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Podcast: Making a Scene Presents
Episode: Stop Chasing Virality and Start Building a Sustainable Micro-Label Ecosystem Today
Description: Stop Chasing Virality and Start Building a Sustainable Micro-Label Ecosystem Today
There is a scene happening in bedrooms, garages, basements, back rooms, and half-finished home studios all over America right now. An artist finishes a song, posts a clip, refreshes the numbers, waits for the spike, gets a little bump, and then starts over again. The song is real. The work is real. The hope is real. But the business model is still a slot machine. In 2026, the biggest platforms openly frame discovery as something you can campaign for inside their system, with tools like Spotify Discovery...