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How Music ChartsSeason 2, Episode 1 - Get to Know the Hosts (Jason Joven, Rutger Ansley Rosenborg)Guests: Jason Joven - Manager, Content and InsightsRutger Ansley Rosenborg - Digital Marketing Timestamps:0:00 - Intro to Season 2's format1:15 - S2E1 intro1:56 - Jason's background4:25 - Rutger's background6:25 - Data vs. Gut9:35 - Where should business data start to mix with the creative process?11:44 - AI startups changing music itself13:20 - SPEED ROUND15:16 - Wrap-Up How Music Charts is owned and operated by ChartmetricEmail us at [email protected] on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, InstagramFree accounts are available at chartmetric.com Article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com

Highlights  Early 2000s emo princes of darkness My Chemical Romance dropped a special treat for fans on Halloween, revealing some incredible metrics for a band that has been on hiatus for six years. 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, one word and no “S.” Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.Just a heads up that we’ll be switching formats from two times a week to two to three times a month as we transition to a longer form podcast that will include interviews with some very special guests.DateWithout further ado, this is your Data Dump for Friday, Nov. 1, 2019.My Chemical Romance’s Reunion Shows Scary Good NumbersHope you had a very spooky and safe Halloween.There’s no trick here: For early 2000s pop-punk nostalgists and emo aficionados, My Chemical Romance dropped a very special treat.The eye shadow-laden foursome announced their reunion on the most costume-heavy day of the year, and the internet was all about it.If you were sitting there thinking the emo/pop-punk thing was just a fad, think again, because MCR’s numbers show otherwise. Sure, it’s been six years since their break-up, but their numbers have been steadily climbing since we started tracking their data.In March 2018, the band was at 4.9M Spotify Monthly Listeners, 2.7M Followers, and a Spotify Popularity Index of 78 out of 100.As of Halloween, they’re at 6.7M Spotify Monthly Listeners, 4.3M Followers, and a Spotify Popularity Index of … drum roll please: 78!Those stats are pretty stunning — six years of effective inactivity, and MCR has managed to maintain their streaming numbers.If we look at their Neighboring Artists and filter by genre cluster, things get more impressive. Paramore, who are just above them in terms of Cross-Platform Performance rank, are at the same Spotify popularity level.However, Paramore released an album just two and a half years ago, and they were releasing new music videos as recently as last year.To be fair, MCR has had help from frontman Gerard Way’s award-winning comic books — one of which has a Netflix adaptation — in addition to his and other members’ side projects and the band’s 2016 reissue of 2006’s The Black Parade.However, with a band that hasn’t really had a frontline release for six years and is still maintaining their metrics, a Halloween announcement of their December reunion can only mean one thing right?There’s nowhere to go but up.Already, we see a daily Spotify Monthly Listener change from -891 to 7.4K, a daily Twitter Follower gain from 51 to 46K, a daily Instagram Follower gain from 140 to 12.7K, and a daily YouTube Channel Views gain from about half a million to just under a million.Now, that’s scary good, so bravo, My Chemical Romance, bravo.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comIf you haven’t downloaded 6MO, our Global Music Industry Data Report, yet, you can find it all across our socials and in our show notes!Did we mention our Playlist Journeys feature is live now?Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you this month with our new format! 

Highlights  If a song was a traveller making its way through the playlist world, what would its passport look like? What connections could we make through the playlists it went through? Vamos a ver.  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.” 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 Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019.Track Journeys on Today’s Top Hits...Where Do Tracks Go? These days playlists are a given standard in the recorded music industry, and naturally they get a lot of our attention.Tracks come and go through these curated collections and…wait a minute...where do these tracks come from and where do they get added to after? Let’s dig in.So an easy point of reference to start from is Spotify’s flagship playlist, Today’s Top Hits with 24.5M followers. We’ve collected over 1K tracks that the 50-track list has placed since May 2016. It changes the majority of its list every Friday, though sometimes it sneaks in a track or two on Mondays and Wednesdays.Now, where do all of these tracks come from?Using a new feature we call Playlist Track Journeys, we can look backwards and see common tracks that Today’s Top Hits has with other Spotify playlists.For example, it might not be a surprise that more than 25 official New Music Friday playlists (including those from Germany, the Philippines and Turkey)  place tracks just before or concurrently with TTH, as both playlists frequently are showcases for well-established artists to premiere new work.But did you know that 37% of Spotify's Pop Rising tracks were added before TTH? For example, over three months ago, Pop Rising added Sam Feldt’s “Post Malone” track on May 27th and 23 days later on June 19th, the track got added to Today’s Top Hits, jumping from Pop Rising’s 1.8M followers to the big show with over 10x the amount of TTH followers, in less than a month.Other playlists have common track DNA with TTH, such as Get Popped! with 218K followers and 26% track overlap, as well as Digster’s Danish playlist Hits Nu, with 185K followers and 12% overlap.If that weren't enough, we can also look forward as well: looking at where TTH tracks go after they were added to the flagship list.In this case, Ali Gatie’s acoustic guitar-driven ballad banger “It’s You” got added to the Global Top 50 playlist nine days after it was added to TTH, part of a 46% track overlap.Or another insight is that 67% of the Lithuania Viral 50 playlist got added to its catalog after first being added to TTH, sometimes as much as 30 days later. This seems to indicate some sort of market lag Western hits experience locally, which can be useful information.Now whether looking back or forward, correlation is certainly not causation, and let us be the first to say it. But there is still an advantage to understanding some of the relationships between playlists through the common song histories they share.It could also provide a general path for your new music to emulate, especially if you're nurturing an emerging artist's career, going from lower tier followed lists to more prominent ones. The uses are many, so we’ll see in the months ahead what other parts of the playlist ecosystem we can begin to understand.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Wednesday, we’ll see you on Friday! 

