After FIRST WEEK of listening from everyone, I've gathered the popularity stats of all the songs across YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal for my The Future is Forever album!

Here are the RESULTS (not counting Singles release data)

• The Most Popular Songs 👑

1. Feel What's Real
2. A New Light
3. Call You Tomorrow (Intro)
4. Come On Over
5. You Get Old
6. To Your Neighbor

Most popular at the top then descends ⬆️

• The Least Popular Songs 💀

1. In My Dreams (Outro)
2. I'm A Dog
3. The Evenings 7PM (Interlude)

Least popular at the top then increases ⬆️

• In the Middle Songs 🫡

1. Wash My Hands
2. No More Traffic
3. Identity Theft Me
4. The Nights 2AM (Interlude)
5. You Used To

Most popular at the top then descends ⬆️

• Whole song order of most popular to least popular together:

1. Feel What's Real 👑
2. A New Light
3. Call You Tomorrow (Intro)
4. Come On Over
5. You Get Old
6. To Your Neighbor
7. Wash My Hands
8. No More Traffic
9. Identity Theft Me
10. The Nights 2AM (Interlude)
11. You Used To
12. The Evenings 7PM (Interlude)
13. I'm A Dog
14. In My Dreams (Outro) 💀

I grouped by average plays which made the 3 groups - but luckily so far I don't have any real dramatic dropoff!

The Evenings 7PM (Interlude), I'm A Dog and In My Dreams (Outro), the more "EDMish" songs of the album, are the overall LOSERS lmao 😭 That's OKAY, they're made in mind moreso for live play and festivals.

Feel What's Real, A New Light, and Call You Tomorrow (Intro) are the overall WINNERS, funny enough this is ALSO my personal top 3 of the album 🗣️ - I can see people like my more "moody" ish lmao 😂 while my more "happy" ish are in the middle (niggas only kinda wanna be happy LMAO).

• Top 5 most playlisted songs across all platforms (not counting Singles releases):

1. Feel What's Real
2. Come On Over
3. Wash My Hands
4. A New Light
5. You Get Old

HMs: You Used To & To Your Neighbor

Very dope to see and I have pretty good above average album play through rate too! Which I'm really glad cuz I worked really hard on the sequencing of the album and making songs flow into each other while still having a "story" follow thru

Thank you to everyone that has listened in the premier week and I really do appreciate the attention. I can't express how much. And I'm glad most people have been enjoying it. Across all music & social platforms (including KTT 2) and irl I've only had 3 people out of many say something truly negative!

• MORE TO COME, IM GETTING CONNECTED TO PEOPLE AND A VIDEOGRAPHER (SO I CAN DO REAL MUSIC VIDEOS FOR THE NEXT THING!) AND SOME LIVE SETS - AND IM IN THE VERY EARLY STAGES OF BRAIN STORMING THE NEXT FULL PROJECT THAT WILL ALSO HAVE FEATURES FROM OTHER ARTISTS - THERE MIGHT ALSO BE AN ARTSY INSTRUMENTAL EP RELEASED EARLY NEXT YEAR TOO IN THE GAP IF I HAVE TIME BUT NO PROMISES, AND I DONT PLAN FOR THE NEXT FULL PROJECT TO TAKE A LONG TIME (n maybe some loosies of full songs and/or instrumental music songs at some points) 🥹🙌

I know I just quoted the links, but the rules are the rules - NEW PAGE MEANS FULL LINKS REPOST

• The Future is Forever (ALBUM) 💽

OUT NOW 💧

SPOTIFY:
open.spotify.com/album/7eH1J0Yn2HaiyoPNCYP1DO

APPLE MUSIC:
music.apple.com/us/album/the-future-is-forever/1846665880

BANDCAMP Regular Album Version (WAV DOWNLOADS, Free/Pay What You Want):
denzelwaters.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-is-forever

BANDCAMP Instrumental Album Version (WAV DOWNLOAD, Free/Pay What You Want):
denzelwaters.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-is-forever-instrumental-version

TIDAL:
tidal.com/album/467427915

• YOUTUBE:

🕊️ IN ORDER ALBUM TRACKS PLAYLIST: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXlO5QCX__bTF8HwLQC58F-kCXRJr250J

MAIN GENRES: ELECTRONIC, DANCE, RNB 🕊️

• Also! For all those that didn't ask - These are the 23 artists and their albums that inspired the creation of TFIF that I kept in mind and listened to constantly during the process of this album from 2023 to a few months ago that led to the release (the order doesn't mean anything):

