Fabrice Sergent

Our guest today is Fabrice Sergent, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Bandsintown, where they “believe that live music is one of the last ‘tribal experiences’ which creates happiness and understanding in the world. Their mission is to help artists build a sustainable future through virtual live streams, music releases, merchandise and traditional live events promotion. With a reach of 250 million Monthly Active music fans globally, over 67m registered concert goers and 550k touring artists registered to the platform, Bandsintown offers powerful, scalable and targeted digital marketing solutions to engage with music enthusiasts.”According to his LinkedIn profile, Sergent is “an entrepreneur driven by passion, having led hyper growth digital media enterprises in the U.S. and in Europe with extensive experience in the music industry, digital consumer marketing, brand building, business development, and mergers &amp; acquisitions. He co-founded and led two start-ups to $100m+ revenues, starting his journey by founding Club-Internet, with the support of Lagardere/Hachette in 1995. Club-Internet was one of the very first Internet Service Provider (similar to AOL in the US) launched in France and later became one of the largest [Internet Service Providers] before it was purchased by Deutsche Telecom’s T-Online in 2000 for 1.2 billion Euro.”Today, we’ll look back on his road to music, what Bandsintown is up to nowadays, and what the future holds in store for live music.If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.

Our guest today is Fabrice Sergent, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Bandsintown, where they “believe that live music is one of the last ‘tribal experiences’ which creates happiness and understanding in the world. Their mission is to help artists build a sustainable future through virtual live streams, music releases, merchandise and traditional live events promotion. With a reach of 250 million Monthly Active music fans globally, over 67m registered concert goers and 550k touring artists registered to the platform, Bandsintown offers powerful, scalable and targeted digital marketing solutions to engage with music enthusiasts.”According to his LinkedIn profile, Sergent is “an entrepreneur driven by passion, having led hyper growth digital media enterprises in the U.S. and in Europe with extensive experience in the music industry, digital consumer marketing, brand building, business development, and mergers &amp; acquisitions. He co-founded and led two start-ups to $100m+ revenues, starting his journey by founding Club-Internet, with the support of Lagardere/Hachette in 1995. Club-Internet was one of the very first Internet Service Provider (similar to AOL in the US) launched in France and later became one of the largest [Internet Service Providers] before it was purchased by Deutsche Telecom’s T-Online in 2000 for 1.2 billion Euro.”Today, we’ll look back on his road to music, what Bandsintown is up to nowadays, and what the future holds in store for live music.If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

How Bandsintown Helps Artists Get Seen With Fabrice Sergent

Ian Urbina

Our guest today is Ian Urbina, the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project. The project is a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., that produces investigative stories about human rights, environment, and labor concerns on the open seas.Urbina won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News and a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting. Several of his stories have been adapted into major feature films, and his reporting for a New York Times Magazine article called The Secret Life Of Passwords was nominated for an Emmy Award.He has degrees in history and cultural anthropology from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago, respectively. Before joining The New York Times for roughly 17 years as a staff reporter, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Cuba, and he also wrote about the Middle East and Africa for various outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, and Vanity Fair.On this episode, we talk to Urbina about the Outlaw Ocean Music Project, an offshoot of The Outlaw Ocean Project that's "[a]imed at people who might not otherwise have encountered this reporting." According to the project's website, "[T]he music renders stories more viscerally, and delivers them to the public through different channels. The music project’s goal is to raise awareness and stoke a sense of urgency about the human rights, labor, and environmental abuses that occur at sea.”If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.

Our guest today is Ian Urbina, the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project. The project is a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., that produces investigative stories about human rights, environment, and labor concerns on the open seas.Urbina won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News and a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting. Several of his stories have been adapted into major feature films, and his reporting for a New York Times Magazine article called The Secret Life Of Passwords was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has degrees in history and cultural anthropology from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago, respectively. Before joining The New York Times for roughly 17 years as a staff reporter, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Cuba, and he also wrote about the Middle East and Africa for various outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, and Vanity Fair. On this episode, we talk to Urbina about the Outlaw Ocean Music Project, an offshoot of The Outlaw Ocean Project that's "[a]imed at people who might not otherwise have encountered this reporting." According to the project's website, "[T]he music renders stories more viscerally, and delivers them to the public through different channels. The music project’s goal is to raise awareness and stoke a sense of urgency about the human rights, labor, and environmental abuses that occur at sea.”If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

Navigating the Music Business With The Outlaw Ocean Project's Ian Urbina

Marc Brown

Our guest today is Marc Brown, Founder of Byta, a music sharing app that lets artists, studios, and managers share, collaborate on, and promote secure music files before uploading them to streaming services. Marc is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden, though he is originally from Canada and spent many years in London working in A&amp;R and artist promotion. On this episode, we discuss how he came to found Byta, what sets the app apart from DropBox and Soundcloud, and what this might mean for the future of Hi-Fi audio and NFTs.Check out Byta here.To attend a free Byta symposium that explores "how the music ecosystem will evolve and adapt to the developing digital landscape," register here.Byta recently published a white paper on the state of music sharing, which you can check out here.If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.

Our guest today is Marc Brown, Founder of Byta, a music sharing app that lets artists, studios, and managers share, collaborate on, and promote secure music files before uploading them to streaming services. Marc is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden, though he is originally from Canada and spent many years in London working in A&amp;R and artist promotion. On this episode, we discuss how he came to found Byta, what sets the app apart from DropBox and Soundcloud, and what this might mean for the future of Hi-Fi audio and NFTs.<a href="https://byta.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out Byta here.</a><a href="https://byta.com/howwelisten/event/rebooting-the-music-mainframe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">To attend a free Byta symposium that explores "how the music ecosystem will evolve and adapt to the developing digital landscape," register here.</a><a href="https://byta.com/resources/whitepaper/state-of-music-sharing-2021" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Byta recently published a white paper on the state of music sharing, which you can check out here.</a>If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

The Power of Music Metadata With Byta Founder Marc Brown

Before starting Chartmetric, Sung worked on Sales Cloud as the Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, he was the first employee/engineer at the publicly-traded gaming company Gamevil (which has a Market Cap of $400MM), where he initiated mobile game development and eventually positioned the company as a leading mobile game developer. Sung graduated with a bachelor’s degree of electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.He enjoys posting ideas on his blog (http://sungmooncho.com), which has attracted more than 5 million views and is considered as one of the leading tech blogs in Korea. Sung has invested in 10 startups in New York, Silicon Valley, and Seoul (http://angel.co/sung-cho).If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here. 

Before starting Chartmetric, Sung worked on Sales Cloud as the Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, he was the first employee/engineer at the publicly-traded gaming company Gamevil (which has a Market Cap of $400MM), where he initiated mobile game development and eventually positioned the company as a leading mobile game developer.  Sung graduated with a bachelor’s degree of electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. He enjoys posting ideas on his blog (<a href="http://sungmooncho.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sungmooncho.com</a>), which has attracted more than 5 million views and is considered as one of the leading tech blogs in Korea. Sung has invested in 10 startups in New York, Silicon Valley, and Seoul (<a href="http://angel.co/sung-cho" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://angel.co/sung-cho</a>). If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

A Fireside Chat With Chartmetric Founder Sung Cho

Russ Tannen

Russ Tannen is President of DICE, a UK- and now NYC-based mobile ticketing, live streaming, and live music recommendation platform that partners directly with venues, labels, and promoters to bring upfront pricing to live music fans (no fees are added at checkout, so the price you see at first is the price you get). Before rising through the ranks at DICE, Russ spent many years as an artist manager at Deadly Management during — and after — his time as an Events Manager at Vice Media. Before that, Russ studied Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in the UK.Read 20 things we've learned about Music Live Streaming by DICE Founder &amp; CEO Phil Hutcheon.Check out DICE here, and download the app on your phone.If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.

Russ Tannen is President of DICE, a UK- and now NYC-based mobile ticketing, live streaming, and live music recommendation platform that partners directly with venues, labels, and promoters to bring upfront pricing to live music fans (no fees are added at checkout, so the price you see at first is the price you get). Before rising through the ranks at DICE, Russ spent many years as an artist manager at Deadly Management during — and after — his time as an Events Manager at Vice Media. Before that, Russ studied Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in the UK.Read <a href="https://medium.com/@philhutcheon/20-things-weve-learned-about-music-live-streaming-fdaac628faf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20 things we've learned about Music Live Streaming</a> by DICE Founder &amp; CEO Phil Hutcheon.<a href="https://dice.fm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out DICE here, and download the app on your phone.</a>If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

Disrupting Live Music With DICE President Russ Tannen

Firas Abou Fakher

The Arab nations have rarely been viewed as important markets by the global music industry. And artists from the region have only ever achieved modest international success. Until 20 years ago, exactly the same could be said of countless other countries. Today, markets like Latin America and South Korea produce global superstars with astonishing regularity.If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.

The Arab nations have rarely been viewed as important markets by the global music industry. And artists from the region have only ever achieved modest international success. Until 20 years ago, exactly the same could be said of countless other countries. Today, markets like Latin America and South Korea produce global superstars with astonishing regularity.If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

Music Trends in Arab Countries With Firas Abou Fakher

Milana Lewis

Our guest today is Milana Lewis, Co-Founder and CEO of Stem, a platform making it easier for artists, managers, labels and brands to distribute music, manage contracts, share data, split royalties, and stay independent. After six years working in talent agencies, spending the majority of that time as a Digital Media Agent with United Talent Agency, Milana started Stem in 2015 with the goal of simplifying how musicians and their teams pay collaborators. At the start of 2020, Stem announced Scale, a $100 million cash advance program aimed at giving artists a way to access alternative funding with fewer restrictions than a label typically imposes. This year, Inc. featured Milana on their Female Founders 100 list.Check out Stem here.If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.

Our guest today is Milana Lewis, Co-Founder and CEO of Stem, a platform making it easier for artists, managers, labels and brands to distribute music, manage contracts, share data, split royalties, and stay independent. After six years working in talent agencies, spending the majority of that time as a Digital Media Agent with United Talent Agency, Milana started Stem in 2015 with the goal of simplifying how musicians and their teams pay collaborators. At the start of 2020, Stem announced Scale, a $100 million cash advance program aimed at giving artists a way to access alternative funding with fewer restrictions than a label typically imposes. This year, Inc. featured Milana on their Female Founders 100 list.<a href="https://stem.is" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out Stem here.</a>If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

Lessons for Artists and Leaders With Stem CEO Milana Lewis

Dave Melhado

UnitedMasters’ Head of Marketing David Melhado (mel-HEY-doh) is a New York City-based industry veteran who first cut his teeth in music marketing and management in the South, holding roles at Atlantic Records, iHeartRadio, StreamCut Media &amp; RocNation. Connect With Dave on LinkedIn and check out UnitedMasters here.If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here. 

UnitedMasters’ Head of Marketing David Melhado (mel-HEY-doh) is a New York City-based industry veteran who first cut his teeth in music marketing and management in the South, holding roles at Atlantic Records, iHeartRadio, StreamCut Media &amp; RocNation. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemelhado/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Connect With Dave on LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://unitedmasters.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">check out UnitedMasters here</a>.If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

How to Distribute and Monetize Your Music With UnitedMasters' Dave Melhado

Aileen Crowley

On this episode, we chat with Aileen Crowley, former Vice President of Global Streaming Marketing at Universal Music Group. Before leaving the major label world in November 2020, Aileen devised data-driven streaming strategy for developing artists, working directly with artist management to translate streaming analytics, develop artist release strategies, and implement plans for audience growth. Prior to that, Aileen was the General Manager of DigSin, a subscription-based independent music label focused on singles, playlisting, and data, as well as being an artist manager—and that was after spending almost seven years at world-renowned consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Co. Today, Aileen runs The Streaming Story, a website dedicated to contextualizing streaming success with the narrative surrounding that success.Since recording this interview, Aileen has teamed up with Lark42, a digital consultancy that solves hard problems in the music, data, blockchain, streaming and startup space.You can connect with Aileen on LinkedIn here.If you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.

On this episode, we chat with Aileen Crowley, former Vice President of Global Streaming Marketing at Universal Music Group. Before leaving the major label world in November 2020, Aileen devised data-driven streaming strategy for developing artists, working directly with artist management to translate streaming analytics, develop artist release strategies, and implement plans for audience growth.  Prior to that, Aileen was the General Manager of DigSin, a subscription-based independent music label focused on singles, playlisting, and data, as well as being an artist manager—and that was after spending almost seven years at world-renowned consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Co. Today, Aileen runs <a href="https://thestreamingstory.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Streaming Story</a>, a website dedicated to contextualizing streaming success with the narrative surrounding that success.Since recording this interview, Aileen has teamed up with <a href="https://www.lark42.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lark42</a>, a digital consultancy that solves hard problems in the music, data, blockchain, streaming and startup space.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/aileenlcrowley/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">You can connect with Aileen on LinkedIn here.</a> If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

From Playlists to Mailing Lists With Aileen Crowley

Aqui Kumar, Jannick Steinke, Sebastian Gorki, and Valerian Dilger are music business students at the Popakademie in Germany. “Established in 2003, the Popakademie is a higher education institution for the music and creative industries and their pop cultural scenes. By focusing its study programmes on popular music, it offers an academic education that is unique in Germany's public university landscape.” In this context, the students are part of Popakademie’s SMIX.LAB. Founded in 2008 as an interface between the online world and the traditional music industry, SMIX.LAB sees itself as a center for the digital music business. It integrates digital knowledge and future-oriented research, investigating the modern possibilities of music marketing and other forward-thinking initiatives.The students themselves have industry experience at companies such as Live From Earth, Electric Feel, Amazon Music, and Ease Agency. Over the past few months, the Chartmetric team supported the students in their project to study how TikTok is influencing the German charts.Check out their exciting research on our blog: https://blog.chartmetric.comIf you want more free insights, follow our podcast, our blog, and our socials.If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here. 

Aqui Kumar, Jannick Steinke, Sebastian Gorki, and Valerian Dilger are music business students at the <a href="https://www.popakademie.de/en/studium/studieren-an-der-popakademie/smix-lab/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Popakademie</a> in Germany.  “Established in 2003, the Popakademie is a higher education institution for the music and creative industries and their pop cultural scenes. By focusing its study programmes on popular music, it offers an academic education that is unique in Germany's public university landscape.”  In this context, the students are part of Popakademie’s SMIX.LAB. Founded in 2008 as an interface between the online world and the traditional music industry, SMIX.LAB sees itself as a center for the digital music business. It integrates digital knowledge and future-oriented research, investigating the modern possibilities of music marketing and other forward-thinking initiatives. The students themselves have industry experience at companies such as Live From Earth, Electric Feel, Amazon Music, and Ease Agency. Over the past few months, the Chartmetric team supported the students in <a href="https://www.popakademie.de/en/studium/studieren-an-der-popakademie/smix-lab/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">their project to study how TikTok is influencing the German charts</a>. Check out their exciting research on our blog: <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://blog.chartmetric.com</a>If you want more free insights, follow our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/how-music-charts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast</a>, our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, and our <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.com/social" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socials</a>.<a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/plan/artist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're an artist with a free Chartmetric account, sign up for the artist plan, made exclusively for you, here.</a><a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">If you're new to Chartmetric, follow the URL above after creating a free account here.</a>

How the TikTok Charts Influence the German Charts With Popakademie

Welcome to How Music Charts, a music business podcast by Chartmetric. Join the music industry's brightest minds as they bridge data, culture, and creativity in real time. Looking for more? Sign up for a free account at chartmetric.com, subscribe to Beats &amp; Bytes at blog.chartmetric.com, and reach out on our socials.

Really useful. But more importantly, fun!

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How Music Charts

  Highlights  With a head-to-head comparison between the Apple Music Video and YouTube Music Video charts, we’ll expand your understanding of chart behavior through a chart velocity analysis.    Mission    Good morning, it’s Rutger here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world. We’re on the socials at “chartmetric” — that’s Chartmetric, no “S.”  Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.    DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, Sept. 13th, 2019.   Apple vs. YouTube Music Video Velocity Looking at Apple Music Video and YouTube Music Video charts, pure chart rank can tell us a lot — but not everything. And that’s where chart velocity comes in.  Chart velocity measures a track’s — or in this case, a music video’s — behavior on a chart within a predetermined time period. For the Apple Music Video and YouTube Music Video charts, we track 7-Day Velocity, or how a given music video has performed on each chart in the last week — irrespective of its pure position. It could be No. 1, or it could be No. 150 — what we’re looking at here is time-constrained growth trends, which can expand our understanding about how contextual factors might be influencing those micro-trends. For Apple, Post Malone’s “Sunflower” leads with a Velocity of a bit more than three, even though its pure chart rank is No. 42. Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is next up at two, even though its pure chart rank is No. 28. Both songs were released about a year ago, give or take, which makes sense if you consider that Apple isn’t a music video platform, so major hits just kind of linger. However, YouTube features the actual newest viral videos. And that’s probably why YouTube’s Velocity leaders are totally different, as is the correlation between their Velocity scores and their pure chart ranks. On YouTube, Polo G’s “Effortless” leads with a bit more than seven, in terms of Velocity rank. The music video is ranked 11th overall. At second is Tainy, Anuel AA, and Ozuna’s “Adicto,” which is ranked No. 6 overall with a 2.6 Velocity score. Here’s the interesting thing: Polo G’s music video has jumped some 50 spots, and “Adicto” had an 18 spot fluctuation.  On Apple Music, the change was nine and 13 spots, respectively.  Couple that with the fact that Apple’s top velocity music videos are near catalogue material and YouTube’s top velocity music videos are decidedly frontline, and you get a sense of what Velocity is measuring on each respective platform. Note, for instance, that songs from Post Malone’s new album, which was released just a week ago, are in every Top 10 spot on the Apple Music Daily Track chart. On YouTube, only two are — “Sunflower” and “Circles.” As such, on Apple, music videos can continue to climb the charts, irrespective of release date and according to new album marketing drivers. On YouTube, music videos climb the charts according to freshness and virality. Or so it seems.   Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Sept. 13th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric. Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com  And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com  Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week! 

