I Thought Growing an Audience Would Be the Hard Part

I started rebuilding my music career from scratch six months ago. Since then I’ve released new music, started growing an audience online, rebuilt the business side of being an independent artist, and started working toward one goal: playing my first real ZXOE headline show. In this video, I’m looking at what actually happened after six months — audience growth, live demand, how much of my set is ready, my current performance experience, and the infrastructure I’ve built behind the project. Some things are moving faster than I expected. Others are… very much not. 😭 This is the first checkpoint in my Road to My First Headline Show series, where I’m documenting what it actually takes to rebuild an independent music career without a label or built-in industry machine. If you’re an independent musician, artist, songwriter, producer, or just interested in what happens behind the scenes while someone tries to build a music career from the ground up, welcome. Current mission: turn the people finding my music online into an actual audience that would leave the house to see ZXOE live. 🎧 LISTEN TO ZXOE Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1OpYd... Apple Music:   / zxoe   ⚡ ENTER THE ZXOE WORLD Website: https://zxoe.world 📡 FOLLOW ZXOE TikTok:   / the_zxoe   Instagram:   / the_zxoe   💌 JOIN THE TRANSMISSIONS Email List: https://zxoe.world/the-garage