Highlights  This week, two huge artists let the track lists of their upcoming albums slip and a couple of other big names released music videos. Let’s see if they reaped any data rewards. 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, one word and 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. 25, 2019.Track List Reveals and Music Videos: Stunts or Bumps?Coldplay and Miley Cyrus let the track listings for their respective upcoming albums drop this week, while Doja Cat and Selena Gomez released some music video eye candy to promote their upcoming album releases.We’re not saying the strategies are mutually exclusive by any means, but what are the actual gains from each, from a data perspective?Coldplay, who cheekily revealed the track list of their upcoming album by posting a classified ad in North Wales’ Daily Post, have been pretty good about staying in the spotlight, but amidst collabs and side projects, they’ve still managed to put together a double album called “Everyday Life,” which is due out Nov. 22.So far, the sneaky announcement has garnered tons of press, helped along by the release of “Arabesque” and “Orphans,” two tracks from each album.It probably didn’t cost them very much, either.While the effect seems relatively negligible now due its two-day freshness, across most platforms, they’re showing signs of an upward trajectory.They’ve gained some 30K Spotify followers, 5K Insta followers, 2K Twitter followers, and 8.5K Wikipedia views. They’ve also increased their Spotify popularity by a point, which is not insignificant in just a day or two’s work.Clearly, Coldplay had a lot of intention behind their track list leak, but Miley Cyrus’ situation is a bit murkier.During a livestream on Instagram on Sunday, viewers spotted a whiteboard behind Miley with a bunch of, well, presumably track names scrawled all over it.It doesn’t look staged, but then again, her upcoming album isn’t exactly a secret, so there could be a bit of guerilla marketing going on there.Seeing as she hasn’t released anything “tangible” this week, her metrics are a bit more stagnant, which is not to diminish her No. 10 rank across eight platforms, according to our Cross-Platform Performance ranking system.Two artists who have some audiovisual tangibility to show are former Disney star Selena Gomez and LA-based rapper Doja Cat.Gomez’s “Look at Her Now” music video has bumped her up in terms of fan acquisition on Spotify, Instagram, Twitter, SoundCloud, and YouTube, but her streams and views aren’t seeing a huge lift … yet.She did just release two new singles within a day of each other, so those follower gains are likely to bump up her listener and views gains in the coming days.Star-on-the-rise Doja Cat was trending hard on Twitter following her music video/single drop of “Rules” and her streaming numbers are climbing and climbing.Just six months ago, Doja was at 1.9M Spotify Monthly Listeners.That number started accelerating in August, from 2.6M to 3.7M, and just this month, she’s gone from 4.6M to nearly 6M. Combined with her half-a-million-Spotify-followers-and-climbing, her Spotify popularity score is edging near the upper echelons of the streaming world.With the kind of attention that Doja’s powerfully provocative video is getting, there’s some definite streaming staying power there.So, while album track list leaks don’t appear to be particularly indicative of a data bump on their own, combined with a double-single release — especially if you’re Coldplay — they can be a relatively inexpensive strategy for generating a lot of attention.There’s nothing like a really cool music video to train and sustain all eyes on an artist, though.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comIf you haven’t downloaded 6MO, our Global Music Industry Data 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! 

HighlightsWhat does an emerging Atlanta rapper and a British TV series soundtrack have to do with each other? Let our A&R Prediction tool explain.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.The SXSW 2020 schedule was just announced yesterday, and Chartmetric is officially hosting two panels: one on Trigger Cities in the Creating & Monetizing Music track and another on Music Data for Engineers & Data Scientists for the Future of Music track. We’ll see you there.Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at chartmetric, one word, no “s”.DateThis is your Data Dump for Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019.Making Growth Predictions With Our New A&R ToolsOn October 9th, one of Chartmetric’s Data Scientists, Josh Hayes, wrote on our blog about the new A&R Prediction capabilities we now have live on the app, and now it’s time to dig into it!We currently have a menu of algorithms that create shortlists of talent that we expect to grow in the next week.We trained a model based on thousands of success-patterns taken from 1.7 million artists over the past 3 years, including album releases, monthly listeners, followers, and Spotify Popularity Index.One of the algorithms predicts who will reach a Spotify Popularity Index (or SPI) of 35 in the next week. If you’re not familiar with SPI, essentially Spotify internally ranks the popularity of all artists on their platform daily, and puts them on a 100-point scale according to their own metrics, which we also track.Coming in #1 yesterday was Atlanta rapper Benjamin Ken who is currently at 23 SPI and grew from 7.5K followers in mid-July to 11.8K followers now.The biggest spike for Ken seems to be his monthly listeners, which was in the 300s only last Wednesday, and spiked up to 12.5K as of Monday.The interesting part is Ken was not added to any new Spotify playlists since August 22nd, and hasn’t released any new music on the platform since his CHOSEN EP in July 2019...so this looks like a case in which the stimulus of increased Spotify traction has nothing to do with Spotify, it only acting as a repository for increased attention from another source, which for now, requires more digging.Another algorithm we have in the A&R Prediction tool looks at who will break a Spotify Popularity Index of 30 in the next week, which is digging deeper into the level of complexity and confidence on whether they’ll actually hit that benchmark...but hey as long as it’s good music, who cares?Yesterday’s winner was London rock outfit Eyes on Film at 25 SPI and a rather flat follower growth going from the 200s in 2017 to only the 500s this week.Despite the low follower growth, Eyes on Film went from just under 8K monthly listeners at the end of July to breaking 21K this week, growing over 50% in the past month alone.What’s going on here? Yet another TV sync success story...in this case, the award-winning, BBC-produced, and Netflix-acquired series Peaky Blinders, starring Cillian Murphy.The Eyes on Film track “Waking Up Dead” was released back in 2013, but it is also included in two Peaky Blinder-oriented playlists with 288K and 108K followers each.With the fifth season of the series releasing on BBC One in August, coinciding with Eyes on Film’s also spiking up in...you guessed it, August...we now have our method behind the madness.There’s more for us to explore together on the A&R Prediction tool later, but for now, we hope you check it out for yourself!Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Wednesday, we’ll see you Friday! 

