Hey — Mike here.
Let me tell you why this thing exists, because it's kind of a weird story.
I started out as a music artist. Not the "I made a SoundCloud once" kind — the real kind. I was opening shows for Lil Baby, A Boogie, Juicy J, and honestly a ton more. Big stages, loud crowds, tour life. The dream.
Here's what nobody tells you about the dream: making the music is the easy part. Getting heard is the war.
So I got obsessed with the war. Spotify, playlists, the algorithm — I went full nerd on all of it. (I've always been a tech guy. I just hid it pretty well behind the artist thing.) Other artists started hitting me up like "bro, how are you getting these streams?" and before I knew it, I wasn't just an artist anymore. I was in the business.
That's how the original PlaylistGOATS was born — me figuring out the playlist game in real time and showing other artists what actually worked.
But then the game got dirty. Fake playlists everywhere. Bots. Playlists with 100,000 "followers" and 12 monthly listeners. I watched good artists light real money on fire pitching playlists that were deader than my first MySpace page.
I got sick of watching it. So I did what any tech-obsessed ex-artist would do: I rebuilt the whole thing from scratch.
The new PlaylistGOATS does one thing: it shows you which playlists are sketchy before you waste your time and money pitching them. No fluff. No "we guarantee editorial." Just the signals, laid out plain, so you can make your own call.
The goal was never more playlists. It's better playlists. Real curators. Real listeners. Actual discovery. Less of your money going up in smoke.
And here's my promise: use it for seven days. If you don't find curators in your niche worth pitching, email me — mike@playlistgoats.com, that's really me — and I'll refund every cent.
— Mike
