Just some quick updates! (well collated from our more updated Facebook Page that you might want to give a like and follow to interact with us as well as get up to date updates. It seems people are more into Facebook now than reading blogs? 😅)
We've finally hit 500 followers (well that took a bit more time don't you think?)
We were pleasantly surprised that we’ve gained 200 plus followers last July 20,2022 to propel us over the 500 followers mark. We are now being followed by 680 users on Spotify! Even more reason to write new songs and release them the soonest! We are officially on the road to 1,000 followers, and we are hoping to reach more listeners who we hope could find some positive stories from our songs!😊
Meanwhile, Thank You to our 2,192 Listeners this July! This means so much to us. So just hold on a bit, more songs coming in towards the end of the year. 😊
As for out albums, here's some numbers that finally broke the 100k streaming mark for these releases!
The first ever album that we wrote/composed/recorded was this album. Which was originally intended to be a fundraising project for our Church's Music Ministry. There was no intention to release it outside our Church's confines. But things just got bigger and bigger when Praise Music offered us a contract to distribute the album Nationwide in CD Format. That was May 1, 2006. If I remember it right, we sold 500 CD's on the first few months. And I lost track how many were sold all in all.
*Full Story can be found in our Band's Blog Page:
https://thoughtsandnotions2013.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-retelling-of-our-origin-story.html
On October 29, 2021, we finally released the whole album in Digital Music Format. With Spotify as the most common source for the Digital Music streams for this album. Just last weekend, the album finally breached 100,000 streams. It's not as big as a million. But for the people who lent us their ears in listening to the songs in this album, we are grateful for making our songs a part of your lives.
It was an amazing journey for three individuals, Thrina (Vocals), Wilbert (songwriter/sound engineer), and me. To get it to a point that we started in a little city in Cagayan de Oro some 17 years ago. And now to have it heard in a global scale albeit in Digital Music Format. I guess we are blessed to have been able to preserve the songs and our Faith Stories in this album. Thank God for all the guidance thru all those years! And of course to all of you!
Our story has just began in this new Digital Age. We hope you'll be here in the coming months and years to come! Still, we proclaim, to God be the Greater Glory!
Stream the whole album here in case you still haven't😅
https://open.spotify.com/album/5v5BHdLYKY8BfKGv6O71Xq?si=MdMs8IRBRE61WoZoWMUoFw
P.S.
We think an update for this album is really due. 😅
On the other hand, our sophomore album (released on Digital Music Platforms last March 2022) finally breached the 100,000 streams mark yesterday. Unlike our debut album, this album was something that we never thought would see the light of day. Originally released in 2009 independently, and produced using CD-Rs and DIY packaging, the album never had a formal nationwide release as the band took a hiatus after being nominated in the prestigious NU 107 Rock Awards. There was a formal contract offered to us for Nationwide Distribution by a label, but we never pursued it when we disbanded. So to release it Digitally and in a more global scale, this milestone is truly something that we treasure. Specially when we thought the story and the songs of Thoughts And Notions would die with it.
That said, we are very honored and thankful to the listeners of not just this album, but to all of our songs as well. We have always felt that this album marked an improvement to our overall sound. And getting it released this year for the people to listen to it is already a huge accomplishment. When we decided to return, we always had this sense of loss because we lost all of our fans and followers back then after more than 10 years away from the spotlight. But to gain more and in a global scale as we started to rebuild again, you all are truly a blessing to us.
And as we look forward to the road ahead, we would like to quote our main vocalist Thrina Dimaano Escaño's haunting singing/wailing of our song "Arise" which is track one of this album.
" I will NEVER give up..........."
Thank You from the deepest recesses of our collective hearts!
Stream our second album on this link if you still haven't🙂:
https://open.spotify.com/album/26LyTJ3c4GFpFwIfuARtw0?si=cHDF6jp6RkqXlMtdL6UmvQ
As always, we thank you for all your support. And we are hoping we are all in this together for the long haul…. on to the first million streams?😅
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