Highlights  Australian singer-songwriter Tones and I and North Carolina-born/Eastern Europe-raised rapper Ashnikko are some of the first notable case studies in TikTok virality. How are they capitalizing on it?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, one word and 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. 18, 2019.The Young Female Artists Capitalizing on Their TikTok ViralityAs TikTok’s popularity intensifies, so does the scrutiny, which is why the National Music Publishers’ Association recently claimed the platform “consistently violated US copyright law and the rights of songwriters and music publishers.”Whether or not this is true, it’s clear the platform-on-the-rise, which is making its mark as a new breeding ground for discovery, is benefiting some creatives substantially.We first noticed 19-year-old Australian singer-songwriter Tones and I’s “Dance Monkey,” for instance, on the TikTok charts a couple of months back. At the time, the Sony artist’s Spotify footprint was promising, but not exactly huge.When “Dance Monkey” first came out in May, she had around 3.5K Followers.Once July hit and the TikToks started pouring in, her Spotify Follower stats rose precipitously, from 15K in July to 30K in August, 70K in September, and 150K this month.Four of the Top 44 TikTok videos are still sporting “Dance Monkey” soundtracks, and the song is still in the Top 200 on TikTok’s track charts. There’s a similar story happening with North Carolina-born and Eastern Europe-raised rapper Ashnikko, aka Ashton Casey.23-year-old Ashnikko, who embraces Japanese anime and video game references, recently dropped the collaborative track “STUPID” with Yung Baby Tate, and her TikTok climb is stunning. Six of the Top 44 TikTok videos are already using her track, and she’s also in the Top 200 on TikTok’s track charts.Right now, her stats across other platforms like Spotify are exhibiting a growth pattern similar to Tones and I’s when she first started carving out her TikTok niche, so all indications point to Ashnikko being an artist to watch going into 2020 — and not just on TikTok.With edgy, stylish teenage phenom Billie Eilish having worked wonders for Universal — are Tones and I and Ashnikko, respectively, Sony and Warner’s rebuttal? OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comIf you haven’t downloaded 6MO, our Global Music Industry Data 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! 

HighlightsPeloton’s recent IPO has us wondering about the most popular fitness playlists on Spotify and Deezer, so slap on some cross-trainers and fire up those Bluetooth earbuds.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. 16, 2019.Music + Fitness: Shaping Up Spotify and Deezer’s Top Workout PlaylistsPeloton, the indoor fitness brand best associated with its high-energy, online-class guided cycling experiences, went public on Oct. 7th, but closed its first day 11% under its initial public offering price, according to CNN.Competitor SoulCycle pulled out of IPO-ing last year, and maybe it has something to do with the music issues Peloton is now facing: a $300M lawsuit from a group of music publishers.Whether they’re using IP legitimately or not, there’s a lot at stake when it comes to music’s intimate relationship to fitness, according to music/tech journalist Cherie Hu’s latest newsletter.And it’s definitely illustrated by Spotify’s most popular workout playlists, six of which are in the Top 100 in terms of Follower count:Beast Mode is the most popular context-based fitness playlist on the Swedish platform, and the 9th most followed overall at 6.5M Followers.Post Malone is currently getting the most unique monthly listeners from four playlist slots he’s currently sitting in, acquiring 891K MLs.Reggaeton king J Balvin and American DJ/producer Marshmello are in the #2 and #3 slots with 592K and 577K Beast Mode-specific MLs respectively.Almost 20% of the current list is tagged as EDM, and more than 30% if you include Brostep.More than half of the current list are American artists, with the second most-represented country being high-energy Dutch electronic artists like Armin van Buuren, Hardwell and R3HAB...but still comprising only 13% of the list.Spotify’s Motivation Mix at 4.4M Followers and the simply-titled Workout playlist at 3.3M are the next most popular fitness lists there, but an interesting juxtaposition may be Deezer’s most popular fitness playlist, Rock Workout.That’s right: the #1 list to work out to on the French streaming platform is based around the rock genre, which is very different from Spotify’s top workout mixes, which are usually hip-hop, pop or dance-based.Rock Workout has 342K fans and currently a 70-track count, compared to Beast Mode’s 200 track count.Up until mid-May this year, Beast Mode only held 50 tracks at once, and though the amount of slots open up in the playlist, they do a great job of keeping things fresh, with a 100% 28-day ratio, meaning that the entire list has changed in the past month.With Rock Workout, only 3% of the list has changed in the past month, even though it’s less than ¼ of Beast Mode’s track count, featuring artists such as Linkin Park, Nickelback and AC/DC.Other Deezer workout playlists like Rap & Sport and Motivation Hits at 324K fans each feature much of the same pop/hip-hop/EDM fare you may expect...but it just goes to show that not all sweat beads to the same drummer.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comIf 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! 

