March 2011
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Free App Release: SXSW Artists
I’m delighted to announce the release of SXSW Artists, your guide to the 2000+ artists performing at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Powered by the engine behind My Artists, SXSW Artists integrates with your music library and a wealth of online resources to help you discover the music you should not miss at the festival.
Download SXSW Artists for free from the App Store.
App Store Essentials: Music Discovery
I’d noticed a sharp rise in U.S. sales and App Store ranking for My Artists since yesterday but couldn’t explain it until Daniel Ooi pointed out that the app is featured in Apple’s Music Discovery list.
It’s a fairly low key feature but it’s the first time the app has appeared on a curated list in the App Store, which (a) makes me feel good and (b) has taken the...
February 2011
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January 2011
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When will the App Store hit ten billion downloads?
So it’s no secret that the App Store is about to reach ten billion downloads.
But when?
Pádraig got in touch with me on Friday evening to let me know he’d found a way to process the data behind Apple’s app counter to determine when we might reasonably expect the milestone to be reached and see if I was interested in helping him put together a mini-site to publish the...
OBSlider, MPVolumeView with AirPlay, and Appirater...
One of the most requested features since My Artists launched in August has been a track scrubber.
My Artists 1.1.3 replaces the slider previously used to change volume with a control to monitor and adjust the current playback position.
OBSlider
I started with a standard UISlider with custom graphics. I quickly realised that, like in the iPod app, when trying to seek to a particular second...
December 2010
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50 free copies of My Artists to mark a sad but...
Donal Prendiville, my Grandad, was a great man who told terrible jokes. After telling a particularly cheesy joke he would laugh heartily and declare it to be one out of the top drawer.
Grandad lived and worked as a veterinary surgeon in Killorglin, Co. Kerry. He was a big athletic man with broad shoulders and a warm smile.
He died 10 years ago today on 20 December 2000 in Cork University...
November 2010
4 posts
Before and after: My Artists app sales temporarily...
I made My Artists free for a day last week in the hope that the attention it received during that day would help sales once it went back to being a paid app.
This chart shows revenue generated by My Artists in the week leading up to and the week following the promotion:
The app generated $13 of sales on the promotion day itself due to some discrepancies between when iTunes Connect logs a sale...
My Artists saw a huge increase in sales the day...
Two days ago I made My Artists free for a day in the hope that it would help boost sales once the promotion ended. I was unsure whether it would pay off but since sales of the app had dwindled I figured it was worth a shot.
Yesterday I reported how the app performed while free and adjusted the price to $0.99, a drop from its original $2.99 price tag.
This was not the first time I had tried a...
Making My Artists free yesterday is helping me...
Yesterday I discussed revenue generated from sales of My Artists to date and how I hoped to boost the figures by making the app free for a day.
My Artists was free all day yesterday which had minimal effect on my income since daily revenue had been quite low anyway.
While free however, My Artists was downloaded 27,602 times.
This made the app one of the top 10 free music apps in many...
How I hope making My Artists free for a day will...
I decided to throw caution to the wind and make My Artists free for a day. User feedback on the app has been overwhelmingly positive since it launched but sales have not always reflected that.
After a strong start, sales had dwindled to a daily average of 17.2 over the past two months.
Those two peaks represent the times I tried out US$0.99 promotions, the effect of which was minimal on...
October 2010
2 posts
Irish Web Awards 2010
To celebrate the fact that My Artists is a finalist in the Irish Web Awards tonight, I am putting the app on sale at $0.99/€0.79/£0.59 for the weekend.
Thanks to anyone who nominated or voted for the app. Thank you to Damien Mulley and the web awards team. And thank you to O2 who sponsor the Best Mobile Application category.
The other nominees in the category are:
Pocket Anatomy — fascinating...
My Artists Lite
My Artists Lite is now available as a free download from the App Store.
The only limitation of the lite version is that it loads just half the artists from your library. No other functionality has been removed and so the free version offers the perfect way to get familiar with what My Artists offers.
I imagine the free app will be downloaded much more that the paid app and am reasonably...
September 2010
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'My Artists' App Celebrates Leonard Cohen's...
21 September 2010
Press Release
Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet and musician, turns 76 this week and Top Drawer Apps, developer of My Artists for iPhone and iPod Touch, is marking the event by offering fans the chance to win free iPads by posting “Happy Birthday, Leonard” on Twitter with a link to http://myartistsapp.com.
My Artists enhances your music library with images, video, and...
August 2010
2 posts
3,000 Sales
When My Artists launched last week I set an explicit goal of 6,000 sales which would mark the end of the launch competition. I wasn’t so explicit about was how long I expected it to take, and that was because I genuinely had no clue.
I did not imagine however that after only 5 days of sales My Artists would be half way towards that target. Here’s how it happened:
And here’s a...
My Artists 1.0
I am delighted to announce that My Artists is now available in App Stores worldwide. It’s been a long road to get to this point. I look forward to blogging about the process of developing an app while traveling through South America and to continued development of the app, which has genuinely been a labour of love.
My Artists enhances your music library with images, video and text and...