It's "Like Winter"
End of Year Greetings and warm welcome to all!
Here is a song appropriate for the arctic blast here in the U.S. called "Like Winter" and it DOES feel like winter!
2017 was a great year for Barley Station and our fans. We released a single in early 2017 called "Just Begun". Then in September we released 'Back There Somewhere', a new full length album with 11 songs. Then we released a French language version of track 3 (Warm Embraces). And then we capped the year off with an original Christmas song which made its premier on Limehead Radio out of the UK.
If you haven't heard the Christmas song yet, you can find it anywhere our music is distributed digitally such as CD Baby, iTunes, Spotify, Tidal, etc.) It has been entered into the U.S.A. Songwriting Contest (Christmas Contest) and we should know how it did in the competition by mid February.
Meanwhile, in 2017, we hit the European Indie Charts at a run and made it to #1 for 7 weeks so far (still going) and obviously have had a lot of radio airplay in Europe. The same song won a spot on Jango Radio's Summer Playlist as well!
And thanks to all of you on N1M we went over half a million plays on N1M.
In 2017 we sent out two songs via a compilation CD via Bongo Boy Records to Asia, a single from the last album out to Asia and Mainland China through Music Dish China, followed by the new album 'Back There Somewhere' which is already hitting the Kanjian charts for starters.
We set up a new merchandise shop with cool products with better prices at:
https://barleystation.threadless.com/
In the midst of all of this, we did our weekly livestream over on Facebook which became very popular as we played some acoustic versions of songs, shared news, had a hilarious time, and had a blast with that. In Spotify Land, our monthly listenership increased in 2017 by a HUGE 600%. We also landed on some very popular and large Spotify Playlists like the iTunes Top 100 US.
So we worked hard and had some fun at the same time and were keeping you all in mind for these great adventures. We appreciated the many messages and emails you sent and words of encouragement and messages of how our music was meaningful to you all in so many ways.
We are thrilled and honored to have had such a connection with all of you in some way or another this past year!
And as 2018 is set to begin,we have started on our fourth full length album, have a number of collaborations of some cover songs in the works, and a remix of one of our songs coming that will explore new territory. We have some music magazine features coming up this year as well, so look for news on those soon too.
We appreciate all your support in whatever way it has been given. Every bit counts.
Thank YOU and here's to a wonderful 2018!
Cheers!
Team Barley Station