Highlights  UK singer-songwriter and producer prodigy Labrinth has created a hallucinatory experience with his soundtrack of HBO’s new show Euphoria, and with data as our guide, we’re going to try to navigate the psychedelic experience with you.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, one word and 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. 11, 2019.Take a Psych Trip Through Labrinth’s ‘Euphoria’Besides collaborating with Sia, Diplo, and Beyonce in recent years, Timothy Lee McKenzie, better known by his stage name, Labrinth, just scored — literally and figuratively — his first TV series, HBO’s Euphoria.According to Rolling Stone, “His soundtrack ... hums with soft electricity, perfectly complementing the journey of the main character, Rue, a teenager caught in limbo between the euphoria of a drug high and the harsh consequences of addiction.”It’s rare that a TV show soundtrack generates high — if any at all — demand, but according to McKenzie himself, “If I put a post up, the first message is ‘Where’s the album? Where’s the soundtrack?!’ So I’m like, ‘OK, don’t worry.’ We’re working on getting ‘em what they need.”And he and the HBO team did just that, releasing the soundtrack last Friday.Though his early April releases of “SIN” and LSD, his Sia/Diplo collab, accounted for his highest Spotify Follower gains this year, at 5K and 3K, respectively, Euphoria has him at a 2K increase.That said, on Insta and Wikipedia, an early single drop from the soundtrack on Aug. 3 gave Labrinth his most significant spikes with a 5K follower increase and 3.5K views, respectively.It’s an interesting strategy for artists, labels, and managers to think about, because not only are there upfront fiscal upsides from synchronizations, but there are also the inherent promotional upsides couched in the television and video streaming industry’s massive marketing budgets. That’s not to say that it limits a series to only one artist, of course.Euphoria’s official Spotify playlist, which includes every track used in Season 1, ranges from Solange to Lizzo, Blood Orange to Randy Newman and much, much more.Unfortunately, an individual curator seems to have ripped the official Euphoria playlist and pawned it off as their own, outperforming the official playlist by about 3 to 1 in terms of follower count.Which just goes to show — albeit unscrupulously — that understanding and anticipating trends and listener behavior can go a long way toward building audiences in the streaming era.  OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comIf you haven’t downloaded 6MO, our Global Music Industry Data 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! 

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 GIf 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.comIf 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! 

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 AnalysisThe 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 & 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&B/Soul fills that role, on Deezer, it’s Latin & 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.OutroThat’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.comIf 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! 

Highlights  It’s official: We've launched 6MO, our first-ever Global Music Industry Data Report! We're thrilled to present you with our comprehensive view — from a music data perspective — of the first six months of 2019. Dig in to Part 1 with us 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 Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019.6MO Global Music Industry Data Report, Part 1: Semi-Annual AwardsIf you haven’t heard yet, we officially released our first-ever Global Music Industry Data Report on Tuesday, and the response has us very excited to dive into it with you guys here.Last week, we explained the 30-page structure: Semi-Annual Awards, Platform-Playlist Analysis, and Strategic Business Insights.Today, we’re tackling Part 1, our Chartmetric Semi-Annual Awards, which rank the top performing artists in terms of absolute and percentage-based growth across multiple metrics on June 30, 2019, the last day of the six-month period we tracked.By the way, if you’ve got the report in hand, feel free to scroll or flip along with us.First off, our Cross-Platform Performance Award, as you might imagine, revealed some familiar names in the Top 10 in terms of overall streaming and social popularity — from T. Swift to Shawn Mendes and Rihanna to Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande.However, the interesting stories were J Balvin at No. 2 and Daddy Yankee at No. 7, reflecting Latin’s growth outside of Latin America itself, and the late Avicii at No. 10, likely due to his strong catalog consistently driving 3M+ YouTube views daily, his April release of “SOS” with Aloe Blacc, and the full posthumous album release of Tim on June 6.When it came to YouTube Channel Views gain as of June 25, 2019, six of the Top 10 artists with the highest gains were primarily Spanish-speaking, showcasing the strength of both Latin content and also the popularity of the YouTube platform for Latin audiences.Keep in mind, however, that India-specific music charts didn’t launch until two weeks ago, so that data could very well change up the distribution in a big way.Stay tuned for our July to December report to see if 6MO months prove that to be the case!For Spotify Monthly Listener Gain as of June 30, 2019, collaborations were crucial to Lunay’s 557 percent and Jhay Cortez’s 521 percent lifts — not to mention Billy Ray Cyrus’ 3,032 percent increase as a result of his “Old Town Road” collab with Lil Nas X.On Twitter, Follower Gain was all about diversity, with three Korean groups, three Americans, two Brazilians, one Nigerian, and one Turkish rocker comprising the Top 10 percentage gains.And on our own platform, BTS won out on the Artist Follower front and Spotify curators dominated in terms of Playlist Followers. It would be an understatement to say that this is just the tip of the iceberg for Part 1, so please, keep digging into it, and let us know what else you find!Next up, we’re taking on Part 2, our Platform-Playlist Analysis, where we break down artist country market share and artist genre market share on Amazon, Apple, Deezer, and Spotify’s top 30 playlists.So, stay tuned for that!Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comBy the way, if you haven’t downloaded our report yet, you can find it all across our socials and in our show notes!Happy Wednesday, and we’ll see you on Friday for Part 2!