<ul> <li> Highlights  <ul><li>With a head-to-head comparison between the Apple Music Video and YouTube Music Video charts, we’ll expand your understanding of chart behavior through a chart velocity analysis. </li></ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul> <li>Good morning, it’s Rutger here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li> <li>We’re on the socials at “chartmetric” — that’s Chartmetric, no “S.” </li> <li>Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Friday, Sept. 13th, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Apple vs. YouTube Music Video Velocity<ul> <li>Looking at Apple Music Video and YouTube Music Video charts, pure chart rank can tell us a lot — but not everything.</li> <li>And that’s where chart velocity comes in. </li> <li>Chart velocity measures a track’s — or in this case, a music video’s — behavior on a chart within a predetermined time period.</li> <li>For the Apple Music Video and YouTube Music Video charts, we track 7-Day Velocity, or how a given music video has performed on each chart in the last week — irrespective of its pure position.</li> <li>It could be No. 1, or it could be No. 150 — what we’re looking at here is time-constrained growth trends, which can expand our understanding about how contextual factors might be influencing those micro-trends.</li> <li>For Apple, Post Malone’s “Sunflower” leads with a Velocity of a bit more than three, even though its pure chart rank is No. 42.</li> <li>Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is next up at two, even though its pure chart rank is No. 28.</li> <li>Both songs were released about a year ago, give or take, which makes sense if you consider that Apple isn’t a music video platform, so major hits just kind of linger.</li> <li>However, YouTube features the actual newest viral videos.</li> <li>And that’s probably why YouTube’s Velocity leaders are totally different, as is the correlation between their Velocity scores and their pure chart ranks.</li> <li>On YouTube, Polo G’s “Effortless” leads with a bit more than seven, in terms of Velocity rank.</li> <li>The music video is ranked 11th overall.</li> <li>At second is Tainy, Anuel AA, and Ozuna’s “Adicto,” which is ranked No. 6 overall with a 2.6 Velocity score.</li> <li>Here’s the interesting thing: Polo G’s music video has jumped some 50 spots, and “Adicto” had an 18 spot fluctuation. </li> <li>On Apple Music, the change was nine and 13 spots, respectively. </li> <li>Couple that with the fact that Apple’s top velocity music videos are near catalogue material and YouTube’s top velocity music videos are decidedly frontline, and you get a sense of what Velocity is measuring on each respective platform.</li> <li>Note, for instance, that songs from Post Malone’s new album, which was released just a week ago, are in every Top 10 spot on the Apple Music Daily Track chart.</li> <li>On YouTube, only two are — “Sunflower” and “Circles.”</li> <li>As such, on Apple, music videos can continue to climb the charts, irrespective of release date and according to new album marketing drivers.</li> <li>On YouTube, music videos climb the charts according to freshness and virality.</li> <li>Or so it seems.</li> </ul> </li> </ul>Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Sept. 13th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are available at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week! </li></ul>

Apple vs. YouTube Music Video Velocity

Brazilian Deezer

Deezer

 Highlights Imagine Dragons reigns supreme on the Amazon Music Top Songs chart Power couple Karol G and Anuel AA make a perfect Instagram pairing Deezer Music continues to make in-roads in Brazil with three playlists rapidly growing their follower counts   MissionGood morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.  DateThis is your Data Dump for Wed March 20th 2019.  Charts American pop rock band Imagine Dragons is currently dominating the Amazon Music Top Songs chart with six tracks in the 100-track chart. According to MIDiA Research’s mid-2018 market report, Amazon Music is the #3 biggest streaming platform in the world by paying subscribers, at 12% market share and 27.9M subscribers. As of yesterday March 19th, six of tracks from the Las Vegas-born band stagger the platform’s most played songs from position 10 down to position 82. The mid-tempo track “Natural” leads the group from Imagine Dragons’ latest album “Origins” in the number 10 spot, while the sample-laden record “Thunder” is next in the number 26 spot, from their 2017 album “Evolve”. In case you were missing their smash hit “Radioactive”, it’s still showing lots of gas left in the tank in the 82nd spot on the Amazon Music chart, while clocking in 849M spins on Spotify.   Artist Highlight in the News Colombian artist Karol G and Puerto Rican artist Anuel AA are hanging strong in the Top 100 Spotify artists by monthly listeners, with Karol G at number 87 with 20.7M and Anuel AA at number 64 with 23.7M. The Latin power couple publicly built a relationship over most of 2017 and 2018 through an enduring series of Instagram posts together, to their fans delight: their combined IG audience adds up to over 28M followers. From a business perspective, their relationship seemingly combines their audiences brilliantly: their top 3 Spotify cities by monthly listeners are virtually identical: Santiago, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. Their top countries by YouTube views are also the same: Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.  But according to their Instagram demographics, their gender split is the mirror opposite: ¾ of Karol G’s followers are female and ¼ male, while Anuel AA’s followers are ¾ male and ¼ female. And all that data adds up to a great way to pack their next stadium.   Playlist Round-Up  Deezer Music, the #5 most used streaming service worldwide by subscriber count, wedged between Tencent Music at #4 and Google at #6, is getting the Brazilian traction they wanted with several new playlists. “Vem pro Sertanejo” leads the pack with 48K new followers (or 4% growth) over the past month totalling at 1.2M, which highlights a popular domestic genre that loosely parallels the Brazilian version of American country music.  “Funkadão”, a high-energy playlist focused filling dance floors, is the 2nd fastest growing playlist at 39K more followers than the last month, totalling at 1M.  Serving as evidence that Deezer’s domestic repertoire-first approach is working there, Deezer’s third fastest growing playlist is “Sertanejo Apaixonado”, another sertanejo genre list with 6% follower growth in the past month, totalling 554K followers. According to Music Ally, a whopping ⅔ of the $90M streaming market in Brazil were subscription-based in 2016, so it looks like they’ve been onto something.    Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday March 20th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, virtually all this data is available at your fingertips, feel free to sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signup. That’s chartmetric (no s) dot IO slash signup. Bye for now!  

<ul> <li>Highlights<ul> <li>Imagine Dragons reigns supreme on the Amazon Music Top Songs chart</li> <li>Power couple Karol G and Anuel AA make a perfect Instagram pairing</li> <li>Deezer Music continues to make in-roads in Brazil with three playlists rapidly growing their follower counts</li> </ul> </li> <li>Mission<ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li>Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Wed March 20th 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li>Charts<ul> <li>American pop rock band Imagine Dragons is currently dominating the Amazon Music Top Songs chart with six tracks in the 100-track chart.</li> <li>According to MIDiA Research’s mid-2018 market <a href="http://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/mid-year-2018-streaming-market-shares/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">report</a>, Amazon Music is the #3 biggest streaming platform in the world by paying subscribers, at 12% market share and 27.9M subscribers.</li> <li>As of yesterday March 19th, six of tracks from the Las Vegas-born band stagger the platform’s most played songs from position 10 down to position 82.</li> <li>The mid-tempo track “Natural” leads the group from Imagine Dragons’ latest album “Origins” in the number 10 spot, while the sample-laden record “Thunder” is next in the number 26 spot, from their 2017 album “Evolve”.</li> <li>In case you were missing their smash hit “Radioactive”, it’s still showing lots of gas left in the tank in the 82nd spot on the Amazon Music chart, while clocking in 849M spins on Spotify.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Artist Highlight in the News<ul> <li>Colombian artist Karol G and Puerto Rican artist Anuel AA are hanging strong in the Top 100 Spotify artists by monthly listeners, with Karol G at number 87 with 20.7M and Anuel AA at number 64 with 23.7M.</li> <li>The Latin power couple publicly built a relationship over most of 2017 and 2018 through an enduring series of Instagram posts together, to their fans delight: their combined IG audience adds up to over 28M followers.</li> <li>From a business perspective, their relationship seemingly combines their audiences brilliantly: their top 3 Spotify cities by monthly listeners are virtually identical: Santiago, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. Their top countries by YouTube views are also the same: Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. </li> <li>But according to their Instagram demographics, their gender split is the mirror opposite: ¾ of Karol G’s followers are female and ¼ male, while Anuel AA’s followers are ¾ male and ¼ female. And all that data adds up to a great way to pack their next stadium.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Playlist Round-Up <ul> <li>Deezer Music, the #5 most used streaming service worldwide by subscriber count, <a href="http://www.midiaresearch.com/blog/mid-year-2018-streaming-market-shares/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wedged</a> between Tencent Music at #4 and Google at #6, is getting the Brazilian traction they wanted with several new playlists.</li> <li>“Vem pro Sertanejo” leads the pack with 48K new followers (or 4% growth) over the past month totalling at 1.2M, which highlights a popular domestic genre that loosely parallels the Brazilian version of American country music. </li> <li>“Funkadão”, a high-energy playlist focused filling dance floors, is the 2nd fastest growing playlist at 39K more followers than the last month, totalling at 1M. </li> <li>Serving as evidence that Deezer’s domestic repertoire-first approach is working there, Deezer’s third fastest growing playlist is “Sertanejo Apaixonado”, another sertanejo genre list with 6% follower growth in the past month, totalling 554K followers.</li> <li>According to Music Ally, a whopping ⅔ of the $90M streaming market in Brazil were <a href="https://musically.com/2018/04/04/deezer-optimistic-subscriptions-growth-brazil/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">subscription-based</a> in 2016, so it looks like they’ve been onto something. </li> </ul> </li> <li>Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday March 20th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, virtually all this data is available at your fingertips, feel free to sign up for a free account at <a href="http://chartmetric.io/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.io/signup</a>. That’s chartmetric (no s) dot IO slash signup.</li> <li>Bye for now!</li> </ul> </li></ul>

2019-03-20 // Imagine Dragons on Amazon Music Top Songs chart, Karol G & Anuel AA on Instagram and Brazilian Deezer playlists

  HighlightsShazam isn’t just in the music fingerprinting and identification game — it’s also playlisting on Apple Music with Shazam Recommends: Best New Music.    Mission   Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Monday, June 10, 2019.   New Music Friday Monday: Shazam’s Best New Music Recommendations … on Apple Music? Did you know that Shazam moonlights as playlisting curator on Apple Music? It’s currently managing 11 official playlists, including a mix of prediction-oriented genre-based ones like “Shazam Risers: Latin” or “Shazam Risers: K-Pop”, or exclusive celebrity playlists from the likes of David Guetta or BLACKPINK. Interestingly, Shazam also runs the “Shazam Recommends: The Best New Music” playlist, which is refreshed primarily on Fridays and Saturdays.  Apple acquired Shazam in September of 2018, though we have Shazam playlists dating back to early 2017. So now that Shazam is now officially an Apple asset, it’s likely Apple Music is incorporating Shazam’s unique predictive dataset as a way to predict future hits...but does it actually work? If we compare last week’s Shazam “Best New Music” playlist with the Apple Music Top 100 charts today, we can try to see if- at least within the Apple Music platform- that actually becomes true or not. After some quick spot checks, the Shazam “Best New Music” playlist is actually global: it’s the same tracks and ordering no matter which country storefront you’re listening from. So the best comparison would naturally be the Apple Music Top 100 Global chart. The last Shazam “Best New Music” playlist was updated on June 1st, and comparing it to today’s Apple Top 100 global chart, there are actually four tracks in common: “The London” by Young Thug at #2 on the Top 100 “Cross Me” by Ed Sheeran at #28 “Don’t Call Me Up” by Mabel at #59 “Easier” by Five Seconds of Summer at #66 of the Top 100   So out of last week’s “Best New Music” playlist, 4 of out of the 24 total tracks ended up charting one week later, about 15%. Pretty cool. Now, cross-checking last week’s “Best New Music” playlist, but now comparing it to Shazam’s own Top 200 chart, which is its own chart independent of the Apple platform, we have the same, and only the same, four tracks pop up: the ones from Young Thug, Ed Sheeran, Mabel and Five Seconds of Summer. That’s interesting because finding tracks that are only on Apple’s Top charts are subject to Apple algorithms and other playlists, while Shazam Top charts are privy to being played in public spaces and people having the app and Shazaming those tracks. But to find the same track on both charts, must really mean that the tracks are achieving a kind of success both in user curiosity and actual streaming activity on one of biggest platforms in the world. Now, what feeds Shazam’s “Best New Music” playlist in the first place, as they are all new releases and so Shazam doesn’t really have any data on them...well, we don’t know either. Maybe they are doing granular music analysis on the song waveforms or maybe it’s just a result of traditional playlist pitching, but what we can measure in the data, is see which ones stick. Just give it a week!    Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday, June 10, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signup  And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com. Happy Monday, see you tomorrow!  

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul><li>Shazam isn’t just in the music fingerprinting and identification game — it’s also playlisting on Apple Music with Shazam Recommends: Best New Music. </li></ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Monday, June 10, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> New Music Friday Monday: Shazam’s Best New Music Recommendations … on Apple Music?<ul> <li>Did you know that Shazam moonlights as playlisting curator on Apple Music?</li> <li>It’s currently managing 11 official playlists, including a mix of prediction-oriented genre-based ones like “Shazam Risers: Latin” or “Shazam Risers: K-Pop”, or exclusive celebrity playlists from the likes of David Guetta or BLACKPINK.</li> <li>Interestingly, Shazam also runs the “Shazam Recommends: The Best New Music” playlist, which is refreshed primarily on Fridays and Saturdays.</li> <li> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17896350/apple-shazam-app-acquisition-complete-free" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple acquired Shazam in September of 2018</a>, though we have Shazam playlists dating back to early 2017.</li> <li>So now that Shazam is now officially an Apple asset, it’s likely Apple Music is incorporating Shazam’s unique predictive dataset as a way to predict future hits...but does it actually work?</li> <li>If we compare last week’s Shazam “Best New Music” playlist with the Apple Music Top 100 charts today, we can try to see if- at least within the Apple Music platform- that actually becomes true or not.</li> <li>After some quick spot checks, the Shazam “Best New Music” playlist is actually global: it’s the same tracks and ordering no matter which country storefront you’re listening from. So the best comparison would naturally be the Apple Music Top 100 Global chart.</li> <li>The last Shazam “Best New Music” playlist was updated on June 1st, and comparing it to today’s Apple Top 100 global chart, there are actually four tracks in common:<ul> <li>“The London” by Young Thug at #2 on the Top 100</li> <li>“Cross Me” by Ed Sheeran at #28</li> <li>“Don’t Call Me Up” by Mabel at #59</li> <li>“Easier” by Five Seconds of Summer at #66 of the Top 100</li> </ul> </li> <li>So out of last week’s “Best New Music” playlist, 4 of out of the 24 total tracks ended up charting one week later, about 15%. Pretty cool.</li> <li>Now, cross-checking last week’s “Best New Music” playlist, but now comparing it to Shazam’s own Top 200 chart, which is its own chart independent of the Apple platform, we have the same, and only the same, four tracks pop up: the ones from Young Thug, Ed Sheeran, Mabel and Five Seconds of Summer.</li> <li>That’s interesting because finding tracks that are only on Apple’s Top charts are subject to Apple algorithms and other playlists, while Shazam Top charts are privy to being played in public spaces and people having the app and Shazaming those tracks.</li> <li>But to find the same track on both charts, must really mean that the tracks are achieving a kind of success both in user curiosity and actual streaming activity on one of biggest platforms in the world.</li> <li>Now, what feeds Shazam’s “Best New Music” playlist in the first place, as they are all new releases and so Shazam doesn’t really have any data on them...well, we don’t know either.</li> <li>Maybe they are doing granular music analysis on the song waveforms or maybe it’s just a result of traditional playlist pitching, but what we can measure in the data, is see which ones stick. Just give it a week!</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday, June 10, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">app.chartmetric.com/signup</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a>.</li> <li>Happy Monday, see you tomorrow!</li> </ul> </li></ul>

New Music Friday Monday: Shazam’s Best New Music Recommendations…on Apple Music?

