How To Build A Fan Base As A Musician On Social Media.

There is no way you will become a successful artist if you don’t have a large fan base, because fans are to an artist what fuel is to a vehicle.

As we all know, a car cannot move without fuel, so also a music artist cannot become successful without fans because it is your fans who are going to download, listen, stream, and buy your music.

Above all else, your fans are the ones who are going to spread the word about you and your music career, and in so doing help you get more fans.

And for that reason, you need to focus more on getting fans while starting out your music career.

How to build a fan base as a musician on social media.

To build your fan base as a musician on social media, you have to create and post content consistently on your social media platforms and, while doing so, utilize diverse promotional methods to reach out to your potential audience.

Secondly, collaborating with top artists will also help you build a fan base as a musician on social media.

Create and post content consistently on social platforms.
Collaborating with top artists.

1. Create and post content consistently on social platforms.

If you want to build your fan base on social media then you have to be very consistent in posting.

That is to say, you must be able to post something on your social account every now and then.

But this does not mean you are going to post just about anything, you need the right contents that are going to keep people hooked as well as yearning for more.

You can read our article on the topic of How to use social media effectively as a musician if you want to know the right content and time to post.

We also have another article: Basic content ideas to help musicians build their fan base on social media, that will help you understand the 3 basic contents you should be creating as a music artiste.

2. Collaborating with top artists.

Though this technique is usually expensive; as you will have to pay the superstar you will be collaborating, if you can afford it then you will soon build a very large fan base on social media.

This is because the top artiste you are collaborating with already has a large fan base who will have the confidence of also listening to you because you equalize their favorite artiste.

And you wouldn’t have hit that spot if you did not collaborate with him or her.

Who are your fans as a musician?

It is so unfortunate that lots of upcoming artists mistake their social media followers for fans, but I am here to let you know that your social media followers are not your fans, rather they are just a collection of people with diverse interests who are very hard to reach.

Yes! The interest of those following your social media accounts varies extensively.

Especially those of you who like to grow your social accounts with “follow for follow”, without understanding the interest of those you are exchanging follows.

Secondly, even if you have people with the right interest following your social accounts, another problem you will have is being able to reach them at will.

This is because social media algorithms will be working against you, and based on the engagements you get, you will never be able to reach; even one-third of your followers whenever you want.

That is why you have 10k followers and cannot even get up to 50 likes on a single post you publish.

Therefore, you must start now to think of building a fanbase if you really want to become a successful music artist.