to offer the winner.  Rewards such as Collector’s Items, Cash Prizes, an autographed one of a kind vinyl record of the song, or free tickets. Perhaps allow the winner to tour with the band, or give them backstage passes. Maybe offer them original artwork and NFTs, or have them interview the artist, or appear with the artist. Maybe they can appear in your music video. There are lots of rewards that will excite fans.

Step 5: It is very important to prove to your fans that the winner is for real. Take screenshots of the Uploaded Songs table and also the Songs Sold table – this table shows the fan that purchased the hidden song. These are your receipts that show proof of the winner.

If you have questions on how to create a campaign, send us an email to promote at i song u dot com