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The history of app stores is pretty clear on this — the primary ways to get non-negligible exposure is to get promoted/featured (literally “picked as a winner”), or somehow trigger a viral word of mouth event. One can pay to advertise an app, but that isn’t likely to support long-term product development (expense vs revenue).

Nonetheless, there are success stories so if you believe in what you’re building keep at it and keep talking to folks about it.

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That's part of what I worry about, because I talk with musicians, and the impression they give me is that they are basically making music to try to get "picked as the winner."

IE: We look at what's doing well on the Spotify/iTunes/YouTube/ect... lists and then make our next single look our sound toward what will make it on a high ref list, or we pay someone to do something for us that will get us on a high ref list. Apparently, the first one from their perspective was "kind" of working, and the second worked much better.