  Highlights  It’s Found on Friday, and we’re using Spotify playlist adds and reach to introduce you to a tropical DJ from Spain, an American lo-fi beats producer and an Irish singer-songwriter with literary flair.   Mission   Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, June 7th, 2019.   Found on Friday: Playlist Reach Uncovers a Galician DJ, an American lo-fi beats producer and an Irish Literary Songwriter It’s Found on Friday, which means we are digitally crate-digging for new artists in the proverbial streaming record shops of the Internets, and this time through the lens of “reach”. In the world of social media, reach is the unique number of people who see a particular piece of content, and we can contrast that with “impressions”, which are the total number of times they see that content, and “engagement”, which is the number of interactions those audience members actively take upon that content. In Spotify’s streaming world, reach in one sense is obviously playlisting, and we can aggregate how many followers a particular playlist has, and at the artist-level, aggregate how many total playlist followers that artist has at any given point. These of course are non-unique follower counts, as we all are probably following dozens if not hundreds of playlists from each of our single profiles. Nevertheless, it’s still a measure of reach, and that can be an important metric for determining which artists are in a great position to break.  Now ranked by number of new popular playlists adds in the past 30 days, Spanish DJ Zeper occupies the #1 spot today. From Pontevedra, Galicia, the young producer has a very accessible tropical dance vibe that has Majestic Casual vibes and would easily fit in any college student’s chillout or study playlist.  Currently on 50 playlists with 10K or more followers, Zeper’s total playlist reach is over 2.8M followers, growing over 45K total followers since last week. His latest release was “Stop” on May 31st collaborating with another emerging artist KRIMETZ. Now added on an additional 39 playlists with over 10K followers each is American artist Hurley Mower. With his polished take on the lo-fi beats genre, Mower gained nearly another 30K aggregated playlist followers in the past week, bringing him over the 2M mark. With 207K monthly listeners and only 5.3K followers on his own Spotify profile, he’s got a listener to follower ratio of 38, which definitely puts him well into the promising artist category for that metric. Last but not least is Jealous of the Birds. Such an interesting name. On 5 playlists with more than 10K followers, the Irish singer-songwriter has over 767K total playlist followers, including Spotify’s Evening Acoustic playlist in the 84/100 spot and the Sad Indie playlist in the 60/80 position. She’s no stranger to attention however, her previous tracks have been from NPR’s All Songs Considered and BBC Radio 1’s Tune of the Week. No matter what you’re vibe, there’s some new artists hanging out on your smartphone, check them out this weekend!   Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, June 7th, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Do you like this podcast? Does it help your day? If so, this is the part where we grovel at your feet for an iTunes rating or review...we are a business to business podcast, so it’s not like we’re trying to blow up, but if we can grow our audience some more to maybe start a music data interest community, we think that could be a really cool thing. So if you like what we do, please give us a shout-out on iTunes. If you’re on an iPhone, just scroll all the way down on the Daily Data Dump page in your Apple Podcasts app or in the Ratings and Review tab in your iTunes app on your laptop, and show some love, Rutger and I will do a silent happy dance for every star that we get. Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signup  And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com  Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and see you on Monday!

<ul> <li> Highlights  <ul><li>It’s Found on Friday, and we’re using Spotify playlist adds and reach to introduce you to a tropical DJ from Spain, an American lo-fi beats producer and an Irish singer-songwriter with literary flair.</li></ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Friday, June 7th, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Found on Friday: Playlist Reach Uncovers a Galician DJ, an American lo-fi beats producer and an Irish Literary Songwriter<ul> <li>It’s Found on Friday, which means we are digitally crate-digging for new artists in the proverbial streaming record shops of the Internets, and this time through the lens of “reach”.</li> <li>In the world of <a href="https://www.adweek.com/digital/cutting-through-the-social-media-jargon-what-are-reach-impressions-and-engagement/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">social media</a>, reach is the unique number of people who see a particular piece of content, and we can contrast that with “impressions”, which are the total number of times they see that content, and “engagement”, which is the number of interactions those audience members actively take upon that content.</li> <li>In Spotify’s streaming world, reach in one sense is obviously playlisting, and we can aggregate how many followers a particular playlist has, and at the artist-level, aggregate how many total playlist followers that artist has at any given point.</li> <li>These of course are non-unique follower counts, as we all are probably following dozens if not hundreds of playlists from each of our single profiles.</li> <li>Nevertheless, it’s still a measure of reach, and that can be an important metric for determining which artists are in a great position to break. </li> <li>Now ranked by number of new popular playlists adds in the past 30 days, Spanish DJ Zeper occupies the #1 spot today.</li> <li>From Pontevedra, Galicia, the young producer has a very accessible tropical dance vibe that has Majestic Casual vibes and would easily fit in any college student’s chillout or study playlist. </li> <li>Currently on 50 playlists with 10K or more followers, Zeper’s total playlist reach is over 2.8M followers, growing over 45K total followers since last week.</li> <li>His latest release was “Stop” on May 31st collaborating with another emerging artist KRIMETZ.</li> <li>Now added on an additional 39 playlists with over 10K followers each is American artist Hurley Mower.</li> <li>With his polished take on the lo-fi beats genre, Mower gained nearly another 30K aggregated playlist followers in the past week, bringing him over the 2M mark.</li> <li>With 207K monthly listeners and only 5.3K followers on his own Spotify profile, he’s got a listener to follower ratio of 38, which definitely puts him well into the promising artist category for that metric.</li> <li>Last but not least is Jealous of the Birds. Such an interesting name.</li> <li>On 5 playlists with more than 10K followers, the Irish singer-songwriter has over 767K total playlist followers, including Spotify’s Evening Acoustic playlist in the 84/100 spot and the Sad Indie playlist in the 60/80 position.</li> <li>She’s no stranger to attention however, her previous tracks have been from NPR’s All Songs Considered and BBC Radio 1’s Tune of the Week.</li> <li>No matter what you’re vibe, there’s some new artists hanging out on your smartphone, check them out this weekend!</li> </ul> </li> </ul>Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, June 7th, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Do you like this podcast? Does it help your day? If so, this is the part where we grovel at your feet for an iTunes rating or review...we are a business to business podcast, so it’s not like we’re trying to blow up, but if we can grow our audience some more to maybe start a music data interest community, we think that could be a really cool thing.</li> <li>So if you like what we do, please give us a shout-out on iTunes. If you’re on an iPhone, just scroll all the way down on the Daily Data Dump page in your Apple Podcasts app or in the Ratings and Review tab in your iTunes app on your laptop, and show some love, Rutger and I will do a silent happy dance for every star that we get.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">app.chartmetric.com/signup</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and see you on Monday!</li></ul>

Playlist Reach Uncovers a Galician DJ, an American lo-fi beats producer and an Irish Literary Songwriter

Swae Lee

  Highlights Country tops yesterday’s Amazon Music Top 100 Songs chart Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” continues to grow into everyone’s ears    MissionGood morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Thursday April 18th 2019.   Chart Spotlight Yesterday’s Amazon Music Top Songs chart was ruled by country, as the top 100 tracks on the Alexa-driven platform featured 26 country genre tags. Pop came in 2nd place with 23 tags, and rap &amp; hip-hop came in 3rd with 16. Billie Eilish continues her chart domination with having the most tracks with a total of eight, ranging from positions #12-90. Seven of them are from her latest album, released on April 1st. As for the top 100 songs and how long they’ve spent on the chart, it’s starting to reflect a nature similar to the Spotify Top 200, in that the majority of the tracks linger on for at least 1-6 months, though not more than 6 months like the Swedish platform this week. Only 10 of the Amazon chart tracks are within a week old, with the newest entry only being 2 days old, and that’s from American singer-songwriter Khalid and his chilled out track “Talk” off his album Free Spirit, released on April 5th. Tracking back to country’s run on yesterday’s chart, leading in the #1 and #3 position is Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”, with the original version leading the remix with Billy Ray Cyrus. Amazon categorizes these tracks as country, differing from Billboard’s initial opinion of the track. Brett Young and Maren Morris are in the #13 and #14 spots, while HARDY and Brett Young (with another track this time) bring up the rear in the #99 and #100 positions.    Track Spotlight Now in the #2 spot yesterday, is a track that just won’t go away: “Sunflower” by Post Malone and Swae Lee. The dreamy, 2.5-minute track juxtaposing a strained relationship with a sunflower has over 671M spins on Spotify, with a track popularity score of 98 out of 100. It’s also the most played song off the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse original soundtrack on Spotify, the track releasing in October of last year, two months before the entire album and animated film released in December. It’s no secret that a killer track combined with a hugely popular movie is a magic formula. One only has to point to Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s “See You Again” off the Fast &amp; Furious 7 OST to remember how viral a movie track can get. With a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score, $375M worldwide gross box office, and endless of positive comments across social media, Post Malone and Swae Lee seem to have really struck gold. The soundtrack itself was reportedly curated to sound like what the film’s teen Spiderman, Miles Morales, listens to. “Sunflower” is currently on 93 Spotify editorial playlists and 38 Apple Music editorial lists, but interestingly, the track isn’t on many high profile ones. While it is on Spotify’s Global Top 50, the next most followed playlist is the personalized Mood Booster with 3.2M followers, which due to the playlist’s track randomization, the track itself might not even show up. As for Apple Music, it’s only on one Today’s Hits playlist in China and two A-List playlists in Norway and Canada, also not much of a promotional push. Not to discount the track itself, but the fact that the track is enjoying its sixth month of popularity without the support of editorial playlists suggests the importance of listeners associating a song with another piece of pop culture outside of the music industry. As Post Malone is certainly no stranger to massively successful hits, the fact that “Sunflower” is his fifth most popular music video with 500M YouTube views says that a killer track + a killer movie =  a winning combination.    Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday April 18th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signup  And article links and show notes are at a new website: podcast.chartmetric.com. Happy Thursday, see you tomorrow!   

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul> <li>Country tops yesterday’s Amazon Music Top 100 Songs chart</li> <li>Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” continues to grow into everyone’s ears</li> </ul> </li> <li> Mission<ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Thursday April 18th 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Chart Spotlight<ul> <li>Yesterday’s Amazon Music Top Songs chart was ruled by country, as the top 100 tracks on the Alexa-driven platform featured 26 country genre tags.</li> <li>Pop came in 2nd place with 23 tags, and rap &amp; hip-hop came in 3rd with 16.</li> <li>Billie Eilish continues her chart domination with having the most tracks with a total of eight, ranging from positions #12-90.</li> <li>Seven of them are from her latest album, released on April 1st.</li> <li>As for the top 100 songs and how long they’ve spent on the chart, it’s starting to reflect a nature similar to the Spotify Top 200, in that the majority of the tracks linger on for at least 1-6 months, though not more than 6 months like the Swedish platform this week.</li> <li>Only 10 of the Amazon chart tracks are within a week old, with the newest entry only being 2 days old, and that’s from American singer-songwriter Khalid and his chilled out track “Talk” off his album Free Spirit, released on April 5th.</li> <li>Tracking back to country’s run on yesterday’s chart, leading in the #1 and #3 position is Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”, with the original version leading the remix with Billy Ray Cyrus. Amazon categorizes these tracks as country, differing from Billboard’s initial opinion of the track.</li> <li>Brett Young and Maren Morris are in the #13 and #14 spots, while HARDY and Brett Young (with another track this time) bring up the rear in the #99 and #100 positions.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Track Spotlight<ul> <li>Now in the #2 spot yesterday, is a track that just won’t go away: “Sunflower” by Post Malone and Swae Lee.</li> <li>The dreamy, 2.5-minute track juxtaposing a strained relationship with a sunflower has over 671M spins on Spotify, with a track popularity score of 98 out of 100.</li> <li>It’s also the most played song off the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse original soundtrack on Spotify, the track releasing in October of last year, two months before the entire album and animated film released in December.</li> <li>It’s no secret that a killer track combined with a hugely popular movie is a magic formula. One only has to point to Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s “See You Again” off the Fast &amp; Furious 7 OST to remember how viral a movie track can get.</li> <li>With a 97% Rotten Tomatoes <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spider_man_into_the_spider_verse" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">score</a>, $375M worldwide gross box <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=animatedspider-man.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">office</a>, and endless of <a href="https://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/11/28/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-first-reactions-reviews/#3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">positive comments</a> across social media, Post Malone and Swae Lee seem to have really struck gold.</li> <li>The soundtrack itself was reportedly <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/2018/10/post-malone-swae-lee-sunflower" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">curated</a> to sound like what the film’s teen Spiderman, Miles Morales, listens to.</li> <li>“Sunflower” is currently on 93 Spotify editorial playlists and 38 Apple Music editorial lists, but interestingly, the track isn’t on many high profile ones.</li> <li>While it is on Spotify’s Global Top 50, the next most followed playlist is the personalized Mood Booster with 3.2M followers, which due to the playlist’s track randomization, the track itself might not even show up.</li> <li>As for Apple Music, it’s only on one Today’s Hits playlist in China and two A-List playlists in Norway and Canada, also not much of a promotional push.</li> <li>Not to discount the track itself, but the fact that the track is enjoying its sixth month of popularity without the support of editorial playlists suggests the importance of listeners associating a song with another piece of pop culture outside of the music industry.</li> <li>As Post Malone is certainly no stranger to massively successful hits, the fact that “Sunflower” is his fifth most popular music video with 500M YouTube views says that a killer track + a killer movie =  a winning combination.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday April 18th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">app.chartmetric.com/signup</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at a new website: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a>.</li> <li>Happy Thursday, see you tomorrow! </li> </ul> </li></ul>

2019-04-18 // Amazon Music Top 100 Songs chart, Post Malone and Swae Lee's "Sunflower"

  Highlights Greyson Chance places 10 tracks on the QQ Music Western charts last week Billie Eilish gets over 800K “pre-adds” on Apple Music, likely with American females under 25 according to Instagram Deezer’s #1 playlist “Les titres du moment” continues to dominate the platform’s playlist ecosystem    MissionGood morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Monday March 25th 2019.   Charts Texas-born, Oklahoma-bred Greyson Chance takes up 10% of the QQ Music Western charts for the week of March 14th to the 20th. QQ Music, according to TechCrunch, is one of the largest music streaming platforms in China, with a reported 800M+ monthly active user base when grouped under the Tencent Music Entertainment umbrella. The Chinese tech conglomerate leverages QQ with its social network WeChat (which has over 1B users- that’s billion with a “b”) to provide the majority of its revenue in social media advertising, live-streaming virtual gifts and premium memberships along with traditional song sales and subscription-based revenue. QQ updates a 100-song Western music chart every week with their listeners’ most-streamed tunes, and Greyson Chance got 10 tracks off his newly-released 12-track album “portraits” on the list. The AWAL-backed crooner’s top 4 Spotify cities by monthly listeners are all in Asia, specifically Singapore, Quezon City in the Philippines, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. Not the only Westerner with an Asia-conscious strategy, the #1 spot on the same week’s QQ chart went to Bulgarian-Russian singer Kristian Kostov, who is currently competing in the Chinese TV singing competition series, 我是歌手, or translated, “I Am A Singer”.     Artist Highlight in the News Music Business Worldwide reported on Thursday last week that LA-based Billie Eilish racked up 800K plus album pre-adds on the Apple Music platform, showing a strong engagement with her audience looking forward to the March 29th release date. Looking at the phenom’s Instagram follower demographics as of last month, the majority of those pre-adds are likely are coming from American females under 25. Her IG handle, @wherearetheavocados, has likely racked up over 15M followers by the time you hear this, and has earned an average of 2.4M likes and 33K comments per post. A little over 73% of those followers are female, with 64% of them under the age of 25. 3.1M of the female followers fall into the 13-17 year old age range, while 5.3M of them are in the 18-24 range. Just over a third are based in the US, with New York City and LA being the two most popular, but São Paulo pulls into the #3 spot. Some of her notable IG followers are Kendall Jenner at 107M followers and Katy Perry at 77M, and maybe they’re among Eilish’s Apple album pre-adds as well!    Playlist Round-Up  “Les titres du moment” is the most followed playlist on Deezer, with 9.8M fans following the platform’s version of Today’s Top Hits on Spotify or Today’s Hits on Apple Music. The #2 Deezer playlist is “Selección Editorial” focusing on Latin content, but it’s far behind at 6.6M fans, leaving the top playlist lots of room to enjoy its leading status. “Les titres du moment”, or literally “Titles of the Moment”, currently sports 70 tracks that are mostly frontline-focused and featuring a 37% track add-ratio in the past month. Unlike other top playlists on other platforms, this playlist regularly adds and removes tracks throughout the week, mostly from Tuesday to Saturday. Almost ¾ of its historical tracks have remained on the list for one to six months, showing that it’s willing to host its more successful records for longer periods. Currently, the #1 spot goes to electronic-tinged Belgian singer-songwriter Angéle, the #2 spot to the UK’s Sam Smith &amp; American Normani, and the #13 spot goes to Puerto Rico’s Daddy Yankee...so if you’re looking for an internationally-focused, multi-lingual top hits playlist to mix things up, look no further.    Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday March 25th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, a free account is waiting for you at chartmetric.io/signup. That’s chartmetric (no s) dot IO slash signup. Happy Monday, see you tomorrow!  

