David Garfield - How To Double Your Streams, Being Independent & Getting On Big Playlists

English - November 25, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 119 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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The keyboardist, songwriter, producer, and record label owner, David Garfield is on the show today.

He has recorded with artists such as Smokey Robinson, Cher, Steve Lukather, George Benson, Eros Ramazzotti, and many others.

He also runs his own record label, Creatchy Records which we further delved into in the interview.

It was a real pleasure talking to David and I hope you will enjoy our wide-raging conversation too, so without further ado, here’s David Garfield.

In this interview, we spoke about:

• David starting his career in the ’70s

• How he got his foot in the door of the music industry

• His label, Creatchy Records

• Having Zoom shows

• How David got on big playlists on Spotify

• Why the argument that Spotify should pay artists more doesn’t hold up

• Being independent vs signed to a label

• Getting pennies on the dollar

• How David doubled his streams from 1 million to 2 million

• The key is to keep making music

• Knowing when to stop fiddling with your music

• The key to getting hired as a session musician

And much more

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