Charting can have other ripple effects as well. “Where [getting on the Hot 100] opens up doors is when trying to get gigs, trying to get some press – it’s an extra hook that gets people interested,” adds Kevin Breuner, VP of Marketing for CD Baby, which bills itself as “the largest global digital distributor of independent music.” “[Charting] is a filter that people use in order to say, ‘this is something I should pay attention to more.'”