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul> <li>Greyson Chance places 10 tracks on the QQ Music Western charts last week</li> <li>Billie Eilish gets over 800K “pre-adds” on Apple Music, likely with American females under 25 according to Instagram</li> <li>Deezer’s #1 playlist “Les titres du moment” continues to dominate the platform’s playlist ecosystem</li> </ul> </li> <li> Mission<ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Monday March 25th 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Charts<ul> <li>Texas-born, Oklahoma-bred Greyson Chance takes up 10% of the QQ Music Western charts for the week of March 14th to the 20th.</li> <li>QQ Music, according to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/02/tencent-music-ipo/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TechCrunch</a>, is one of the largest music streaming platforms in China, with a reported 800M+ monthly active user base when grouped under the Tencent Music Entertainment umbrella. The Chinese tech conglomerate leverages QQ with its social network WeChat (which has over 1B users- that’s billion with a “b”) to provide the majority of its revenue in social media advertising, live-streaming virtual gifts and premium memberships along with traditional song sales and subscription-based revenue.</li> <li>QQ updates a 100-song Western music chart every week with their listeners’ most-streamed tunes, and Greyson Chance got 10 tracks off his newly-released 12-track album “portraits” on the list.</li> <li>The AWAL-backed crooner’s top 4 Spotify cities by monthly listeners are all in Asia, specifically Singapore, Quezon City in the Philippines, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur.</li> <li>Not the only Westerner with an Asia-conscious strategy, the #1 spot on the same week’s QQ chart went to Bulgarian-Russian singer Kristian Kostov, who is currently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgxz23-i3lA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">competing</a> in the Chinese TV singing competition series, 我是歌手, or translated, “I Am A Singer”. </li> </ul> </li> <li> Artist Highlight in the News<ul> <li>Music Business Worldwide <a href="https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/apple-record-breaking-billie-eilish-lp-with-800k-pre-adds-shows-future-for-albums-on-streaming/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">reported</a> on Thursday last week that LA-based Billie Eilish racked up 800K plus album pre-adds on the Apple Music platform, showing a strong engagement with her audience looking forward to the March 29th release date.</li> <li>Looking at the phenom’s Instagram follower demographics as of last month, the majority of those pre-adds are likely are coming from American females under 25.</li> <li>Her IG handle, @wherearetheavocados, has likely racked up over 15M followers by the time you hear this, and has earned an average of 2.4M likes and 33K comments per post.</li> <li>A little over 73% of those followers are female, with 64% of them under the age of 25. 3.1M of the female followers fall into the 13-17 year old age range, while 5.3M of them are in the 18-24 range.</li> <li>Just over a third are based in the US, with New York City and LA being the two most popular, but São Paulo pulls into the #3 spot.</li> <li>Some of her notable IG followers are Kendall Jenner at 107M followers and Katy Perry at 77M, and maybe they’re among Eilish’s Apple album pre-adds as well!</li> </ul> </li> <li> Playlist Round-Up <ul> <li>“Les titres du moment” is the most followed playlist on Deezer, with 9.8M fans following the platform’s version of Today’s Top Hits on Spotify or Today’s Hits on Apple Music.</li> <li>The #2 Deezer playlist is “Selección Editorial” focusing on Latin content, but it’s far behind at 6.6M fans, leaving the top playlist lots of room to enjoy its leading status.</li> <li>“Les titres du moment”, or literally “Titles of the Moment”, currently sports 70 tracks that are mostly frontline-focused and featuring a 37% track add-ratio in the past month.</li> <li>Unlike other top playlists on other platforms, this playlist regularly adds and removes tracks throughout the week, mostly from Tuesday to Saturday.</li> <li>Almost ¾ of its historical tracks have remained on the list for one to six months, showing that it’s willing to host its more successful records for longer periods.</li> <li>Currently, the #1 spot goes to electronic-tinged Belgian singer-songwriter Angéle, the #2 spot to the UK’s Sam Smith &amp; American Normani, and the #13 spot goes to Puerto Rico’s Daddy Yankee...so if you’re looking for an internationally-focused, multi-lingual top hits playlist to mix things up, look no further.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday March 25th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, a free account is waiting for you at <a href="https://chartmetric.io/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.io/signup</a>. That’s chartmetric (no s) dot IO slash signup.</li> <li>Happy Monday, see you tomorrow!</li> </ul> </li></ul>

2019-03-25 // QQ Music Western charts, Billie Eilish album pre-adds on Apple Music and Deezer's "Les titres du moment" flagship playlist

Diana Ross

  Highlights Country rules the US iTunes charts yesterday with 38 track tags Diana Ross celebrates her 75th birthday with over 102M YouTube views South Asia gets down with the leading Desi playlist, “Desi Hits” at 241K followers    MissionGood morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Tuesday March 26th 2019.   Charts Country fans love their downloads, or at least they did yesterday. On Monday for the United States storefront in the iTunes download marketplace, there were 38 tracks in the Top 200 list with the genre tag “country”. These genre tags are non-exclusive, meaning that a track can be tagged with multiple genres by Apple internally, but it makes quite the impression when the genre “pop” came in with 36 and “hip-hop/rap” at 32. The 38 country tracks are well-distributed across the 200, with the romantic ballad “Beautiful Crazy” by Luke Combs at the #13 spot. What’s interesting is despite the genre’s track influence on the iTunes chart, there are no country artists in the top 10 most frequently occuring artists. For example, Motley Crue had the most tracks on yesterday’s iTunes chart with 11, due to their Netflix biopic “The Dirt” releasing on Friday sparking nostalgia for some and curiosity for others. Or Queen continues to benefit from their five-month-old “Bohemian Rhapsody” biopic with 10 tracks still on the iTunes chart.  But fear not, the #1 iTunes track yesterday actually was country: “Shallow” by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from yet another music film, A Star Is Born….it just got coded by Apple as “soundtrack”, and is just another quirk in the music data world.    Artist Highlight in the News Happy birthday to American legend Diana Ross, who turns 75 years young today! Yesterday, Rolling Stone published news of her live concert film “Diana Ross: Her Life, Love and Legacy” releasing for only two days today and Thursday, showcasing her epic 1983 NYC Central Park show. Ross has healthy numbers in the streaming world, with a 68 Spotify Popularity Index rating, 792K followers and a steadily growing monthly listeners count at 4.2M, growing from 2.9M only a year ago. The ex-Supremes member is still rocking her Instagram account at 319K followers, posting lots of throwback footage and glamorous shots of own career, and mostly to fans her junior: over 126K IG followers are 18-24 and 97K are 25-34. Though Ms. Ross only sports 6K subscribers on YouTube, her long career of epic music has earned over 102M YouTube views, which, given her low amount of subscribers, shows how much active search and recommended video algorithms keep her music alive. Happy birthday, Miss Ross.    Playlist Round-Up  With Spotify’s recent launch in India about one month ago, attention is likely turning to the playlist “Desi Hits”, which is Spotify’s leading South Asian playlist at 241K followers. Growing followers at 6% over the past month, and changing about a quarter of its tracks every month, “Desi Hits” is the closest thing the platform has to the region’s version of “Today’s Top Hits”, which is at 22M followers. While “Desi Hits” obviously has some ground to make up for, keep in mind that India alone is home to over 374M smartphone users, and 1.3B people overall. For comparison, the US market has 251M out of 326M. Or better put, a market penetration rate of only 27% compared to the US’ 77%, showing lots of potential for growth in India. The playlist “Desi Hits” is dominated by the giant music and film company T-Series, with 35 of its tracks in the 86-track list coming underneath its banner. You may have heard of the company through its on-going YouTube subscriber battle with YouTuber PewDiePie, as T-Series is now within only 4K subscribers at 91,317,xxx subs. “Desi Hits” has virtually all of its tracks in the upper half of the Echo Nest Energy chart, promising lots of danceable beats coming from a set of artists who are 52% from India, but 20% from the UK due to the Indian diaspora. Whether looking for bhangra beats or Bollywood mega hits, “Desi Hits” likely has a lot of followers coming its way.    Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Tuesday March 26th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, a free account is waiting for you at chartmetric.io/signup. That’s chartmetric (no s) dot IO slash signup. Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow!    

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul> <li>Country rules the US iTunes charts yesterday with 38 track tags</li> <li>Diana Ross celebrates her 75th birthday with over 102M YouTube views</li> <li>South Asia gets down with the leading Desi playlist, “Desi Hits” at 241K followers</li> </ul> </li> <li> Mission<ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Tuesday March 26th 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Charts<ul> <li>Country fans love their downloads, or at least they did yesterday.</li> <li>On Monday for the United States storefront in the iTunes download marketplace, there were 38 tracks in the Top 200 list with the genre tag “country”.</li> <li>These genre tags are non-exclusive, meaning that a track can be tagged with multiple genres by Apple internally, but it makes quite the impression when the genre “pop” came in with 36 and “hip-hop/rap” at 32.</li> <li>The 38 country tracks are well-distributed across the 200, with the romantic ballad “Beautiful Crazy” by Luke Combs at the #13 spot.</li> <li>What’s interesting is despite the genre’s track influence on the iTunes chart, there are no country artists in the top 10 most frequently occuring artists. For example, Motley Crue had the most tracks on yesterday’s iTunes chart with 11, due to their Netflix biopic “The Dirt” releasing on Friday sparking nostalgia for some and curiosity for others.</li> <li>Or Queen continues to benefit from their five-month-old “Bohemian Rhapsody” biopic with 10 tracks still on the iTunes chart. </li> <li>But fear not, the #1 iTunes track yesterday actually was country: “Shallow” by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from yet another music film, A Star Is Born….it just got coded by Apple as “soundtrack”, and is just another quirk in the music data world.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Artist Highlight in the News<ul> <li>Happy birthday to American legend Diana Ross, who turns 75 years young today!</li> <li>Yesterday, Rolling Stone <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/diana-ross-im-coming-out-central-park-812432/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">published</a> news of her live concert film “Diana Ross: Her Life, Love and Legacy” releasing for only two days today and Thursday, showcasing her epic 1983 NYC Central Park show.</li> <li>Ross has healthy numbers in the streaming world, with a 68 Spotify Popularity Index rating, 792K followers and a steadily growing monthly listeners count at 4.2M, growing from 2.9M only a year ago.</li> <li>The ex-Supremes member is still rocking her Instagram account at 319K followers, posting lots of throwback footage and glamorous shots of own career, and mostly to fans her junior: over 126K IG followers are 18-24 and 97K are 25-34.</li> <li>Though Ms. Ross only sports 6K subscribers on YouTube, her long career of epic music has earned over 102M YouTube views, which, given her low amount of subscribers, shows how much active search and recommended video algorithms keep her music alive. Happy birthday, Miss Ross.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Playlist Round-Up <ul> <li>With Spotify’s recent launch in India about one month ago, attention is likely turning to the playlist “Desi Hits”, which is Spotify’s leading South Asian playlist at 241K followers.</li> <li>Growing followers at 6% over the past month, and changing about a quarter of its tracks every month, “Desi Hits” is the closest thing the platform has to the region’s version of “Today’s Top Hits”, which is at 22M followers.</li> <li>While “Desi Hits” obviously has some ground to make up for, keep in mind that India alone is home to over 374M smartphone users, and 1.3B people overall. For <a href="https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-50-countries-by-smartphone-penetration-and-users/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">comparison</a>, the US market has 251M out of 326M. Or better put, a market penetration rate of only 27% compared to the US’ 77%, showing lots of potential for growth in India.</li> <li>The playlist “Desi Hits” is dominated by the giant music and film company T-Series, with 35 of its tracks in the 86-track list coming underneath its banner. You may have heard of the company through its on-going YouTube subscriber battle with YouTuber PewDiePie, as T-Series is now within only 4K subscribers at 91,317,xxx subs.</li> <li>“Desi Hits” has virtually all of its tracks in the upper half of the Echo Nest Energy chart, promising lots of danceable beats coming from a set of artists who are 52% from India, but 20% from the UK due to the Indian diaspora.</li> <li>Whether looking for bhangra beats or Bollywood mega hits, “Desi Hits” likely has a lot of followers coming its way.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Tuesday March 26th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, a free account is waiting for you at <a href="https://chartmetric.io/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.io/signup</a>. That’s chartmetric (no s) dot IO slash signup.</li> <li>Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow!  </li> </ul> </li></ul>

2019-03-26 // iTunes chart in the US, Diana Ross on YouTube and Spotify's "Desi Hits" for South Asia

  Highlights Spotify’s Viral 50 chart highlights music from around the world Russian trap duo Rauf &amp; Faik take off in the Caucasus region    MissionGood morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Tuesday April 9th 2019.   Chart Highlight  On Friday April 5th, the Spotify Viral 50 highlighted the global nature of streaming by featuring a Philadelphia-born Puerto Rican artist remix, an Indonesian R&amp;B collaboration, and a Russian hip-hop duo all in the top 10. The #1 spot is occupied by Philadelphia-born, Puerto Rico-raised artist Dalex along with six collaborators in the vibey rap track “Pa Mí - Remix”. The original track was 3:30 long, but the new version is a full 6:00, making room for other Latin artists such as Argentina’s Cazzu and Panama’s Sech. It’s released by the indie label Rich Music, who signed a distribution deal with Warner Music Latina back in 2017, and the remix itself was released on Feb 6th, spending 33 days so far on the Viral 50. The #2 track is slightly newer, released on Feb 21st, and that’s the Indonesian R&amp;B collaboration “Adu Rayu” by Yovie Widianto, Tulus and Glenn Fredly. Google translated as “Flirtation”, the easy-listening ballad is also featured on Top Hits Indonesia at 682K followers and on Apple Music’s The A-List: Indonesian Music. The #10 track in last Friday’s Viral 50 is Russian hip-hop duo Rauf &amp; Faik with the track “Детство” (dee-YEHTS-vha), or “Childhood”. It’s currently at its peak position on the chart, still fresh-faced at only 3 days there, even though it was released half a year ago in Sept 2018. The dark, melodic trap song is part of Friday’s genre tag trend, as the tag “trap music” showed up the most at 15 times with “pop rap” showing up 10 times. Interestingly, the Viral 50 chart brings in the old and makes them new: 96% of the chart’s tracks are older than one month yet none of them have been on there for more than two, showing a tendency to take what’s already been released and giving them new life.    Artist Highlight in the News The occupants of the #10 spot, Russian trap duo Rauf &amp; Faik, are performing well stream-wise with 804K Spotify monthly listeners and 30K followers for a listener to follower ratio of 26, putting them in the realm of Dutch DJ/producer Sam Feldt at 26.2 and Grammy-nominated American artist Tierra Whack at 26.1. Rauf &amp; Faik seem to be making lots of waves in Turkey as they are currently featured in the #1 position on the 50-track Hot Hits Türkiye playlist at 354K followers and the Turkey Top 50 with 523K follows in the #7 position. On Apple Music, they are on four different Daily Top 100 charts in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan, the last of which is their country of origin, though according to our Instagram data, they are currently based in Moscow. Their 463K IG followers skew very young and female, with nearly 40% of their followers falling in the 13-17 female demographic. With 3/4 of their IG fanbase from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine alone and 80% of them speaking primarily Russian, the hopes of an overseas crossover seems unlikely. But since their dark, spacious trap vibes are undoubtedly taking a page out of Post Malone’s sonic playbook, you just never know.    Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Tuesday April 9th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Feel free to sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signup  And article links and show notes are at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes. Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow.   