Highlights  For the past couple of months, we’ve been cooking up something big: the first iteration of our Global Music Industry Data Report, 6MO! With the help of music tech extraordinaire Cherie Hu, we give you the first taste of it 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, Sept. 27th, 2019.The Cherie Hu Preview-Review of Our Inaugural Global Music Industry Data ReportOver the last couple of months, we’ve been cooking up something that we think you’re going to like.On Wednesday, we launched the first edition of our Global Music Industry Data Report at an exclusive gathering in New York City, after which music tech extraordinaire Cherie Hu was kind enough to feature her insights in her weekly Water and Music newsletter.Because we’ll be publishing this comprehensive data report twice a year, we’ve given it the catchy title — at least we like to think so — of 6MO, aka six months. So, without further ado, what’s it all about?According to Cherie, 6MO “sheds light on the kinds of perspectives that we’re still missing by relying on incumbent charts like the Billboard Hot 100.”Because our approach is revenue-agnostic, we’re more interested in artists’ general online footprints than their sales numbers.We’re working with more than 20 data sources, including Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Wikipedia, and Facebook, and we pulled from 1.7M+ artists and 1.1M+ playlists worth of data.We’ve divided our report, which spans Jan. 1 to June 30, into three sections: Semi-Annual Awards, Platform-Playlist Analysis, and Strategic Business Insights.Our awards section tackles the top performing artists in terms of absolute and percentage-based growth across multiple metrics, including Cross-Platform Performance, YouTube Channel Views Gain, Spotify Monthly Listener Gain, Instagram Follower Gain, and more.Our platform-playlist section analyzes artist country and genre market share on the top 30 Amazon, Apple, Deezer, and Spotify playlists.Finally, our strategic insights section summarizes important concepts that we’ve developed this year, from trigger cities to the gender play gap and our top performing podcast episodes.If you want to get a head start on our January-June 6MO before its wide release next week, it’s available for an early digital download thanks to Cherie’s Water and Music newsletter!Either way, you’ll be able to read along when we take a deep dive into it here next week!Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Sept. 27th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  Obsessed with streaming? Rightfully so, but after almost a year of coverage on Chartmetric, let’s go over some useful US radio facts that may help your artist’s overall distribution strategy.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.Chartmetric’s social media handle is Chartmetric, no “S ”- follow us onTwitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook- we’re always posting useful music tidbits, we’d love to hear from you!DateThis is your Data Dump for Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019.Radio in the Streaming Era: US Radio Facts for Streaming ExpertsComing up on one year ago, Chartmetric added 300 US radio stations to our 20+ sources of music data.Why? Well, radio is still considered one of the major ways to break an artist into the mainstream here in the States, and to many, it remains a strong advantage of the major labels, who are well-networked in the radio community.You can check our blog article about it in the show notes, but for those who maybe never got a chance to learn about the world before streaming, we thought we’d take the time to review some basic radio facts to help you put it all in context.First, a radio spin does NOT equal a streaming play! Nowadays, we’re so used to looking at total streams on whatever platform, how many plays are coming from what playlist, or how many plays came from a user’s library...but nonetheless, each stream is just a one-to-one relationship with a listener.With radio, one spin can mean thousands of listeners, at the same time, and usually in the same geographic area! A one to many relationship is how terrestrial radio differentiates itself from streaming, and it requires a certain appreciation to realize that just because radio spin counts aren’t as big in quantity as streams in a given time period, they are much more geographically attributable, they’re time-stamped, and they play to many more people.On the many more people part, one term to be aware of is “AQH”, which stands for average quarter-hour persons, or the amount of unique listeners in a 15-minute period listening for at least 5 minutes.Have you ever been stuck in highway traffic and flipped through radio stations, only to hear commercials? Well, I bet it was around one quarter hour before or after the hour when that happened.Why? The reason is the way Nielsen Audio records AQH, because by playing commercials on the :15 and :45 minute marks, they maximize the period of time they play music (and thus, get the highest AQH possible). This raises their profile for advertisers wanting to buy time and more exposure on their station.The AM Drive during morning rush hour is primo ad time, so while 5-10AM is highly lucrative for radio stations, it’s probably not when your new song is going to get played. You probably have a better chance in the PMD (guess what that is), Evening or Overnight dayparts.Location-wise, New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago stations tend to have the highest AQH ratings, which makes sense given they’re the top three populated cities in the country.Another term you may have heard is “Radio Format”, and this loosely refers to the type of genres a station plays, and it’s really more of a way for advertisers to recognize a station’s listener demographics.Surely you’ve heard “Top 40”, and that also goes by Contemporary Hit Radio, or “CHR”, and it’s what you’d expect, the latest and greatest from mostly major labels.Country is another format, and of course it plays best in the South, but also a sizeable presence in other places like Chicago.Urban plays better in the Midwest/South/East and is made up of hip-hop and rap, while Rhythmic plays bigger in the West; a mix of Top 40 and Urban where R&B, dance, hip-hop, and pop all intermingle.Other formats like “Triple A”, Alternative and Hot Adult Contemporary exist as well, we invite you to check out the blog article to learn more. Many thanks to our data supplier RadioWave and Seth Keller for their expertise.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Wednesday, and we’ll see you on Friday!

