Eric Strom’s Daily Song

Due to my killer ReverbNation stats (top 300 100 on the pop charts, baby!), I have been offered to take part in ReverbNation’s brand-new and very exclusive program called Sponsored Songs. Very few artists are invited into this program so it’s a great honor!

Sponsored Songs is a cutting-edge way of paying artists by advertising in the album artwork of an mp3. What this means for us is that you get to download songs for free, and I get paid for each download.

So, today’s song will be a sponsored song. The song will not be available to download until June 10th 24th - for now, check out the sample.

EDIT (added Wednesday, June 10th, 10:54am EST): The song will be sponsored by Microsoft Windows®. In addition to compensating artists for downloads, Windows will be promoting this program - to drive music fans to learn more about the music available to them - via marketing campaigns at MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter. In their own words, “…this pilot program with ReverbNation is an exciting new way to engage audiences, and we hope we can play a role in transforming music distribution online while ensuring fair compensation for artists.”

Daily Song has suddenly got very popular even though I haven’t been doing anything different.

So, I got contacted by my web hosting people. They tell me that I’ve been pushing a few gigabytes of mp3’s every day for months, but that recently they’ve seen a significant increase in traffic to my Daily Song website.

So I told them that I thought that was great news. They said that that’s one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that you need a dedicated server.

And then they told me the price of such a server. After laughing.. and crying, I decided that the easiest solution here is to scrap the Daily Song Blimp and have my mp3’s hosted for free somewhere else.

So, I contacted the owner of Reverbnation and got them to lift the 100-song limit so that I could carry out Daily Song there.

Sadly, we must say goodbye to the blimp. On the plus side, the Daily Song website will not be slow anymore! I guess it makes sense though, have you ever seen a real blimp? They go so slow. GOODBYE BLIMP, we will miss you!

P.S. Sadly, the number of plays achieved through the blimp (50,000+) are not counted in the number of plays displayed on the new reverbnation vinyl-version blimp widget. That’s OK though, just listen to some extra songs to make up for it!

I usually “tag” the lyrics of the Daily Songs in the MP3 file (so the lyrics show up in your iTunes or on your iPod). However, I just realized that I forgot to do this for Many Names (Day #223), so here they are:

walk in the front with people who have starved and thinned
sneakin out the back with those who’ve lied and sinned
i may say it in my own words
but mine is the same as your story
of one
sufferin’ under the same sun sun
we are undivided for the will of one inside said of one
sufferin’ under the same sun sun
of your remorse given to the source of one with its many names

takin’ with the users until they abstain
runnin’ with the hunted until they are slain
crawl with the disabled and the lame
it’s all the same
just many names of one
sufferin’ under the same sun sun
we are undivided for the will of one inside said of one
sufferin’ under the same sun sun
of your remorse given to the source of one with its many names