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul> <li>Spotify’s Viral 50 chart highlights music from around the world</li> <li>Russian trap duo Rauf &amp; Faik take off in the Caucasus region</li> </ul> </li> <li> Mission<ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Tuesday April 9th 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Chart Highlight <ul> <li>On Friday April 5th, the Spotify Viral 50 highlighted the global nature of streaming by featuring a Philadelphia-born Puerto Rican artist remix, an Indonesian R&amp;B collaboration, and a Russian hip-hop duo all in the top 10.</li> <li>The #1 spot is occupied by Philadelphia-born, Puerto Rico-raised artist Dalex along with six collaborators in the vibey rap track “Pa Mí - Remix”.</li> <li>The original track was 3:30 long, but the new version is a full 6:00, making room for other Latin artists such as Argentina’s Cazzu and Panama’s Sech.</li> <li>It’s released by the indie label Rich Music, who signed a distribution <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7701319/rich-music-justin-quiles-warner-music-latina-record-deal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">deal</a> with Warner Music Latina back in 2017, and the remix itself was released on Feb 6th, spending 33 days so far on the Viral 50.</li> <li>The #2 track is slightly newer, released on Feb 21st, and that’s the Indonesian R&amp;B collaboration “Adu Rayu” by Yovie Widianto, Tulus and Glenn Fredly.</li> <li>Google translated as “Flirtation”, the easy-listening ballad is also featured on Top Hits Indonesia at 682K followers and on Apple Music’s The A-List: Indonesian Music.</li> <li>The #10 track in last Friday’s Viral 50 is Russian hip-hop duo Rauf &amp; Faik with the track “Детство” (dee-YEHTS-vha), or “Childhood”.</li> <li>It’s currently at its peak position on the chart, still fresh-faced at only 3 days there, even though it was released half a year ago in Sept 2018.</li> <li>The dark, melodic trap song is part of Friday’s genre tag trend, as the tag “trap music” showed up the most at 15 times with “pop rap” showing up 10 times.</li> <li>Interestingly, the Viral 50 chart brings in the old and makes them new: 96% of the chart’s tracks are older than one month yet none of them have been on there for more than two, showing a tendency to take what’s already been released and giving them new life.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Artist Highlight in the News<ul> <li>The occupants of the #10 spot, Russian trap duo Rauf &amp; Faik, are performing well stream-wise with 804K Spotify monthly listeners and 30K followers for a listener to follower ratio of 26, putting them in the realm of Dutch DJ/producer Sam Feldt at 26.2 and Grammy-nominated American artist Tierra Whack at 26.1.</li> <li>Rauf &amp; Faik seem to be making lots of waves in Turkey as they are currently featured in the #1 position on the 50-track Hot Hits Türkiye playlist at 354K followers and the Turkey Top 50 with 523K follows in the #7 position.</li> <li>On Apple Music, they are on four different Daily Top 100 charts in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan, the last of which is their country of <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=ru&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-flow.ru%2Freleases%2Frauf-faik-pain-memories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">origin</a>, though according to our Instagram data, they are currently based in Moscow.</li> <li>Their 463K IG followers skew very young and female, with nearly 40% of their followers falling in the 13-17 female demographic.</li> <li>With 3/4 of their IG fanbase from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine alone and 80% of them speaking primarily Russian, the hopes of an overseas crossover seems unlikely.</li> <li>But since their dark, spacious trap vibes are undoubtedly taking a page out of Post Malone’s sonic playbook, you just never know.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Tuesday April 9th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Feel free to sign up for a free account at <a href="https://chartmetric.io/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.io/signup</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes</a>.</li> <li>Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow. </li> </ul> </li></ul>

2019-04-09 // Spotify's Viral 50 chart and Russian trap duo Rauf & Faik

Julien Baker

  Highlights We’re on the road! We’re at A2IM’s Indie Week in New York City and so we’ll publish our music data-related thoughts and experiences for you starting in tomorrow’s episode in case you can’t make it. But for today, we’ll celebrate the indie community on Amazon Music with an indie-focused New Music Friday Monday!    Mission   Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Monday, June 17, 2019.   New Music Friday Monday: Fresh Indie on Amazon Hopping over to the “Fresh Indie” playlist on Amazon Music, we’ve got no less than 60 tracks of the most brand spanking new independent music in the streaming world. The tracks all come from over 35 different indie labels to include 4AD, ATO Records and XL recordings. Over 64% of the artists featured are from the US, 16% from the UK, and then Canada/Norway/Australia/New Zealand making up the rest of the Anglo-focused playlist. Just under half of the list has either the indiepop, folk-pop or indietronica genre tag attached to it, with 15+ other genre tags thrown in to make for a diverse-sounding set. In the #4 position is the funk-addled “Mary Always” instrumental track by Houston-born band Khruangbin, mixing soul, dub, psychedelia, and Thai funk. The track is currently on nine Spotify editorial playlists including All New Indie w/ 958K followers and 2 Apple editorial playlists including Today’s Indie Rock. The great playlist promotion is coming out of Bloomington, Indiana, where the track’s Dead Oceans label is housed with the Secretly Group, an umbrella of indie labels putting out rock music of different flavors.   In the #9 spot is the spacious, introspective track “Conversation Piece” by Memphis, Tennessee’s Julien Baker. Currently on no Spotify editorial playlists and 1 Apple editorial playlist, the Late Night Menu, the Matador Records release is the latest from the singer-songwriter known for heart-wrenching lyricism and melody. What’s uber cool about Baker is that she is also part of supergroup boygenius, also under Matador, with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, kind of following the K-pop model of supergroup splitting off into solo careers, but just the reverse, as boygenius formed in 2018 and each member had solo careers as early as 2014.    Last but not least is “Flood Hands” by Vagabon, coming from Nonesuch Records. Vagabon is in the #12 slot on the Amazon playlist, currently on 3 Spotify editorial playlists, also including All New Indie with Khruangbin and 2 Apple editorial playlists, also including Today’s Indie Rock. Released on June 13, it’s the latest from the Cameroon-born multi-instrumentalist now based in NYC...where we are this week for A2IM’s Indie Week!      Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday, June 17, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Free accounts are at chartmetric.com  And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com  Happy Monday, we’ll see you tomorrow from NYC’s Indie Week floor! Bye.  

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul> <li>We’re on the road! We’re at A2IM’s Indie Week in New York City and so we’ll publish our music data-related thoughts and experiences for you starting in tomorrow’s episode in case you can’t make it.</li> <li>But for today, we’ll celebrate the indie community on Amazon Music with an indie-focused New Music Friday Monday!</li> </ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Monday, June 17, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> New Music Friday Monday: Fresh Indie on Amazon<ul> <li>Hopping over to the “Fresh Indie” playlist on Amazon Music, we’ve got no less than 60 tracks of the most brand spanking new independent music in the streaming world.</li> <li>The tracks all come from over 35 different indie labels to include 4AD, ATO Records and XL recordings.</li> <li>Over 64% of the artists featured are from the US, 16% from the UK, and then Canada/Norway/Australia/New Zealand making up the rest of the Anglo-focused playlist.</li> <li>Just under half of the list has either the indiepop, folk-pop or indietronica genre tag attached to it, with 15+ other genre tags thrown in to make for a diverse-sounding set.</li> <li>In the #4 position is the funk-addled “Mary Always” instrumental track by Houston-born band Khruangbin, mixing soul, dub, psychedelia, and Thai funk.<ul> <li>The track is currently on nine Spotify editorial playlists including All New Indie w/ 958K followers and 2 Apple editorial playlists including Today’s Indie Rock.</li> <li>The great playlist promotion is coming out of Bloomington, Indiana, where the track’s Dead Oceans label is housed with the Secretly Group, an umbrella of indie labels putting out rock music of different flavors.</li> </ul> </li> <li>In the #9 spot is the spacious, introspective track “Conversation Piece” by Memphis, Tennessee’s Julien Baker.<ul> <li>Currently on no Spotify editorial playlists and 1 Apple editorial playlist, the Late Night Menu, the Matador Records release is the latest from the singer-songwriter known for heart-wrenching lyricism and melody.</li> <li>What’s uber cool about Baker is that she is also part of supergroup boygenius, also under Matador, with Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, kind of following the K-pop model of supergroup splitting off into solo careers, but just the reverse, as boygenius formed in 2018 and each member had solo careers as early as 2014. </li> </ul> </li> <li>Last but not least is “Flood Hands” by Vagabon, coming from Nonesuch Records.<ul> <li>Vagabon is in the #12 slot on the Amazon playlist, currently on 3 Spotify editorial playlists, also including All New Indie with Khruangbin and 2 Apple editorial playlists, also including Today’s Indie Rock.</li> <li>Released on June 13, it’s the latest from the Cameroon-born multi-instrumentalist now based in NYC...where we are this week for A2IM’s Indie Week!</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday, June 17, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>Happy Monday, we’ll see you tomorrow from NYC’s Indie Week floor! Bye.</li> </ul> </li></ul>

New Music Friday Monday: Fresh Indie on Amazon (Khruangbin, Julien Baker, Vagabon)

Josh Hayes

  Highlights Special interview episode today: Does data science scare you? Does it keep you up at night when you hear or read about it at a panel or on some podcast, and you think to yourself, “I have no idea what they are talking about.” Rest easy and let Chartmetric’s Resident Data Scientist assuage your fears. How do you measure artist success across multiple streaming, social and other Internets platforms? We might have something for you.    Mission   Good morning, it’s Jason and Josh here at Chartmetric usually with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Wednesday, June 12th, 2019.   Interview Outline What is Cross-Platform Performance scoring and ranking on Chartmetric?Josh’s blog article / CPP explanation  CPP measurements Stage: This is the amount of “reach” or “exposure” that an artist has over audiences. The bigger the stage, the more people actively listening, watching, or consuming what the artist is creating. Followers: This is the size of an artist’s “fanbase” or an artist’s “stickiness” with audiences. Followers have opted into tracking an artist and therefore are more likely to re-engage with the artist’s products in the future. Followers are not actively engaging with an artist all the time, but artists have an easier job of connecting with followers than non-followers.   Cool CPP video to visualize the data science (made by Graphic &amp; Motion Design Artist Anastasiya Bulavkina) Philosophical debate: what is “best” nowadays? Is there a way for people to reach out to you on the Interwebs, Josh? Josh’s LinkedIn profile  hi (at) chartmetric (dot) com      Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, June 12th, 2019. This is Josh and Jason from Chartmetric. Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signup  And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com  Happy Wednesday, see you tomorrow!  

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul> <li>Special interview episode today: Does data science scare you? Does it keep you up at night when you hear or read about it at a panel or on some podcast, and you think to yourself, “I have no idea what they are talking about.”</li> <li>Rest easy and let Chartmetric’s Resident Data Scientist assuage your fears.</li> <li>How do you measure artist success across multiple streaming, social and other Internets platforms? We might have something for you.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason and Josh here at Chartmetric usually with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Wednesday, June 12th, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Interview Outline<ul> <li>What is Cross-Platform Performance scoring and ranking on Chartmetric?<ul><li>Josh’s <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.io/chartmetric-originals-cross-platform-performance-cpp-scores-and-ranks-38df7d3a8566" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog article</a> / CPP explanation</li></ul> </li> <li>CPP measurements<ul> <li>Stage: This is the amount of “reach” or “exposure” that an artist has over audiences. The bigger the stage, the more people actively listening, watching, or consuming what the artist is creating.</li> <li>Followers: This is the size of an artist’s “fanbase” or an artist’s “stickiness” with audiences. Followers have opted into tracking an artist and therefore are more likely to re-engage with the artist’s products in the future. Followers are not actively engaging with an artist all the time, but artists have an easier job of connecting with followers than non-followers.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Cool <a href="https://vimeo.com/340303978" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CPP video</a> to visualize the data science (made by Graphic &amp; Motion Design Artist <a href="https://staije.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anastasiya Bulavkina</a>)</li> <li>Philosophical debate: what is “best” nowadays?</li> <li>Is there a way for people to reach out to you on the Interwebs, Josh?<ul> <li>Josh’s <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-hayes-6270342/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn profile</a> </li> <li>hi (at) chartmetric (dot) com</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, June 12th, 2019. This is Josh and Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">app.chartmetric.com/signup</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>Happy Wednesday, see you tomorrow!</li> </ul> </li></ul>

Measuring Artist Success Across Platforms? Let Data Scientist Josh Hayes Light the Way

  HighlightsFollowing a panel including Beggars Group’s Martin Mills and Kill Rock Star’s Portia Sabin, we’re looking at artists on their rosters and asking, “What makes them two of indie music’s longest lasting labels?”     Mission    Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, June 21, 2019.   A2IM Indie Week, Day 4 Several Indie icons closed out A2IM’s Indie Week in New York City yesterday, two of them being the legendary Martin Mills and Dr. Portia Sabin sharing what’s helped them make Beggars Group and Kill Rock Stars, respectively, some of indie music’s longest lasting labels.  Beggars Group is the parent company of 4AD, Rough Trade Records, Matador, XL Recordings and Young Turks. Mills started it in London in 1977, and his many labels have gone on to sign everyone from Adele to Radiohead. While Adele hasn’t released anything for some time, her 25 album, which released physically in November 2015 and digitally in June 2016 via a joint deal between XL Recordings and Sony’s Columbia, “single-handedly revived global album sales”, according to the Guardian. The album’s streaming success is no joke either, as it’s maintained a 70-80 Spotify Popularity Index score over the last three years, and has been included on upwards of 12.5K Spotify playlists. That kind of success under XL’s guidance gave Adele the leverage to be able to sign an enormous and unprecedented £90 million deal with Sony in May 2016. No doubt the industry will be keen to check her next album from one of the industry’s biggest major labels. Now entering the underground, since 2006, Sabin has run Pacific Northwest-based indie label Kill Rock Stars, which has been a home to riot grrrl legends Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney, the late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, and folk rockers the Decemberists. Sabin’s roster is more niche than Mills’, but Kill Rock Stars’ ability to navigate catalog digitization and promotion has allowed their artists to prosper. Smith, for instance, maintains some 1.4M monthly listeners on Spotify, despite the fact that he passed away tragically in 2003.  In March 2017, Kill Rock Stars released an expanded edition of his 1997 album Either/Or, which helped increase Smith’s Spotify followers by around 70 percent to 430K and spiked his monthly listenership by an estimated 250K.  Whether by keen artist development or catalog revitalization, Beggars Group and Kill Rock Stars have each found a way to not only survive longer than most indie labels, but to also thrive while doing so.    Outro That’s it for Indie Week and your Daily Data Dump for Friday, June 21, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Free accounts are at chartmetric.com  And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com  Happy Friday, and have a great weekend!  

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul><li>Following a panel including Beggars Group’s Martin Mills and Kill Rock Star’s Portia Sabin, we’re looking at artists on their rosters and asking, “What makes them two of indie music’s longest lasting labels?”  </li></ul> </li> <li> Mission    <ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Friday, June 21, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> A2IM Indie Week, Day 4<ul> <li>Several Indie icons closed out A2IM’s Indie Week in New York City yesterday, two of them being the legendary Martin Mills and Dr. Portia Sabin sharing what’s helped them make Beggars Group and Kill Rock Stars, respectively, some of indie music’s longest lasting labels. </li> <li>Beggars Group is the parent company of 4AD, Rough Trade Records, Matador, XL Recordings and Young Turks.</li> <li>Mills started it in London in 1977, and his many labels have gone on to sign everyone from Adele to Radiohead.</li> <li>While Adele hasn’t released anything for some time, her 25 album, which released physically in November 2015 and digitally in June 2016 via a joint deal between XL Recordings and Sony’s Columbia, “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/23/adele-set-to-sign-90m-sony-deal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">single-handedly revived global album sales”, according to the Guardian</a>.</li> <li>The album’s streaming success is no joke either, as it’s maintained a 70-80 Spotify Popularity Index score over the last three years, and has been included on upwards of 12.5K Spotify playlists.</li> <li>That kind of success under XL’s guidance gave Adele the leverage to be able to sign an enormous and unprecedented <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/23/adele-set-to-sign-90m-sony-deal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">£90 million deal with Sony</a> in May 2016.</li> <li>No doubt the industry will be keen to check her next album from one of the industry’s biggest major labels.</li> <li>Now entering the underground, since 2006, Sabin has run Pacific Northwest-based indie label Kill Rock Stars, which has been a home to riot grrrl legends Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney, the late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, and folk rockers the Decemberists.</li> <li>Sabin’s roster is more niche than Mills’, but Kill Rock Stars’ ability to navigate catalog digitization and promotion has allowed their artists to prosper.</li> <li>Smith, for instance, maintains some 1.4M monthly listeners on Spotify, despite the fact that he passed away tragically in 2003. </li> <li>In March 2017, Kill Rock Stars released an expanded edition of his 1997 album Either/Or, which helped increase Smith’s Spotify followers by around 70 percent to 430K and spiked his monthly listenership by an estimated 250K. </li> <li>Whether by keen artist development or catalog revitalization, Beggars Group and Kill Rock Stars have each found a way to not only survive longer than most indie labels, but to also thrive while doing so.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for Indie Week and your Daily Data Dump for Friday, June 21, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>Happy Friday, and have a great weekend!</li> </ul> </li></ul>

A2IM Indie Week, Day 4: Beggars Group and Kill Rock Stars

  HighlightsIf you don’t eat chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side yet, then at least check out how a member of K-pop supergroup BTS tapped a 2006 Harlem dance craze to make a splash today...you might reconsider your lunch plans.   Mission    Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world. We’re on the socials at “chartmetric” — that’s Chartmetric, one word and no “S.”  Check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!    DateThis is your Data Dump for Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019.   Chicken Noodle Soup With j-hope and Becky G If you’re not a BTS Army superfan, then you didn’t know that they’re currently taking a break from their full-on conquest for the US market, which has been going on since at least late 2017. You can read about that in our blog, link in the show notes. And if you didn’t grow up in the mid-2000s, especially in New York City or the East Coast, you might not know about Webstar, Young B or AG, the artists behind a fun dance to their mid-2000s hit “Chicken Noodle Soup”. But what might be interesting to you now, is how even during BTS’ two-month hiatus...they’re still really working the US market, just through one of the members as a solo act, j-hope. J-hope is known for his dance skills among the BTS fanbase, and in the last week of September, he dropped a remake of the Harlem party anthem “Chicken Noodle Soup”, rapping verses in Korean and singing the catchy chorus in English. The track has likely amassed over 70M YouTube views as of today with over 5.4M likes and 550K comments...this is all within 1.5 weeks. J-hope experienced a 6x increase in Spotify daily followers to over 18K and doubled his Spotify monthly listener count to over 2M. While certainly the star of the remake track, he also enlisted the help of Latin American pop star Becky G, who has a Spotify Popularity Index (or SPI) of 84 She also 84th in her ranking in the Chartmetric system. J-hope’s SPI is lower at 69, while his Chartmetric ranking was 947th yesterday, so it’s clear that at least on Spotify, Becky G’s higher profile should be helping expose the BTS member’s solo career to more people in the States and the Latin community alike. However, likely a measure of how curious BTS fans were of this collaborator, Becky G experienced her biggest jump in the past year in daily Wikipedia views by almost 10x to 29K. Regarding overall popularity, BTS themselves are just ahead of her in terms of their own Chartmetric ranking at 82nd place, with an SPI of 90. It’s hard to say who’s helping the other out more: j-hope picked an undeniably American dance classic to stoke stateside nostalgia and to pour more gas on the fire, featured one of Latin music’s top stars to gain more global market share. But Becky G is certainly enjoying her own new fans from j-hope’s part of the world: BTS’ stronghold on several platforms is still major cities in East and Southeast Asia, and as for fandom, the BTS camp is world-class. As for the original artists, Webstar and Young B? They’ve experienced their own upticks...for example, Young B is now known as Bianca Bonnie, and she experienced a 100x increase in daily Twitter followers to over 5K upon the remake’s release. Better yet? Their soda on the side will come in the form of tasty, tasty publishing royalties, thanks to a couple of Korean and Latin pop stars.   Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com  And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com  If you haven’t downloaded our semi-annual global industry report 6MO yet, you can find it all across our socials and in our show notes! Happy Wednesday, we’ll see you Friday! 

