Notoriety and because he can? Same reasons many hackers do what they do.
I'll concede that I wish he was doing it for the love of the music, but I don't think anyone who seriously loves music takes the charts seriously these days anyway (it's largely just recycled, generic and heavily watered down crap).
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.
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).
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.
Notoriety and because he can? Same reasons many hackers do what they do.
I'll concede that I wish he was doing it for the love of the music, but I don't think anyone who seriously loves music takes the charts seriously these days anyway (it's largely just recycled, generic and heavily watered down crap).