2019-09-20 // Taylor Swift enjoys Chinese success on QQ Music, with R3HAB set to in the near future with Tencent Highlights  If the 2000s belonged to 50 Cent, the future belongs to Tencent. We’ll check out a few Western artists who are active in the Chinese market, and how the tech conglomerate may matter to them in the near future.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.Chartmetric’s social media handle is Chartmetric, no “S ”- follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook- we’re always posting fun music facts, we’d love to hear from you!DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, Sept. 20, 2019.Taylor Swift enjoys Chinese success on QQ Music, with R3HAB set to in the near futureMusic Business Worldwide yesterday reported on Tencent, the giant Chinese tech company responsible for running the massively popular WeChat messaging platform with over 1B users and related music streaming app QQ Music, with over 650M active monthly users. One piece highlighted how Tencent is reportedly in talks to buy 10 to 20% of Universal Music Group, in a move that would surely be a boon for all artists operating with the major label.Some already there don’t need it! Looking at the QQ Music Western chart for this week, one of their artists under the Republic Records imprint is already enjoying her access to Chinese music fans, an artist by the name of Taylor Swift.While Tay Tay isn’t in the Top 20 this week, she does have by far the most tracks on the 100 track chart, placing 17 tracks of her recent Lover album onto the list.This obviously suggests that her entire album is getting quite an amount of attention on the platform, rather than just a few hits like Camila Cabello at 3 tracks or Ed Sheeran at 2.She’s not the only artist with new album release doing well there however, as Post Malone placed seven of his 17-track album Hollywood’s Bleeding in the QQ Western Top 100 and showing that Chinese fans are into trap just as much as pop music.Someone who doesn’t show up on the QQ Chart this week but may be doing so very soon is Dutch-Moroccan DJ/producer R3HAB, who just signed to Tencent’s joint venture label with Sony, named Liquid State.The Hong-Kong based electronic-focused label must be excited to host the international artist’s content in the Chinese market, as he’s played at least five live shows on the mainland this year, the last three being in Shanghai, Harbin and Chengdu, according to Songkick data.R3HAB’s exposure on Spotify and YouTube has been mostly European, getting most of his streams from cities like Amsterdam, Oslo, Warsaw and Paris, but the electronic sound does indeed lend itself to a global audience, just like Liquid State “ambassador” Alan Walker can attest to.The British-Norwegian DJ has an almost 35% Instagram follower demographic from Asia, over 30% of them hailing from Indonesia and India alone and accounting for over 2M followers in those markets.So with Liquid State and Tencent now in his corner, it looks like R3HAB could very well start exhibiting Taylor Swift-like success there, because with over 83% of the Chinese music market controlled by Tencent, the promotional advantages will be plenty.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  Streaming might favor frontline singles, but some tracks buck the trend. Looking at Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and Deezer’s Top 100 charts, we examine what tracks and artists are able to ride the wave of longevity.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 Wednesday, Sept. 18th, 2019.Post Malone Leads Track Longevity on Streaming ChartsWhen it comes to streaming, we’re trained to think immediacy and expendability, because, let’s face it, those are the kinds of qualities that characterize today’s digital singles-driven industry.On the streaming charts, however, things aren’t that simple, and some tracks can ride out their Top 100 position for more than a year. Pulling up Spotify’s Daily Global Chart on our charts tab, for example, we can scroll down a little to see chart summaries according to many different variables, including “By Time on Chart.” Within Spotify’s Top 100, Post Malone’s “Rockstar” might only be sporting a No. 81 spot, but it’s been on the chart for 508 days — that’s almost a year and a half.If we extend the Daily Global Chart to include the next 100 tracks, “Closer,” by the Chainsmokers and Halsey, might be in a precarious position at No. 199, but the track has enjoyed some 1,103 days on Spotify’s Top 200.To be clear, that’s three years.Toggling Apple’s Top 100, at No. 58, Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” claims the top spot, in terms of time on chart, with 361 days, or just short of a year.Meanwhile, Amazon’s Top 100 features a four-way tie at 210 days. At No. 20, it’s “High Hopes,” by Panic! At The Disco.No. 41 is Bebe Rexha’s “Meant to Be (featuring Florida Georgia Line).”No. 56 is “Youngblood” by 5 Seconds of Summer.And No. 60 is “Better Now,” by, guess who? Post Malone.Interestingly, Deezer’s Top 100 has a six-way tie at 195 days.At No. 10, it’s “Con Calma” by Daddy Yankee and Snow, while No. 19 is “Calma” by Pedro Capó and Farruko — ¾ of whom are Puerto Rican who all like to keep it cool.No. 27 is once again Post Malone, but this time, with “Sunflower,” from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack.No. 66 is “Te Vi” by Piso 21 and Micro Tdh, No. 68 is “Adan Y Eva” by Paulo Londra, and No. 70 is “Giant” by Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man.So, while Amazon and Deezer’s track longevities might be a bit more evenly spread, they’re also significantly lower than the longest lasting tracks on Apple’s and Spotify’s charts.Another takeaway here is that Posty has managed to keep tracks from two separate releases, Beerbongs & Bentleys and the Spider-Man soundtrack, relevant — and that’s irrespective of his new album, Hollywood’s Bleeding, dominating the top of those same charts.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Sept. 18th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Wednesday, and we’ll see you on Friday!

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 VelocityLooking 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.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  When was the last time you got your face melted with some heavy metal? Well, distributor TuneCore says it was probably during 2018 and American alt-metal group Tool says it’s right now on the Billboard 200 chart.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.Chartmetric’s social media handle is Chartmetric, no “S ”- follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook- we’re always posting cool music tidbits for your knowledge! And here’s more.DateThis is your Data Dump for Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019.Tool, Metal’s Growth, and the Future of the AlbumYesterday, digital distributor TuneCore released some Q1 2019 statistics stating that $83M USD was earned by its artists, bringing their total distribution revenue to over $1.5B all-time.However, one of its finer details caught the eye of some music outlets like Consequence of Sound: the Heavy metal genre sported a 154% increase in streams and downloads in 2018, outdoing the next four genres J-Pop at a 133%, R&B/Soul at 68% and K-Pop at 58%.While the 2018 data might feel a little outdated, how about this week of September 14th, when American alternative metal band Tool debuted in the #1 Billboard 200 album chart like they were a Billie Eilish / Drake super-group. Tool’s new album “Fear Inoculum” breaks all of the pop and hip-hop’s rules, as it was 13 years in the making for the progressive metal act and according to Billboard:“...a now-rare example of a No. 1 album without…” a concert redemption offer, pre-order promotion, or merchandise bundle.Tool amazingly relegated Taylor Swift’s “Lover” album to the #2 slot on the Billboard chart, and the band is currently ranked 679th overall according to Chartmetric’s Cross-Platform Performance ranking as of yesterday.Tool’s Neighboring Artists who are ranked similarly include Reggaeton artist Arcangel, Pop crooner Alec Benjamin and Rap duo Rae Sremmurd.Now given Tool’s smashing album success this week, you’d expect to see them similarly trouncing their fellow artists with similar music metrics.However, the opposite is the case: Tool only wields 830K Spotify followers, while Rae Sremmurd has over 5.1M and Arcangel has over 3.8M.Similarly, both artists also trounce Tool with regard to Spotify Monthly Listeners -- the rap and reggaeton stars are collecting almost 11M unique streamers on the Swedish platform while Tool only has half that.But that’s why it’s important to take into account more hits-driven artists vs. album-driven artists: Tool’s fans have long known they don’t go by industry rules and that’s part of why they love them.Six of the new album’s ten tracks clock in over 10 minutes each and the packaged CD released with a 4-inch HD screen inside of it to play its visual arts-driven music videos to their fans that bought it.So while no single Tool songs are appearing on Apple Music or Amazon track charts, the album sits at No. 14 on Apple’s Album charts and leading their Rock one. They also take No. 17 on Amazon’s Album charts and No. 1 on its Rock chart.This breaks the normal correlation between each platform’s track and album charts...which just goes to show that Tool is doing things their way, in a big way.As most music markets continue to digitize away from the physical world, Tool is showing that while the album format still has its charms, they are likely also benefitting from a   rising tide where metal fans are digitizing themselves.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Wednesday, and we’ll see you on Friday!

