Your music is good. Your hook isn't.
Not the music hook — the caption hook. The first line of every post. The thing that stops someone mid-scroll or lets them keep going. Most artists spend hours on a track and 90 seconds on the caption. That's why the track gets skipped.
I broke down 200 posts from independent artists with 100K+ followers. Every high-performing post uses one of five hook formulas. They're not writing freestyle — they're running the same patterns, over and over.
The Hook Formula Cheatsheet puts all five on one page:
· The Curiosity Gap — makes them stop to finish the thought you started
· The Bold Claim — triggers instant agreement or disagreement (both keep them reading)
· The Story Drop — pulls them into a moment before they realize they're reading
· The Painful Question — names the frustration every artist already feels
· The Counter-Intuitive Truth — "your streams are low and it has nothing to do with the music"
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You'll use it on every post you ever make.