1457

The last blog I wrote was kind of tongue in cheek on the whole band rating thing at ReverbNation.  So at that time we were ranked 1393 out of all the rock bands on their site.  I noticed that ranking the last time I checked into what was happening there for Q.R. Station.  Tonight I checked again, and we are now rated 1457.  Yeah, I know, we went down.  Sad news, right?  Well, not really.  Because this time I took a closer look to see how many rock bands are on their site.  Um, that would currently be 22,946.  I don’t want to say anything, but for a band that doesn’t have much time for this stuff given our day jobs and everything, that’s not bad.  As SwingDoom put it the other day, we haven’t even really released a song yet.  I mean, we’ve put up samples, but we really haven’t officially released any songs.

So how does the ranking work?  I haven’t looked in detail, but it’s things like the number of times our songs have been played, the number of visitors to our site on ReverbNation, and the number of people that have registered to be our fan.  So you can help us if you want to by playing our songs occasionally or by registering to be our fan, which you can do either on ReverbNation or at our web site, qrstation.com.  Our site isn’t very pretty, as we haven’t invested much time and effort into it.  One day we’ll get that right.

Anyway, we’re 1457 now, which when you look at the situation isn’t too bad.

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1393

1393. That’s our number, the Q.R. Station number. At least, that’s our number right now. I’m not saying we’re proud of the number, it is what it is. It’s our number right now. I’m not happy about it, I’m not sad about it. It’s just our number.

What is 1393, you ask? That’s Q.R. Station’s ranking among rock bands at ReverbNation. So of all the rock bands registered on their site, we rank 1393 in popularity. ReverbNation is a great site, and they’ve been great for our band. We kind of stumbled upon them, really. We were building the Q.R. Station web site last year when we needed an easy way to stream our audio and when we looked up possible ways on Google we saw a link to their site. They’ve offered way more than just streaming audio. They give us promotional tools, play statistics, a fan base – 21 fans right now. Yeah, that’s right, I said 21. I guess that’s our other number – 21. I guess my preference would be to reverse the meaning of those numbers. Can’t we have 1393 fans and be ranked 21 in rock rather than having 21 fans and being ranked 1393 in rock? I’m going to have to talk to them about that.

Anyway, 1393, that’s our number. We’re not proud of it, we’re not upset with it – it is what it is. It is our number. That is, it’s our number right now.

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