> Notoriety and because he can?

Yeah, I'm not trying to downplay what he did. More effort than he implies but still, mission accomplished.

It's just that he says his aim was:

to be a successful musician in the UK with a Top Five single in the charts

And he's talking like he achieved that, the easy way, with a "hack" no less. And it just doesn't seem to me like he's actually a successful musician yet.

The easy way?

If it were easy, everyone would have hundreds of thousands of Youtube subscribers and more video views than One Direction.

edit: OK, so his one direction stat is nonsense. It's still not easy.

With regards to the 'musician' label, I whole heartedly agree with you. Having both learned to play the guitar and learned to produce digital music, I've found term 'musician' is often over used by producers (not that I'm trying to undermine the skill required to be an adept producer, it's just a different skill).

agreed =) no musician found in here..

> Notoriety and because he can? Same reasons many hackers do what they do.

The difference is: if you are building a company you must sustain it in the medium/long term. Zynga/Groupon were hits but see where they are now.

I see this as a way to act if you are a company like Color, only thinking on an acquisition.

You're talking about entrepreneurs not hackers. While there's obviously room for overlap, this particular guy doesn't fall within the intersection between the two subsections of our social Venn diagram.