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul><li>If you don’t eat chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side yet, then at least check out how a member of K-pop supergroup BTS tapped a 2006 Harlem dance craze to make a splash today...you might reconsider your lunch plans.</li></ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul> <li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li> <li>We’re on the socials at “chartmetric” — that’s Chartmetric, one word and no “S.” </li> <li>Check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!</li> </ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Chicken Noodle Soup With j-hope and Becky G<ul> <li>If you’re not a BTS Army superfan, then you didn’t know that they’re currently <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49315487" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">taking a break</a> from their full-on conquest for the US market, which has been going on since at least late 2017. You can <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.io/k-pop-2-0-how-bts-becomes-americas-hottest-boy-band-c548671d1a67" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">read about that in our blog</a>, link in the show notes.</li> <li>And if you didn’t grow up in the mid-2000s, especially in New York City or the East Coast, you might not know about Webstar, Young B or AG, the artists behind a fun dance to their mid-2000s hit “Chicken Noodle Soup”.</li> <li>But what might be interesting to you now, is how even during BTS’ two-month hiatus...they’re still really working the US market, just through one of the members as a solo act, j-hope.</li> <li>J-hope is known for his dance skills among the BTS fanbase, and in the last week of September, <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8532371/bianca-bonnie-chicken-noodle-soup-interview-bts-j-hope-becky-g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">he dropped a remake</a> of the Harlem party anthem “Chicken Noodle Soup”, rapping verses in Korean and singing the catchy chorus in English.</li> <li>The track has likely amassed over 70M YouTube views as of today with over 5.4M likes and 550K comments...this is all within 1.5 weeks.</li> <li>J-hope experienced a 6x increase in Spotify daily followers to over 18K and doubled his Spotify monthly listener count to over 2M.</li> <li>While certainly the star of the remake track, he also enlisted the help of Latin American pop star Becky G, who has a Spotify Popularity Index (or SPI) of 84 She also 84th in her ranking in the Chartmetric system.</li> <li>J-hope’s SPI is lower at 69, while his Chartmetric ranking was 947th yesterday, so it’s clear that at least on Spotify, Becky G’s higher profile should be helping expose the BTS member’s solo career to more people in the States and the Latin community alike.</li> <li>However, likely a measure of how curious BTS fans were of this collaborator, Becky G experienced her biggest jump in the past year in daily Wikipedia views by almost 10x to 29K.</li> <li>Regarding overall popularity, BTS themselves are just ahead of her in terms of their own Chartmetric ranking at 82nd place, with an SPI of 90.</li> <li>It’s hard to say who’s helping the other out more: j-hope picked an undeniably American dance classic to stoke stateside nostalgia and to pour more gas on the fire, featured one of Latin music’s top stars to gain more global market share.</li> <li>But Becky G is certainly enjoying her own new fans from j-hope’s part of the world: BTS’ stronghold on several platforms is still major cities in East and Southeast Asia, and as for fandom, the BTS camp is world-class.</li> <li>As for the original artists, Webstar and Young B? They’ve experienced their own upticks...for example, Young B is now known as Bianca Bonnie, and she experienced a 100x increase in daily Twitter followers to over 5K upon the remake’s release.</li> <li>Better yet? Their soda on the side will come in the form of tasty, tasty publishing <a href="https://okmagazine.com/photos/j-hope-bts-cultural-appropriation-cns-becky-g-video/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">royalties</a>, thanks to a couple of Korean and Latin pop stars.</li> </ul> </li> </ul>Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are available at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>If you haven’t downloaded our semi-annual global industry report 6MO yet, <a href="https://smarturl.it/6MO_H1_2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">you can find it all across our socials and in our show notes</a>!</li> <li>Happy Wednesday, we’ll see you Friday! </li></ul>

Eating "Chicken Noodle Soup" with j-hope and Becky G

  Highlights  TikTok is the new game, but it’s already the 2nd quarter. Let’s dive into one of our newest features, TikTok Top Track and Trending Videos charts.   Mission    Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world. We’re on the socials at “chartmetric”, that’s Chartmetric, no “S ”- follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.    DateThis is your Data Dump for Thursday, August 15th, 2019.    TikTok Top Tracks and Trending Videos If you are involved in music marketing at all, or you have a Gen Z-er in your life, you know about TikTok. Owned by Beijing-based Internet company ByteDance, TikTok is arguably the newest place to be when it comes to music discovery, and it’s hard not to be when you take over the giant lip-sync app that was Musical.ly. Earlier this year, ByteDance hit over 1B downloads across their suite of apps, 100M of them in the US and 250M of them in India, according to CNN. Some of its biggest stars are just regular people: teens dancing, moms decorating cookies, people playing practical jokes on each other….but it’s all frequently set to music. So who’s winning that never-ending game for eyes and ears on TikTok? As of yesterday, the top track used was none other than Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’s “Old Town Road (remix)”, with 9.3M videos using the now record-breaking track. One thing to note about TikTok as a music platform is that-at least in its current state-it’s not the neatest from a metadata perspective. It’s more about the users’ creativity. As users are free to record and upload video and audio like YouTube, songs can be uploaded with no identifying song name or artist to keep track. Or in Lil Nas X’s case, duplicates. There were two original track copies of “Old Town Road” in the 28th and 34th positions on the top tracks chart yesterday, with 2.3 and 2M videos respectively. So if you include remixes, the track is definitely the top one on the Chinese platform with over 13.6M TikTok videos with the yeehaw anthem. And while there is a Trending Video chart, where Mariah Carey’s 2009 track “Obsessed” is currently the soundtrack for the #1 and #2 videos, you don’t have to go to the trending chart to find non-Top 40 tracks. For example, Why Mona’s 2017 moody electronic cover of the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” took the #2 spot yesterday with 9.2M videos, due to its viral dance that many users uploaded the song with. In 4th place with 7.6M videos is Sean Kingston’s 2007 track “Beautiful Girls”, where lots of TikTok-ers are do a cute hand dance or some Fortnite moves. Or in 135th place with 791K videos is none other than ABBA, with their 1986 track “Gimme! Gimme! Gimmie!”, because it has a nice “reveal” type of drop into its chorus. Users like to provide some kind of visual surprise or fun moment when it hits. So if you’ve got a catalog track ripe for memes, let her rip, because the world awaits its next hashtag!   Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday, August 15th, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Our new TikTok Top Tracks and Trending Video charts are now live, check them out with a free account at chartmetric.com  Article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com  Happy Thursday, we’ll see you tomorrow!

<ul> <li> Highlights  <ul><li>TikTok is the new game, but it’s already the 2nd quarter. Let’s dive into one of our newest features, TikTok Top Track and Trending Videos charts.</li></ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul> <li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li> <li>We’re on the socials at “chartmetric”, that’s Chartmetric, no “S ”- follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Thursday, August 15th, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li>  TikTok Top Tracks and Trending Videos<ul> <li>If you are involved in music marketing at all, or you have a Gen Z-er in your life, you know about TikTok.</li> <li>Owned by Beijing-based Internet company ByteDance, TikTok is arguably the newest place to be when it comes to music discovery, and it’s hard not to be when you take over the giant lip-sync app that was <a href="http://Musical.ly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Musical.ly</a>.</li> <li>Earlier this year, ByteDance hit over 1B downloads across their suite of apps, 100M of them in the US and 250M of them in India, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/tech/tiktok-bytedance-users/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CNN</a>.</li> <li>Some of its biggest stars are just regular people: teens dancing, moms decorating cookies, people playing practical jokes on each other….but it’s all frequently set to music.</li> <li>So who’s winning that never-ending game for eyes and ears on TikTok?</li> <li>As of yesterday, the top track used was none other than Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’s “Old Town Road (remix)”, with 9.3M videos using the now record-breaking track.</li> <li>One thing to note about TikTok as a music platform is that-at least in its current state-it’s not the neatest from a metadata perspective. It’s more about the users’ creativity.</li> <li>As users are free to record and upload video and audio like YouTube, songs can be uploaded with no identifying song name or artist to keep track.</li> <li>Or in Lil Nas X’s case, duplicates. There were two original track copies of “Old Town Road” in the 28th and 34th positions on the top tracks chart yesterday, with 2.3 and 2M videos respectively. So if you include remixes, the track is definitely the top one on the Chinese platform with over 13.6M TikTok videos with the yeehaw anthem.</li> <li>And while there is a Trending Video chart, where Mariah Carey’s 2009 track “Obsessed” is currently the soundtrack for the #1 and #2 videos, you don’t have to go to the trending chart to find non-Top 40 tracks.</li> <li>For example, Why Mona’s 2017 moody electronic cover of the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” took the #2 spot yesterday with 9.2M videos, due to its viral dance that many users uploaded the song with.</li> <li>In 4th place with 7.6M videos is Sean Kingston’s 2007 track “Beautiful Girls”, where lots of TikTok-ers are do a cute hand dance or some Fortnite moves.</li> <li>Or in 135th place with 791K videos is none other than ABBA, with their 1986 track “Gimme! Gimme! Gimmie!”, because it has a nice “reveal” type of drop into its chorus. Users like to provide some kind of visual surprise or fun moment when it hits.</li> <li>So if you’ve got a catalog track ripe for memes, let her rip, because the world awaits its next hashtag!</li> </ul> </li> </ul>Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday, August 15th, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Our new TikTok Top Tracks and Trending Video charts are now live, check them out with a free account at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>Article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>Happy Thursday, we’ll see you tomorrow!</li></ul>

Music on TikTok Top Tracks and Trending Videos

  Highlights Lil Nas X, Billie Eilish and Nipsey Hussle top the Apple Music Top Songs chart yesterday Punjabi-Canadian rapper NAV rules the Billboard 200 album chart Regional mint playlists tap the dance floors around the world    MissionGood morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Tuesday April 2nd 2019.   Charts Apple Music’s Top Songs chart yesterday was dominated by three narratives: the viral psuedo-country hit by Lil Nas X, Billie Eilish’s new album “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?” and the untimely shooting death of LA rapper Nipsey Hussle. Of the Top 100 songs that charted, LA-based Billie Eilish came away as the most frequently occuring artist on the chart at 16 tracks total. Two of her older songs “lovely” and “Idontwannabeyouanymore” joined all 14 of her new album’s tracks in an impressive show of force on Apple Music. Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X, still managed to take the #1 spot on Apple’s Top Songs chart yesterday, probably in part thanks to the Billboard country chart controversy. Released on Apple only since March 13th, it’s already spent 10 days on the Top Songs chart. Finally, the work of LA artist and community activist Nipsey Hussle, after his fatal shooting in front of his clothing store in South Los Angeles, experienced a surge in listening. Six of Nipsey’s tracks, including collaborations with Kendrick Lamar and Puff Daddy, made it into the Top 100 songs chart from positions 18 to 76. Five of those were from his last 2018 album “Victory Lap”, which was Grammy-nominated for Best Rap Album. Nipsey was 33 years young. May he rest in peace.    Artist Highlight in the News Punjabi-Canadian rapper and producer NAV nabbed his first #1 album on the Billboard 200 chart announced on March 31st. The Toronto-native, who has tracks with The Weeknd, Travis Scott and Lil Uzi Vert, also has 1.2M Spotify followers and 8.9M monthly listeners, giving him a very impressive listener to follower ratio of 7. This bodes well for NAV since this suggests repeated listening despite having a relatively lower follower count. NAV’s hometown of Toronto takes fourth place in his most listened-to cities on Spotify, though his rap sound resonates most stateside: namely LA, Chicago, and Dallas.  His Instagram at 1.5M followers is growing at approximately 2.8K daily. His follower base is currently ¾ male and very strong in the 18-24 age range, with Nicki Minaj, Drake and WorldStarHipHop being among his most notable IG followers. If you want to check out NAV’s work, you can find him in the #42 slot on Today’s Top Hits with his track “Price on My Head” (feat. the Weeknd).    Playlist Round-Up  If you’re into electronic music, surely you already know about Spotify’s mint playlist at 5.4M followers and the 9th most followed playlist. But do you know about mint Latin? Or mint Canada, mint BR (Brazil), or mint India? Mint Latin for example has 1.8M followers and features “the new wave of Latin Electronic producers and DJs”. It currently has 50 tracks and an average track popularity score of 42 out of 100. If 42 sounds a little low, our Jan 2018 Medium article on the mint playlist discussed how dance music exists in a different space that is more about the hours-long mix, making any single artist or track, well, not as important. Surely this is made clear as mint Latin is a pre-mixed playlist just like its big brother: meaning if you listen from one track to another, a DJ has already made smooth transitions to give you one singular listening experience. So if you’re looking for a frontline-oriented playlist featuring dance sounds from certain regions of the world, look no further.    Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday April 2nd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. You can always get links to episode sources and additional information at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes. Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow!  

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul> <li>Lil Nas X, Billie Eilish and Nipsey Hussle top the Apple Music Top Songs chart yesterday</li> <li>Punjabi-Canadian rapper NAV rules the Billboard 200 album chart</li> <li>Regional mint playlists tap the dance floors around the world</li> </ul> </li> <li> Mission<ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Tuesday April 2nd 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Charts<ul> <li>Apple Music’s Top Songs chart yesterday was dominated by three narratives: the viral psuedo-country hit by Lil Nas X, Billie Eilish’s new album “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?” and the untimely shooting death of LA rapper Nipsey Hussle.</li> <li>Of the Top 100 songs that charted, LA-based Billie Eilish came away as the most frequently occuring artist on the chart at 16 tracks total. Two of her older songs “lovely” and “Idontwannabeyouanymore” joined all 14 of her new album’s tracks in an impressive show of force on Apple Music.</li> <li>Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X, still managed to take the #1 spot on Apple’s Top Songs chart yesterday, probably in part thanks to the Billboard country chart <a href="https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-lil-nas-xs-old-town-road-became-a-lightning-rod-for-race-the-charts-and-country-music/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">controversy</a>. Released on Apple only since March 13th, it’s already spent 10 days on the Top Songs chart.</li> <li>Finally, the work of LA artist and community activist Nipsey Hussle, after his fatal shooting in front of his clothing store in South Los Angeles, experienced a surge in listening.</li> <li>Six of Nipsey’s tracks, including collaborations with Kendrick Lamar and Puff Daddy, made it into the Top 100 songs chart from positions 18 to 76. Five of those were from his last 2018 album “Victory Lap”, which was Grammy-nominated for Best Rap Album.</li> <li>Nipsey was 33 years young. May he rest in peace.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Artist Highlight in the News<ul> <li>Punjabi-Canadian rapper and producer NAV <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8504886/nav-nets-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-bad-habits" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nabbed</a> his first #1 album on the Billboard 200 chart announced on March 31st.</li> <li>The Toronto-native, who has tracks with The Weeknd, Travis Scott and Lil Uzi Vert, also has 1.2M Spotify followers and 8.9M monthly listeners, giving him a very impressive listener to follower ratio of 7.</li> <li>This bodes well for NAV since this suggests repeated listening despite having a relatively lower follower count.</li> <li>NAV’s hometown of Toronto takes fourth place in his most listened-to cities on Spotify, though his rap sound resonates most stateside: namely LA, Chicago, and Dallas. </li> <li>His Instagram at 1.5M followers is growing at approximately 2.8K daily.</li> <li>His follower base is currently ¾ male and very strong in the 18-24 age range, with Nicki Minaj, Drake and WorldStarHipHop being among his most notable IG followers.</li> <li>If you want to check out NAV’s work, you can find him in the #42 slot on Today’s Top Hits with his track “Price on My Head” (feat. the Weeknd).</li> </ul> </li> <li> Playlist Round-Up <ul> <li>If you’re into electronic music, surely you already know about Spotify’s mint playlist at 5.4M followers and the 9th most followed playlist.</li> <li>But do you know about mint Latin? Or mint Canada, mint BR (Brazil), or mint India?</li> <li>Mint Latin for example has 1.8M followers and features “the new wave of Latin Electronic producers and DJs”. It currently has 50 tracks and an average track popularity score of 42 out of 100.</li> <li>If 42 sounds a little low, our Jan 2018 <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.io/minty-fresh-spotify-makes-a-new-home-for-edm-62eccfee2b09" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Medium article</a> on the mint playlist discussed how dance music exists in a different space that is more about the hours-long mix, making any single artist or track, well, not as important.</li> <li>Surely this is made clear as mint Latin is a pre-mixed playlist just like its big brother: meaning if you listen from one track to another, a DJ has already made smooth transitions to give you one singular listening experience.</li> <li>So if you’re looking for a frontline-oriented playlist featuring dance sounds from certain regions of the world, look no further.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday April 2nd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>You can always get links to episode sources and additional information at: <a href="https://chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes</a>.</li> <li>Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow!</li> </ul> </li></ul>

