What is your definition of Success?

It is a race to the finish, are you in the 50 meter, 100 meter dash? Or are you in the 10 mile, 20 mile long triathlon with the race changing every few miles? It all depends on where you have your mind set as what’s a success. Do you finish an album, share with a few people and have a lot of congratulations? Make $20 on iTunes or CD baby and hope the music changed at least one persons life? Or maybe you want to live like a rock star and possible go like a rock star too? Everybody has their version of success, and each has their own road.

If you go onto CD baby, the average album sale is $340. Now that number is off a lot depending on how much you are willing to put work into it. If you only wanted to make an album that the world has a chance to hear, than your job is done. You made $20, and can now eat chipotle for a few days. If you decided to promote it yourself (depending on your talent), you can sell near the quota average of $340. Now if you put the album out, do some shows and get a fan base. This is where the numbers push the average, you sell over $5000 (CD baby had around 50 people sell over $10,000), and you become a mini rock star and you can not only eat chipotle for all 7 days of the week, but you can pay rent for a few months.

Success in definition by webster is “favorable or desired outcome.” So it all depends on what you want to do. Music is not a career for everybody, so getting recognition is not always top priority. If it is your career than recognition is of the up most importance, because how else would you be able to survive? Even if you want to work in the background of things, recognition is important to be able to show that you are willing to help people out.

So putting into consideration your definition of success, how much work are you willing to put into it?
From the mind of

Keveeno Reeverts