A Nashville-based independent artist came to Playlists Plus with a new release and a familiar problem: no label support, no guarantees, and a healthy skepticism toward any promotion service promising "real" results. They had heard the pitch before. What they hadn't seen were the numbers to back it up. Their starting point: zero daily streams. Their goal: a meaningful, sustainable launch that would move the Spotify algorithm and build a real fanbase, not a vanity metric pad