2019-04-02 // Apple Music Top Songs chart, NAV on the Billboard 200 album chart and Spotify's "mint" playlist series

  HighlightsIt’s New Music Friday Monday: Apple Music’s Best of the Week playlist showcases three different Latin &amp; US artist collaborations   MissionGood morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Monday April 22nd 2019.   New Music Friday Monday Welcome back to your work week. On Friday April 19th, Apple Music updated its flagship Global Release Day playlist, Best of the Week, with 73 songs totalling just over 4 hours playtime for the US storefront. Leading off the list is the lead single off the upcoming Game of Thrones soundtrack, “Power Is Power”, by SZA, The Weeknd and Travis Scott. The HBO show’s album is set to release on this Friday April 26th, so you’ll be sure to hear more about them soon. In the #2 position is none other than Ms. Beychella herself, Beyoncé’s cover of “Before I Let Go” by Maze and Frankie Beverly. The track’s release on last Wednesday coincided with the Netflix release of “Homecoming”, the documentary revolving around Queen B’s epic 2018 Coachella performance.    Latin &amp; US artist collaborations In the #3, 4 and 5 positions of Apple’s Best of the Week playlist, we have several star-studded Spanish/English collaborations. Kicking it off is America’s Madonna and Colombia’s Maluma on “Medellín”, a low-key reggaetón track that is leading off Madonna’s Madame X album that’s due in June. “Medellín” is on 20 editorial Apple playlists including the #1 spot on Today’s Hits in Portugal, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Panama.  The track showcases Apple Music’s unique ability to pre-release albums, as when you navigate to the track’s album on the platform, you can see the entire album’s tracks and artists with an album description featuring album art, while on Spotify, it’s simply released as a standalone single. The #4 position on Best of the Week is a remix of the wildly successful “Con Calma feat. Snow” by Puerto Rico’s Daddy Yankee.  American pop star Katy Perry has stepped in on a Spanish/English remix which Forbes compares to another attempt at a Justin Bieber-powered “Despacito” remix. The data is showing only lukewarm support however, featuring on only 14 Apple Music editorial playlists and 16 Spotify editorial lists. While these include Spotify’s Today’s Top Hits and New Music Friday playlists, the track is only in the #24 and #11 positions respectively. The track is getting slightly warmer coverage in Apple Music, featuring in the #3 position on Today’s Hits in 16 countries and Future Hits in 18 storefronts, but we’ll just have to see how the track performs in the days to come. Lastly in the #5 position of Apple’s Best of the Week list, is the “Calma - Alicia Remix” by Puerto Rican artists Pedro Capó and Farruko with American star Alicia Keys. The slow Latin grooves in the remix are the same as the original track by Capó, much like the Daddy Yankee and Katy Perry remix in which the production itself does not change besides the new English vocal. “Calma” is also featured on Today’s Hits in 16 country storefronts in the #2 position and two top 5 spots on the US and Dominican Republic Best of the Week lists. Most interestingly, none of these three Latin/US artist collaborations were picked up in any official Amazon Music playlists, but that’s something we’ll have to keep monitoring, as the trend of multi-lingual collaborations between Latin and American recording artists show no signs of slowing.    Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday April 22nd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signup  And article links and show notes are at a new website: podcast.chartmetric.com. Happy Monday, see you tomorrow!   

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul><li>It’s New Music Friday Monday: Apple Music’s Best of the Week playlist showcases three different Latin &amp; US artist collaborations</li></ul> </li> <li> Mission<ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Monday April 22nd 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> New Music Friday Monday<ul> <li>Welcome back to your work week.</li> <li>On Friday April 19th, Apple Music updated its flagship Global Release Day playlist, Best of the Week, with 73 songs totalling just over 4 hours playtime for the US storefront.</li> <li>Leading off the list is the lead single off the upcoming Game of Thrones soundtrack, “Power Is Power”, by SZA, The Weeknd and Travis Scott.</li> <li>The HBO show’s album is set to <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8507453/for-the-throne-track-list" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">release</a> on this Friday April 26th, so you’ll be sure to hear more about them soon.</li> <li>In the #2 position is none other than Ms. Beychella herself, Beyoncé’s cover of “Before I Let Go” by Maze and Frankie Beverly.</li> <li>The track’s release on last Wednesday <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/apr/18/beyonce-beychella-homecoming-film-coachella" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">coincided</a> with the Netflix release of “Homecoming”, the documentary revolving around Queen B’s epic 2018 Coachella performance.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Latin &amp; US artist collaborations<ul> <li>In the #3, 4 and 5 positions of Apple’s Best of the Week playlist, we have several star-studded Spanish/English collaborations.</li> <li>Kicking it off is America’s Madonna and Colombia’s Maluma on “Medellín”, a low-key reggaetón track that is leading off Madonna’s Madame X album that’s due in June.</li> <li>“Medellín” is on 20 editorial Apple playlists including the #1 spot on Today’s Hits in Portugal, Costa Rica, Bolivia and Panama. </li> <li>The track showcases Apple Music’s unique ability to pre-release albums, as when you navigate to the track’s album on the platform, you can see the entire album’s tracks and artists with an album description featuring album art, while on Spotify, it’s simply released as a standalone single.</li> <li>The #4 position on Best of the Week is a remix of the wildly successful “Con Calma feat. Snow” by Puerto Rico’s Daddy Yankee. </li> <li>American pop star Katy Perry has stepped in on a Spanish/English remix which Forbes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbenjamin/2019/04/19/daddy-yankee-con-calma-remix-katy-perry-snow-lift-to-crossover-pop-success/#7adb8bd78206" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">compares</a> to another attempt at a Justin Bieber-powered “Despacito” remix.</li> <li>The data is showing only lukewarm support however, featuring on only 14 Apple Music editorial playlists and 16 Spotify editorial lists. While these include Spotify’s Today’s Top Hits and New Music Friday playlists, the track is only in the #24 and #11 positions respectively.</li> <li>The track is getting slightly warmer coverage in Apple Music, featuring in the #3 position on Today’s Hits in 16 countries and Future Hits in 18 storefronts, but we’ll just have to see how the track performs in the days to come.</li> <li>Lastly in the #5 position of Apple’s Best of the Week list, is the “Calma - Alicia Remix” by Puerto Rican artists Pedro Capó and Farruko with American star Alicia Keys.</li> <li>The slow Latin grooves in the remix are the same as the original track by Capó, much like the Daddy Yankee and Katy Perry remix in which the production itself does not change besides the new English vocal.</li> <li>“Calma” is also featured on Today’s Hits in 16 country storefronts in the #2 position and two top 5 spots on the US and Dominican Republic Best of the Week lists.</li> <li>Most interestingly, none of these three Latin/US artist collaborations were picked up in any official Amazon Music playlists, but that’s something we’ll have to keep monitoring, as the trend of multi-lingual collaborations between Latin and American recording artists show no signs of slowing.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday April 22nd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">app.chartmetric.com/signup</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at a new website: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a>.</li> <li>Happy Monday, see you tomorrow! </li> </ul> </li></ul>

2019-04-22 // New Music Friday Monday: Apple Music's "Best of the Week" playlist

  HighlightsDigging into the music charts Gender Gap with data scientist Joshua Hayes   MissionGood morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we usually upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday April 19th 2019.   Gender Gap article Today, we’re going to do something a little more in-depth. A few days ago, Chartmetric released a blog article about the gender gap in the music charts, to include Billboard, Spotify and Apple Music charts and also across country boundaries and genres. Check it out, article link is the show notes. But first, let me introduce the author of the piece, data scientist and newest team member of Chartmetric, Josh Hayes. Josh is a Data Science Doctoral Fellow, Sociology PhD from UC Davis with additional degrees at Stanford and Michigan State, and is neck deep in data science projects. Gist of the article The converging of Spotify, Apple Music and Billboard Chartmetric Score - connection to revenue Super high/low female track, baseline male track dynamic Post-Grande era Genres Pop Latin Hip-Hop Country All Genres      Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday April 19th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signup  And article links and show notes are at a new website: podcast.chartmetric.com. Happy Friday, have a lovely weekend!   

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul><li>Digging into the music charts Gender Gap with data scientist Joshua Hayes</li></ul> </li> <li> Mission<ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we usually upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Friday April 19th 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Gender Gap article<ul> <li>Today, we’re going to do something a little more in-depth.</li> <li>A few days ago, Chartmetric released a blog article about the gender gap in the music charts, to include Billboard, Spotify and Apple Music charts and also across country boundaries and genres.</li> <li>Check it out, article <a href="https://blog.chartmetric.io/the-gender-play-gap-7f5e3a1b0066" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link</a> is the show notes.</li> <li>But first, let me introduce the author of the piece, data scientist and newest team member of Chartmetric, Josh Hayes.</li> <li>Josh is a Data Science Doctoral Fellow, Sociology PhD from UC Davis with additional degrees at Stanford and Michigan State, and is neck deep in data science projects.</li> <li>Gist of the article</li> <li>The converging of Spotify, Apple Music and Billboard</li> <li>Chartmetric Score - connection to revenue</li> <li>Super high/low female track, baseline male track dynamic</li> <li>Post-Grande era</li> <li>Genres<ul> <li>Pop</li> <li>Latin</li> <li>Hip-Hop</li> <li>Country</li> <li>All Genres</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday April 19th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">app.chartmetric.com/signup</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at a new website: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a>.</li> <li>Happy Friday, have a lovely weekend! </li> </ul> </li></ul>

2019-04-19 // The Gender Gap on the Music Charts

  Highlights  We do our best to stay out of the political fray, but with the Democratic debates wrapping last week, we look at the candidates’ streaming profiles to get a sense of not only who they’re listening to — but who is listening to them.    Mission    Good morning, it’s Rutger here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world. We’re on the socials at “chartmetric”, that’s Chartmetric, no “S ”- follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.    DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, August 9th, 2019.   When Streaming Gets Political, Who Gets the Vote? Think profiles and playlists are only for artists? Think again. We do our best to stay out of politics, but with the debates wrapping last week, why not look at the candidates’ streaming profiles to get a sense of not only who they’re listening to — but who is listening to them ... and how? Since no one is vying for the Republican nomination, with Trump seeking a second term, we’ll look at six of the Democratic candidates: Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Beto O’Rourke, Joe Biden, and Marianne Williamson. Booker’s Cory Booker’s Music playlist might only have around 150 followers, but what it lacks in popularity it makes up for in track popularity, with almost half of its 101 tracks at a popularity score of 60 or above. At around 180 followers, Biden’s streaming profile has about the same count as Booker’s playlist — but only 22 monthly listeners.  Harris’ Kamala’s Summer Playlist ups the ante with more than 4,000 followers tuning into her heavily rap, hip-hop, soul, and funk oriented 46-song listing.  O’Rourke’s BBQ for Beto has some 500 followers listening to his 94-song playlist, which ranges in genre from folk to classic rock and country to hardcore punk. Keep in mind, O-Rourke used to play in punk bands, so he definitely knows what’s up in that regard. As might be expected, Williamson’s streaming profile is heavily geared toward meditation, prayer, and motivational speeches — and it’s paying off. Williamson’s follower count is almost 1,800 with a Spotify monthly listener count of around 1,200, helping to make her listeners to followers ratio about 1 to 1. Perhaps most interesting, and maybe most unsurprising, is that her daily Wikipedia views shot up from some 12,000 to some 350,000 following the debate, correlating strongly with a daily change in her Instagram followers from around 600 to around 11,000 on Aug. 1. Yang’s Favorite Jams playlist leaves the others in the dust with more than 5,000 followers — despite it being primarily catalogue based. Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Yang appears to really enjoy Florence &amp; the Machine and the Cure. Streaming performance might not be an indication of political performance, but it does give us some insight into who these candidates are looking to win over — or at least how good their music taste is.   Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, August 9th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric. Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com  Article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com  Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

<ul> <li> Highlights  <ul><li>We do our best to stay out of the political fray, but with the Democratic debates wrapping last week, we look at the candidates’ streaming profiles to get a sense of not only who they’re listening to — but who is listening to them. </li></ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul> <li>Good morning, it’s Rutger here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li> <li>We’re on the socials at “chartmetric”, that’s Chartmetric, no “S ”- follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Friday, August 9th, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> When Streaming Gets Political, Who Gets the Vote?<ul> <li>Think profiles and playlists are only for artists? Think again.</li> <li>We do our best to stay out of politics, but with the debates wrapping last week, why not look at the candidates’ streaming profiles to get a sense of not only who they’re listening to — but who is listening to them ... and how?</li> <li>Since no one is vying for the Republican nomination, with Trump seeking a second term, we’ll look at six of the Democratic candidates: Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Beto O’Rourke, Joe Biden, and Marianne Williamson.</li> <li>Booker’s Cory Booker’s Music playlist might only have around 150 followers, but what it lacks in popularity it makes up for in track popularity, with almost half of its 101 tracks at a popularity score of 60 or above.</li> <li>At around 180 followers, Biden’s streaming profile has about the same count as Booker’s playlist — but only 22 monthly listeners. </li> <li>Harris’ Kamala’s Summer Playlist ups the ante with more than 4,000 followers tuning into her heavily rap, hip-hop, soul, and funk oriented 46-song listing. </li> <li>O’Rourke’s BBQ for Beto has some 500 followers listening to his 94-song playlist, which ranges in genre from folk to classic rock and country to hardcore punk.</li> <li>Keep in mind, O-Rourke used to play in punk bands, so he definitely knows what’s up in that regard.</li> <li>As might be expected, Williamson’s streaming profile is heavily geared toward meditation, prayer, and motivational speeches — and it’s paying off.</li> <li>Williamson’s follower count is almost 1,800 with a Spotify monthly listener count of around 1,200, helping to make her listeners to followers ratio about 1 to 1.</li> <li>Perhaps most interesting, and maybe most unsurprising, is that her daily Wikipedia views shot up from some 12,000 to some 350,000 following the debate, correlating strongly with a daily change in her Instagram followers from around 600 to around 11,000 on Aug. 1.</li> <li>Yang’s Favorite Jams playlist leaves the others in the dust with more than 5,000 followers — despite it being primarily catalogue based.</li> <li>Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Yang appears to really enjoy Florence &amp; the Machine and the Cure.</li> <li>Streaming performance might not be an indication of political performance, but it does give us some insight into who these candidates are looking to win over — or at least how good their music taste is.</li> </ul> </li> </ul>Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, August 9th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are available at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>Article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!</li></ul>

When Streaming Gets Political, Who Gets the Vote?

  Highlights  Rolling Stone, Music Ally, and others were particularly interested in a surprising data point from Part 2 of 6MO, our first-ever Global Music Industry Data Report. What’s that all about? Find out here.   Mission    Good morning, it’s Rutger here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world. We’re on the socials at “chartmetric” — that’s Chartmetric, no “S.”  Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.    DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, Oct. 4, 2019.   6MO Global Music Industry Data Report, Part 2: Platform-Playlist Analysis The domination by North American artists of the top streaming playlists was of particular interest to many major music publications as soon as we dropped 6MO. Obviously, it was to us too, but there was another trend that intrigued us in the Platform-Playlist Analysis section, or Part 2, of our Global Music Industry Data Report. That trend? The Top 5 genre differentiators on Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, and Spotify’s Top 30 playlists. What exactly do we mean by genre differentiators and how did we get there? Well, we pulled geographic and genre metadata tags for every artist included on each of those 120 playlists, filtering out personalized and artist-specific ones, and then, we calculated the distribution for each platform set.  What we found is that virtually across the board, Pop and Hip-Hop &amp; Rap take the Top 2 spots in terms of artist genre distribution for all four of those streaming platforms on June 30, 2019. Generally speaking, those genres account for about half of the market share on those top playlists for those platforms. Where things get interesting is in the No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5 spots, because that’s where the platforms begin to diverge from one another.  This is what we mean by genre differentiators in the Top 5 for each platform. On Amazon Music, for instance, Country makes the Top 5, which is not the case for any other platform.  On Apple Music, R&amp;B/Soul fills that role, on Deezer, it’s Latin &amp; Carribean, and on Spotify, it’s Folk, Traditional, and World. Surprising? Maybe not, if you’ve had that hunch all along. It is both satisfying and also illuminating to see it borne out in the data, however — and that’s what we’re all about.  If you want to see where Indie or any geographic region outside of North America stacks up, dig in to 6MO more here.    Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric. Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com  And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com  If you haven’t downloaded our report yet, you can find it all across our socials and in our show notes! Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!   