Highlights  Howdy! Today, we’re going Country, looking at the CMAs’ full list of nominations and making some educated guesses about who might win based on streaming and social data.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. 6th, 2019.Data Predictions for the 2019 Country Music Association AwardsSaddle up, because we’re heading to Nashville, figuratively speaking, to check out what’s going on with this year’s CMAs. Based on streaming and social data, can we make some educated guesses about who might win at this year’s ceremony?12 categories comprise the full range of awards, including Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Musical Event of the Year, Music Video of the Year, and New Artist of the Year, among others.Maren Morris leads the pack with a total of six noms, and if we filter our “Artists” tab for the Country genre, Morris comes up at No. 3 in terms of Chartmetric rank, so she’s gotta at least win one, right?Her track “Girl,” which is nominated for Single of the Year, alongside Blake Shelton’s “God’s Country,” has a good shot.While neither are currently charting on Apple Music or Spotify, if we filter for genre on Amazon’s Track Charts, Shelton has the edge over Morris with a No. 5 rank compared to No. 12 for Morris.But Shelton’s Chartmetric rank is No. 7 compared to Morris’ No. 3, so this one’s going to be close — a real tossup, if data has anything to say about the matter.Overall, Morris also has some competition from Carrie Underwood, who is up for an impressive three awards. When it comes to Album of the Year, though, Morris leads with an 81 Spotify popularity score for her album “Girl,” compared to 65 for Underwood’s “Cry Pretty.”Morris’ closest competition in this category, if we’re going strictly by streaming performance? Thomas Rhett’s “Center Point Road” at 79.Looking at the Nashville “Cities” page, Rhett also has the seventh highest Spotify Monthly Listener count for the Tennessee capital where the CMAs will be held.And then there’s the category everyone’s wondering about: Musical Event of the Year.The category is interestingly described on the CMAs website as “a collaboration of two or more people either or all of whom are known primarily as a Country artist.” After being quietly stripped of his brief Country label by Billboard, Lil Nas X can at least find solace in the fact that his “Old Town Road” collab with Billy Ray Cyrus landed a Musical Event of the Year nom at this year’s CMAs.We probably don’t need to go back over how big of a viral sensation this surprise crossover hit was, so we’ll just say that, as far as Chartmetric rank goes, Lil Nas X is sitting at No. 32 out of all 1.7M+ artists that we track, and Billy Ray Cyrus is at No. 1 if we filter our “Artists” tab for the Country genre.So, even if “Old Town Road” doesn’t win the CMA award, I think we can all agree it really was the musical event of the year … so far. OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, Sept. 6th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  Not all breaking artists are new artists, not all platforms have the same up and comers, and not a day more should pass until you check out all the viral talent we’re discovering on our new A&R tool.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.Chartmetric’s social media handle is 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 Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019.Breaking in Our Newly Updated A&R DashboardDo you like discovering new music, but you want more than just a New Music Friday playlist? Do you like discovering new music, but you don’t necessarily want to be out 7 nights a week in the clubs either?Well, come check out the next version of Chartmetric’s A&R tool, now live on the platform.The newest, shiniest updates include:Several windows of relative change….for example, there is now a 7-day, 30-day and 60-day absolute value and growth change %For example, if I click on the Instagram Followers tab, Chartmetric scans over all the IG profiles we have in our 1.7M artist database, and as of yesterday, pulled out over 38K artists who showed remarkable growtih in that particular metric.Feel-good, indiecoustica troubadour Andrew Simple comes out on top here, with a 1700% increase in his IG follower base to 8.8K, from 30 days ago.“But what if I’m not into indiecoustica?” you may say, well here’s what else is really neat about this new A&R tool version:We have established our own Chartmetric parent genre system, containing 20 major genres such as “Pop”, “Rock, Punk, Metal” and “Rap & Hip-Hop”.And once you pick that, it goes even further with the sub-genre filter, which uses over 1.8K specific genres to really get to the type of sonics you want to discover, such as “Latin jazz” or “electro swing” or if you’re really looking for it, “symphonic black metal”.If I narrow down to Rap & Hip-Hop, I get US rapper Gerald Walker as the #1, but if I apply the sub-genre “Alternative Hip-Hop”, I get Benny the Butcher as the #1 with a 21% increase himself in IG followers.“What if I’m curious about Australian artists, and I value YouTube the most?” That’s what our Artist Country filter is for, which contains virtually all the world’s countries, allowing you to surgically find artists according to the biographical data we have.And then you simply click into “YouTube Channel Views”, and there you’ll have neo-psychedelic Aussie band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at #1 with a 28% increase in views in the past month.What’s a couple of cool things so far that we’ve discovered?There’s not a lot of crossover between platforms, which can open up your mind on who is doing best on which platform...and this also provides a way to focus energy once an artist hits that “breaking” threshold: Where do they need to focus their attention next?We’d also pay attention to the First Release and Last Release Columns, because a breaking artist doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a new artist.For example, Fleetwood Mac’s YouTube channel saw an increase of 6.2M views in the last 30 days and 11.5M in the last 60 days, putting them in the 10th spot, as of Sept. 2.Their first release was in the ‘60s.If you’re in the catalog game, you’re in luck, but if you’re looking for the next big thing to sign, the first release column can help you move on to other artists quickly.Much more to discover as we dig into the data ourselves, but for now, have at it and let us know what you think!Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Wednesday, and we’ll see you on Friday!

