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Josh Holmes
04 September 2026

Where the project actually stands

Everything on this site comes from platform exports, invoices and contracts pulled on 4 September 2026. It exists so decisions get made against evidence rather than memory.

The goal

12-month goal

Return to Indonesia in 2027 with a bigger show than the 350-cap Jakarta sell-out — and turn a profit on it.

Two things still need pinning down: how big “bigger” is, and what “profit” means in numbers. Both now have most of the data behind them — see Money.

710,672lifetime Spotify streams
5,540monthly listeners
1,739Spotify followers
871owned email contacts
£983total ad spend, all time

The four findings that matter

1 — The constraint

Videos lose people after two seconds. Average watch time is 2.1–3.2 seconds across every video measured, and 0.3–2.3% watch to the end.

But the algorithm is working. 78–96% of TikTok views come from the For You page. The account is not suppressed. Reach is being granted; attention is not held.

Analytics
2 — The audience is real, and it is Indonesian

Confirmed from three independent directions: the mailing list is 97.4% Indonesian and 65.6% Jakarta, TikTok followers are 67.3% Indonesian, and the entire live audience is there.

Audience
3 — Acquisition works and is cheap; the failure was downstream

£424 of ads built an 871-person Jakarta email list at roughly 49p per contact. The same campaign shape in Coventry cost £9.88 per sign-up — 37x more.

Two things broke after that: the checkout could not take Indonesian payment methods, and the list has never been emailed.

Money
4 — The release process is not working

Everything released since January 2025 totals 10,201 streams — 1.4% of the catalogue. Two singles landed under 200 streams each. The Bali Sessions EP is out 16 October.

Plan

Open decisions

QuestionBlocksOwner
Which ticketing platform for 2027? Needs QRIS and e-wallets, and must settle to a UK accountEvery pound of 2027 revenueJosh
Has the 871-person list ever been emailed?The cheapest available winJosh
Where is the missing ~£4,000 from the 2026 show?Break-even price for 2027Josh
Has the Spotify editorial pitch gone in for the EP?16 October releaseJosh
Which pop punk bands land in Indonesia?Every content hookManager (Jakarta)