<ul> <li> Highlights  <ul><li>Rolling Stone, Music Ally, and others were particularly interested in a surprising data point from Part 2 of <a href="https://smarturl.it/6MO_H1_2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6MO, our first-ever Global Music Industry Data Report</a>. What’s that all about? Find out here.</li></ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul> <li>Good morning, it’s Rutger here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li> <li>We’re on the socials at “chartmetric” — that’s Chartmetric, no “S.” </li> <li>Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Friday, Oct. 4, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> 6MO Global Music Industry Data Report, Part 2: Platform-Playlist Analysis<ul> <li>The domination by North American artists of the top streaming playlists was of particular interest to many major music publications as soon as we dropped 6MO.</li> <li>Obviously, it was to us too, but there was another trend that intrigued us in the Platform-Playlist Analysis section, or Part 2, of our Global Music Industry Data Report.</li> <li>That trend? The Top 5 genre differentiators on Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, and Spotify’s Top 30 playlists.</li> <li>What exactly do we mean by genre differentiators and how did we get there?</li> <li>Well, we pulled geographic and genre metadata tags for every artist included on each of those 120 playlists, filtering out personalized and artist-specific ones, and then, we calculated the distribution for each platform set. </li> <li>What we found is that virtually across the board, Pop and Hip-Hop &amp; Rap take the Top 2 spots in terms of artist genre distribution for all four of those streaming platforms on June 30, 2019.</li> <li>Generally speaking, those genres account for about half of the market share on those top playlists for those platforms.</li> <li>Where things get interesting is in the No. 3, No. 4, and No. 5 spots, because that’s where the platforms begin to diverge from one another. </li> <li>This is what we mean by genre differentiators in the Top 5 for each platform.</li> <li>On Amazon Music, for instance, Country makes the Top 5, which is not the case for any other platform. </li> <li>On Apple Music, R&amp;B/Soul fills that role, on Deezer, it’s Latin &amp; Carribean, and on Spotify, it’s Folk, Traditional, and World.</li> <li>Surprising? Maybe not, if you’ve had that hunch all along.</li> <li>It is both satisfying and also illuminating to see it borne out in the data, however — and that’s what we’re all about. </li> <li>If you want to see where Indie or any geographic region outside of North America stacks up, <a href="https://smarturl.it/6MO_H1_2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dig in to 6MO more here</a>.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are available at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a> </li> <li>If you haven’t downloaded our report yet, <a href="https://smarturl.it/6MO_H1_2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">you can find it all across our socials and in our show notes</a>!</li> <li>Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week! </li> </ul> </li></ul>

6MO Global Music Industry Data Report, Part 2: Platform-Playlist Analysis

HighlightsIt’s Found on Friday, and we’re digging in with our A&amp;R tool to find breaking artists based on YouTube Channel Views, and that’s important, because YouTube is technically the most popular streaming platform in the world.Mission   Good morning, it’s Rutger again at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, May 24th 2019.Found on Friday: Momoiro Clover Z, Yella Beezy &amp; Junip Welcome back to Found on Friday. We’re digging in with our A&amp;R tool to find artists breaking through the surface in a global way.  If we search according to highest growth percentage in YouTube Channel Views, we land on three artists with notable momentum on YouTube right now: Momoiro Clover Z, Yella Beezy, and Junip. First up, J-pop group, let's call them MCZ for short, the first to make theme music for Sailor Moon, Pokémon, AND Dragonball Z, in addition to being the fourth highest grossing artist in Japan in 2013, based on CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray sales — yes, physical is still VERY important in the Japanese music market — they've experienced a 14 percent growth in their YouTube channel views over the last 28-day period. Their Spotify monthly listeners have spiked almost 29 percent over the last 30 days as well. But the group is not new, so what shot them to the top of the breaking list? Well ... they did just come out with a new album on May 17th.… Just about tied with MCZ is Texas rapper Yella Beezy, whose growth percentage is up to 14.4 percent this period from the previous 30 days’ 9.5 percent.  Yella Beezy, whose latest track features Gucci Mane and Quavo from Migos, also soared 16 spots from No. 50 to No. 34 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart.  Switching gears altogether now for Sweden’s folk rock duo Junip, composed of soft-spoken singer-songwriter Jose Gonzalez and Tobias Winterkorn, who experienced a 13 percent jump in the last 28 day-period. This correlates with a 10.2 percent increase in their YouTube channel subscribers over the last 30 days, which is surprising, as it doesn’t look like they’ve released anything recently…. Maybe fans of Rogue Wave and Ben Howard got turned on to them? We don’t know. What we do know is Junip’s monthly Spotify listeners dropped an estimated .2 percent in the last 30 days, but their Spotify followers increased .4 percent in the same period. So, no, not all streaming services are created equal. Check out these stats: YouTube is technically the biggest music streaming source in the world, with close to a billion users consuming music via user upload video streaming. Compare that with just over 200 million users consuming music via “traditional” streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, and the importance of YouTube stats as some indication of an artist’s digital presence worldwide becomes clear. So there you have it — a Japanese idol group, a Texas rapper, and a Swedish folk duo comprise an eclectic trio of international artists on a YouTube hot streak right now. Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, May 24th 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric. Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signup  And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com. Happy Friday, see you tomorrow! 

Highlights<ul><li>It’s Found on Friday, and we’re digging in with our A&amp;R tool to find breaking artists based on YouTube Channel Views, and that’s important, because YouTube is technically the most popular streaming platform in the world.</li></ul>Mission   <ul><li>Good morning, it’s Rutger again at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul>Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Friday, May 24th 2019.</li></ul>Found on Friday: Momoiro Clover Z, Yella Beezy &amp; Junip<ul> <li>Welcome back to Found on Friday. We’re digging in with our A&amp;R tool to find artists breaking through the surface in a global way. </li> <li>If we search according to highest growth percentage in YouTube Channel Views, we land on three artists with notable momentum on YouTube right now: Momoiro Clover Z, Yella Beezy, and Junip.</li> <li>First up, J-pop group, let's call them MCZ for short, the first to make theme music for Sailor Moon, Pokémon, AND Dragonball Z, in addition to being the <a href="https://www.tokyohive.com/article/2013/12/oricon-2013-yearly-charts-artist-total-sales" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fourth highest grossing artist in Japan in 2013</a>, based on CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray sales — yes, physical is still VERY important in the Japanese music market — they've experienced a 14 percent growth in their YouTube channel views over the last 28-day period.</li> <li>Their Spotify monthly listeners have spiked almost 29 percent over the last 30 days as well. But the group is not new, so what shot them to the top of the breaking list? Well ... they did just come out with a new album on May 17th.…</li> <li>Just about tied with MCZ is Texas rapper Yella Beezy, whose growth percentage is up to 14.4 percent this period from the previous 30 days’ 9.5 percent. </li> <li>Yella Beezy, whose latest track features Gucci Mane and Quavo from Migos, also soared 16 spots from No. 50 to No. 34 on <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8512640/yella-beezy-quando-rondo-chart-success" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart</a>. </li> <li>Switching gears altogether now for Sweden’s folk rock duo Junip, composed of soft-spoken singer-songwriter Jose Gonzalez and Tobias Winterkorn, who experienced a 13 percent jump in the last 28 day-period. This correlates with a 10.2 percent increase in their YouTube channel subscribers over the last 30 days, which is surprising, as it doesn’t look like they’ve released anything recently…. Maybe fans of Rogue Wave and Ben Howard got turned on to them? We don’t know. What we do know is Junip’s monthly Spotify listeners dropped an estimated .2 percent in the last 30 days, but their Spotify followers increased .4 percent in the same period. So, no, not all streaming services are created equal.</li> <li>Check out these stats: YouTube is technically the biggest music streaming source in the world, with <a href="https://www.ifpi.org/downloads/GMR2017_ValueGap.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">close to a billion users consuming music via user upload video streaming</a>. Compare that with just over 200 million users consuming music via “traditional” streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, and the importance of YouTube stats as some indication of an artist’s digital presence worldwide becomes clear.</li> <li>So there you have it — a Japanese idol group, a Texas rapper, and a Swedish folk duo comprise an eclectic trio of international artists on a YouTube hot streak right now.</li> </ul>Outro<ul> <li>That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, May 24th 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="https://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">app.chartmetric.com/signup</a> </li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="https://podcast.chartmetric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a>.</li> <li>Happy Friday, see you tomorrow! </li></ul>

2019-05-24 // What Do J-Pop, Texas Rap, and Swedish Folk Have in Common?

  HighlightsGrab your passports, it’s Excursion Thursday, and we’re headed to Mumbai, India’s largest city and Spotify’s largest potential market.   Mission   Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.   DateThis is your Data Dump for Thursday, May 23rd, 2019.   Excursion Thursday: Mumbai On today’s Excursion Thursday, we’re taking off to India’s most populated city, Mumbai, which has quickly become a testing ground for Spotify’s global expansion strategy.  Until 1995, the “Hollywood of India” was also called Bombay, what many in India saw as a vestige of British colonialism, hence the name change. The city’s booming movie industry lends the city its other famous moniker, “Bollywood”. Mumbai is not only the wealthiest city in India, but it’s also arguably the financial, arts, and entertainment capital of the entire country with an estimated 22.5 million  Mumbaikars more than doubling the population of New York City! It’s clear why Spotify’s weathering its recent challenges in-country, as India’s population is currently at 1.4 billion and climbing — that’s almost 20 percent of everybody on earth, while North America comprises around 5 percent.  So, if Spotify’s been able to acquire an estimated 50M monthly active users out of North America’s 366M people and an estimated 60M monthly active users out of Europe’s 743M people, that gives them a market penetration rate lying somewhere between 8 and 15 percent. Apply that to a population of 1.4B, and SPOT’s stock price will rise, for sure. So, based on the city’s listening profile….how’s it going? Unfortunately, it’s too early to tap into Spotify’s local monthly listeners, but we can at least look at other Western platforms that are operating there. Mumbai’s Shazam and YouTube charts definitely reflect the battle between domestic and foreign repertoire preferences. According to the Top 90 tracks by Shazam Chart Occurrences in the past month, a total of 22 bear Indian ISRC codes. That’s around 25% of total Shazam’d tracks we captured, while there are 38 US-based ISRCs present, about 40%. Moving to Shazam’s most charted artists in Mumbai over the last 30 days, American rappers Swae Lee and Lil Nas X come in 1st and 3rd with 52 and 47 chart appearances, respectively, and Puerto Rican singer Farruko in 2nd with 50. Fourth and 5th place go to film music composers Vishal-Shekhar and star singer Arijit Singh with 42 and 41 chart appearances each. Using Top Tracks by YouTube Views, we see a mixed bag at the top, with T. Swift and Brendon Urie’s “Me!” at 235K average daily views and Katy Perry and Migos’ “Bon Appétit” at 77K daily views in 1st and 3rd place respectively. Second place goes to “Aankh Mare” from Bollywood movie Simmba sitting pretty at 188K views.  Genre-wise on the Shazam charts in the past month, it’s still a battle between local and foreign fare: with Hip-Hop at 11 genre tags from mostly American artists, Dance at 15 genre tags from an international artist roster, and Pop at 22 genre tags from both Western and Indian artists.  Twelve of Pop genre tags are from domestic artists, suggesting there’s a slight skew in the past month  toward the local when it comes to the genre. While Spotify competes with the entrenched Indian streaming service JioSaavn, partly headquartered in Mumbai and specializing in Bollywood music , Mumbai’s demand for both Indian and Western music will prove to either be Spotify’s ace in the hole or rock in its shoe.    Outro That’s a wrap for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday, May 23nd, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric. Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signup And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com. Hope you’re not too jet-lagged from today’s Excursion Thursday, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow!  

<ul> <li> Highlights<ul><li>Grab your passports, it’s Excursion Thursday, and we’re headed to Mumbai, India’s largest city and Spotify’s largest potential market.</li></ul> </li> <li> Mission   <ul><li>Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists, and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.</li></ul> </li> <li> Date<ul><li>This is your Data Dump for Thursday, May 23rd, 2019.</li></ul> </li> <li> Excursion Thursday: Mumbai<ul> <li>On today’s Excursion Thursday, we’re taking off to India’s most populated city, Mumbai, which has quickly become a testing ground for Spotify’s global expansion strategy. </li> <li>Until 1995, the “Hollywood of India” was also called Bombay, <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/12/why-did-bombay-become-mumbai.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">what many in India saw as a vestige of British colonialism</a>, hence the name change. The city’s booming movie industry lends the city its other famous moniker, “Bollywood”.</li> <li>Mumbai is not only <a href="https://www.livemint.com/Politics/MZVXMC045fNfaw6XM9zHQP/India-needs-cities-network-for-easy-ruralurban-shift.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the wealthiest city in India</a>, but it’s also arguably the financial, arts, and entertainment capital of the entire country with an estimated 22.5 million  Mumbaikars more than doubling the population of New York City!</li> <li>It’s clear why Spotify’s <a href="https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-could-launch-in-india-today-as-high-court-rejects-warner-chappell-injunction/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">weathering</a> its recent challenges in-country, as <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/india-population/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">India’s population is currently at 1.4 billion and climbing</a> — that’s almost <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20 percent of everybody on earth</a>, while North America comprises around <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/northern-america-population/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">5 percent</a>. </li> <li>So, if Spotify’s been able to acquire <a href="http://www.businessofapps.com/data/spotify-statistics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">an estimated 50M monthly active users</a> out of <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/northern-america-population/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">North America’s 366M people</a> and <a href="http://www.businessofapps.com/data/spotify-statistics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">an estimated 60M monthly active users</a> out of <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-population/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Europe’s 743M people</a>, that gives them a market penetration rate lying somewhere between 8 and 15 percent. Apply that to a population of 1.4B, and SPOT’s stock price will rise, for sure.</li> <li>So, based on the city’s listening profile….how’s it going? Unfortunately, it’s too early to tap into Spotify’s local monthly listeners, but we can at least look at other Western platforms that are operating there.</li> <li>Mumbai’s Shazam and YouTube charts definitely reflect the battle between domestic and foreign repertoire preferences.</li> <li>According to the Top 90 tracks by Shazam Chart Occurrences in the past month, a total of 22 bear Indian ISRC codes. That’s around 25% of total Shazam’d tracks we captured, while there are 38 US-based ISRCs present, about 40%.</li> <li>Moving to Shazam’s most charted artists in Mumbai over the last 30 days, American rappers Swae Lee and Lil Nas X come in 1st and 3rd with 52 and 47 chart appearances, respectively, and Puerto Rican singer Farruko in 2nd with 50. Fourth and 5th place go to film music composers Vishal-Shekhar and star singer Arijit Singh with 42 and 41 chart appearances each.</li> <li>Using Top Tracks by YouTube Views, we see a mixed bag at the top, with T. Swift and Brendon Urie’s “Me!” at 235K average daily views and Katy Perry and Migos’ “Bon Appétit” at 77K daily views in 1st and 3rd place respectively. Second place goes to “Aankh Mare” from Bollywood movie Simmba sitting pretty at 188K views. </li> <li>Genre-wise on the Shazam charts in the past month, it’s still a battle between local and foreign fare: with Hip-Hop at 11 genre tags from mostly American artists, Dance at 15 genre tags from an international artist roster, and Pop at 22 genre tags from both Western and Indian artists. </li> <li>Twelve of Pop genre tags are from domestic artists, suggesting there’s a slight skew in the past month  toward the local when it comes to the genre.</li> <li>While Spotify competes with the entrenched Indian streaming service JioSaavn, partly headquartered in Mumbai and specializing in Bollywood music , Mumbai’s demand for both Indian and Western music will prove to either be Spotify’s ace in the hole or rock in its shoe.</li> </ul> </li> <li> Outro<ul> <li>That’s a wrap for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday, May 23nd, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.</li> <li>Free accounts are at <a href="http://app.chartmetric.com/signup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">app.chartmetric.com/signup</a></li> <li>And article links and show notes are at: <a href="http://podcast.chartmetric.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast.chartmetric.com</a>.</li> <li>Hope you’re not too jet-lagged from today’s Excursion Thursday, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow!</li> </ul> </li></ul>

2019-05-23 // Excursion Thursday: Mumbai, India

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