Music Views

• Aug 11, 2017 - 06:27

Okay, I just wanted to talk about how few views some amazing pieces get. Take Undertale - OST (Long term project - Update 11 sans) by Asriel_Dreemurr_ (Link to the score at https://musescore.com/user/8658861/scores/2407156). That piece is amazing. I've never even played Undertale, and it sounds awesome. That piece has 2,043 views as of now. I don't know the amount of musescorers there are, but I saw 3,000,000, so I'm going with that. Lets say only 1/3 are active, so we get 1,000,000. Then lets say only 1/10 want Undertale music, so we end up with 100,000. Then imagine that 1/10 never see that piece, so the final number is 10,000. If the margin of error is 3/10, then that means that the piece should have about~ 7,000 views. It has 2,043 views. It was uploaded July 18th, 2016. That gives about 390 days since it was uploaded. The average amount of views per day is about 5.238 per day. That's not it, this isn't just a special case, look up any keyword and, with a few exceptions, past at least the 2nd page, most of the songs have very few views. Another example is Music Box from Yoshi's Island by noah.shandor (the score is https://musescore.com/user/1222026/scores/1047721). 2,012 views. 3,000,000/3=1,000,000 active users. 1,000,000/10=100,000 searchers. 100,000/10= 10,000 people who find the piece. A date of July 13th, 2015 gives 2.644 views per day, on average. Even less. How sad. Few pieces get lots of love, while lots get few love. It's sad. It's a snowball effect. The rich get richest-er. It's so sad I can't even grammar.

Well, sorry I wasted your time with this little rant. Plus, after this, the two pieces I mentioned might explode with views because I mentioned them.


Comments

MuseScore.org - this support site - has existed much longer than musescore.com - the sheet music sharing site. Historically, it could be that (the millions of) musescorers out there are more apt to gravitate to this site for help in creating their own scores (rather than viewing/downloading someone else's at the .com site).

Also, here at these forums, there exists a 'Made with MuseScore' category to which musescorers can post their musical creations.

Regards.

P.S. I hope those pieces do explode with views...

Do you still have an unanswered question? Please log in first to post your question.