for follow 5000 followers without followers drop.
The best way is to gain real followers as opposed to fake followers.
Real followers can / will turn into fans who listen to your music and enjoy it (this is what it is all about right?)
Real followers will spread your music through word of mouth (the best way)
Real followers will intereact with your account through likes / comments / repost. Real organic promotion.
This should be your focus, not some arbritary 5,000 follower limit.
If you account is new with 0 follower, 0 plays, 0 likes, giving your self a starting boost is a good idea. But why the 5000 figure?
The idea behind giving your account a starting boost, is so that when people (real people) find your musics through search / shares, it doesn't appear empty. Seeing a track with 1000+ plays in total, with 100 plays this week, with some likes and comments and that the artist has a healthy follower count (this only needs to be 100s IMO), then you will be checked out.
Does having 5000 followers mean users surfing soundcloud will think "I must listen to this" more than 500?
So I would suggest a mentality shift and utilizing your energies differently. With the goal being real fans, not statistics.
But if you do want 5000+ followers, then
1) set up follow and unfollow routines to run daily automatically (playing a random song for each follow)
2) set up search and fav / like routines to run daily automatically (playing a random song for each follow)
3) set up search and track comment routines to run daily automatically (playing a random song for each follow)
This will take care of real followers
Then just start making accounts. In the latest update
http://soundcloudmanager.com/updatetesting.html you can now create Non-email verified accounts. Test those out, test email verified accounts, then bulk create as many as you can with the best proxies you can.
For each account, do something. Search and fav with play a few tracks. Search and comment on a few tracks (with play). Search and follow.
Then after a week or two, if the accounts are still alive, mass follow your account WITH A HUGE delay.
It is unusual for an account to get 1000 follows in an hour. SO DO NOT DO IT. Soundcloud can know your account does not have this traffic, then COULD fire off analysis of your stats and then decide to bulk ban. NOTE I do not know this, just thinking what soundcloud COULD do. Or another way, what would I do to detect bots if I owned soundcloud. YOU MUST BE THINKING LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME. Setup your routine with a big as pause as you can, one follow every 5 minutes with a single thread. Ok this will take a long time to give 5000 follows 5*5000= 17 days. But you need to trade off safety with results. 17 days. Isn't that long. Not if your end goal is better publicity for your music
This isn't a fault in SCM, if you choose to give yourself 5000 follows in an hour and get them all banned. The bot is just a dumb tool, it will do as it is told.