Janet Jackson - Control
Prince - Purple Rain
Rick James - Glow
Kaytranada - Bubba
Zhu - Dreamland 2021
Blood Orange - Negro Swan
Daft Punk - Homework
FKA Twigs - LP1
James Blake - Self Titled
Beach House - Bloom
Kendrick Lamar - Black Panther Soundtrack
Jai Paul - og leak of his "Bait Ones" album
Snoop Dogg and Pharrell - BUSH
Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Todd Terry - Ready for a New Day
Solange - True EP
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
Sly Stone - Dance to the Music
Missy Elliot - So Addictive
XXYYXX - Self Titled
Dabeull - Intimate Funk
James Brown - Hell
Nicolas Jaar - Sirens

If you HAVENT heard any of these albums, I recommend that YOU DO when you get the chance! I love them all

Making some promo lil animated vids for social media and shorts 😊

This one on the vibe of little big planet, super Mario Galaxy or like crash bandicoot stage screen type s*** type s***

It became more Animal Crossing coded, walking in place of a spinning mini planet with moving clouds and aurora kind of lights in the background

Will be out more than likely tomorrow on YT, Insta and TikTok

Just gotta color grade it, maybe a filter or two n then find the right song for the promo preview

The 1st full render promo with song is now up on YT Shorts - Song: Call You Tomorrow (Intro), 1st song on my TFIF album

A bit shorter version with maybe a different section of the song on the animation will be up on TikTok and IGreels later today or tomorrow

More BTS info: Custom model work and editing existing models took about two days, rigging and animation + scene set up took about half a day and then editing (color grading, scene cutting and effects) took about a day

Programs used: Blender, Accurig, Magix Video Pro and CapCut

🫡

What about it

YT algo is starting to push me a bit

Gained two or three subscribers already off this short and starting to climb regularly into the 100s views off of a nothing account n got some Spotify streams, hopefully I can push thru the TikTok algo tho - once you get one semi big one there then u on!

Gotta be more consistent tho from me, for other artists on this site that's the real ticket is to have consistent uploads to keep increasing the threshold for more TL eyes - from what I been told and looked into

You are literally put into tiers of priority and you increase with more consistency mainly and some interaction that will then expand as time goes

This is talm bout going just off of algo riffs, of course you can always have sumn go viral or just gets semi popular elsewhere that boomerangs back and then puts you further in "the line"

The 3d visuals with music in the background and the studio live playing is what social media n YT seems to like the most, at least from me so far anyways

Inspirations are

Gotta show love to the ones that gave you game

Oh quill @Aquilla , marks thread just reminded that I been meaning to ask u

Have you heard the newer version of the official released version of You Get Old with its different beat and mix?

I know u liked the og as one of ur favs that was on the early preview version of the album I sent you months ago. I meant to ask during release week how do you like the final compared to the early version since the beat n mix is different.

The old one was more industrial-like and the final is more dark techno-like, which Marks dark techno release reminded me to ask.

new promo animation up tomorrow, here's a raw render-still without any filters or lighting edits - been working on the final edit for the last hour

Viper in the night streets - programs the same (most of my animations use these same set of programs)

• Update, final edit done

Render still with all the light editing, visual editing (sharpening, vignette, depth etc.), texture work, filters & color grading + slight angle change:

Went with an Initial D type of inspired shading and lighting

The plan is to make a unique promo animation for every single song on the album (minus the 2 interludes) and then they can be cycled and recycled on social media.

Rest of the year will be dedicated to mainly to this promo creation while rough drafting the next main project - then next year will be the full creation focus on the next music album.

This is the 2nd out of 12 promo animated visuals made so far, 10 more to go. I will prob do more screen records and some in studio sessions videos too, just whenever it feels right.

2nd animation promo vid now up - for the song You Get Old, track 4 on my TFIF album

Doing the next promo animation, using assets and templates from Identity Theft Me's animated music video files - but I think this going to be used for Feel What's Real song, or might just be Identity Theft Me song again but it's social media promo version

I think this one will have about 3 different shots instead of the straight on one shot of the other 2 promos, it will be easier to do too since I can repurpose the music video version temps and assets

3rd animated promo vid out now - Song: Feel What's Real, track 2 off of my TFIF album

💡 Next in process:

Re-working a scrapped animated music video idea for the next social promo animation clips

It was originally scrapped because I didn't think it was interesting or as compelling for the length of a full song, but it can work way better for short form vids while still saving a leftover project

Some render stills of the og full aspect ratio project file

The inspo for this upcoming animation is based off of the presentation viewing of cars in Gran Turismo 4 & 7 for ps2 and ps4 in your garage and scenic landscape mode - while the coloring and light filtering is based off old car magazine ads from the 90s and 2000s

4th animated promo vid out now - Song: No More Traffic, track 6 off my TFIF album

Another live vid of an in progress track, from last night's session