Highlights  Don’t call it a comeback: This week, the VMAs wrapped and the CMAs dropped their noms, but do the ceremonies even matter to an artist’s bottom line? Let’s dive into Missy Elliott’s data and see.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 30th, 2019.The Music Awards Effect: Bump or Bust?With the VMAs wrapping and the CMAs dropping their noms this week, the ceremonies grabbed a lot of headlines, but what exactly does that mean for artist success? Missy Elliott’s highly anticipated return and long overdue recognition with both an electrifying performance and also a gracious acceptance of MTV’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at Monday night’s VMAs should offer the perfect case study as we look forward to the 53rd Annual Country Music Association Awards in November.While she’s been workin’ it since the late ‘90s and even late ‘80s, Elliott’s Super Bowl halftime performance in 2015 had some youngsters thinking she was a new artist on the verge of blowing up.Those in the know had to flip it and reverse it on the younguns to let ‘em know about her four wins and 22 nominations at the Grammy Awards, her 30 million records sold in the U.S. and status as the best-selling female rapper in Nielsen Music history (as of 2017), and her history-making induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame this year — the first female rapper ever!With her surprise Iconology album release last week and this week’s VMA-driven visibility, do the data say comeback or consistency?It really depends what data sources we’re talking about.For an artist like Elliott, whose streaming numbers have consistently been on the incline since the beginning of the year, this awards ceremony doesn’t appear to have made much of a splash.Elliott’s daily Spotify follower change has generally hovered at around 700, bringing her from 922K on Jan. 1, 2019, to 1.1M on Aug. 29, 2019.Save for a minor dip in March, her Spotify popularity has generally been on the upswing from 76 on Jan. 1, 2019, to 79 on Aug. 29, 2019.The lowest it got was 73 — so not much variation at all.But the behavior of her social media growth tells another story.On Instagram, Twitter, and Wikipedia, we see a dramatic spike in followers and views — most significantly around her VMAs appearance.On Insta, from Thursday, Aug. 22, the date of her album release, to Monday, Aug. 26, her daily change in followers jumped from 2K to 15K.Following her VMAs appearance, however, that daily change spiked to almost 42K.There’s a similar pattern on Twitter, where Friday and Saturday gave her a 3K daily follower increase, up from low to mid hundreds, and following her VMAs appearance, she shot up to around 6KThe music awards effect is perhaps the most pronounced when it comes to Elliott’s daily Wikipedia views, which have hovered between 2K and 5K since the start of the year.Last Thursday, on the day of her album drop, however, that number almost reached 33K. On Monday, the night of the VMAs? Almost 150K.So, at least with an artist as influential as Missy Elliott, a big music awards moment could lead to a big bump in social relevancy, even if that same artist might not see quite as much volatility in their streaming data.As we edge nearer to the CMAs, where Maren Morris and Lil Nas X are the big standouts this year, let’s see if the same trends follow suit.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, August 30th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  Know thy neighbor, you may have been told, and to that us music data nerds would say, know thy artist neighbor...we’ll do so with rapper Pusha T through Chartmetric’s Neighboring Artists feature.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 Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019.New Kids on the Block: Identifying Pusha T's Artist NeighborsVirginia Beach veteran rapper Pusha T, dropped a new song, “Sociopath,” on Monday.The Kanye West-produced track featuring Kash Doll was leaked early, but Complex Magazine’s "Best Rapper Alive" of 2018 is still keeping it moving.As of yesterday, Pusha T’s Chartmetric rank was at 729th out of the 1.7M artists we track globally.He has 8.2M SoundCloud followers, 140M total YouTube channel views and a Spotify Monthly Listener count at 3.8M.Now, if we break out Pusha T’s Artist Neighbors by his Chartmetric rank alone...To the north, we’ve got Singer-songwriter god Sara Bareilles ranked 728th, and Irish indie band Two Door Cinema Club in 725th place.To the south of Push, there’s American pop rockers Cage the Elephant ranked 731st and Australian rockers The Vines in 732nd place.Would Push ever do a cross-genre track with these acts who are at similar popularity levels in the digital world? It wouldn’t be his first: his guest verse on Justin Timberlake’s 2002 solo album debut “Like I Love You” or 2017 guest on Linkin Park’s “Good Goodbye” with grime rapper Stormzy have both accumulated tens of millions of spins on Spotify alone.But if we filter by genre cluster-which through Chartmetric’s data science magic we find to be rap, trap music, pop, pop rap, southern hip hop-Pusha T’s Artist Neighbors now turn into:Brooklyn’s Desiigner at 623rd place and Atlanta’s Playboi Carti at 591st place above Push.And below, is Toronto’s PARTYNEXTDOOR at 859 and Diddy himself at 889.So if Push were looking for a more similar sound in vein to plan a tour with or collab with, he could easily generate some creative ideas this way.Our data science skills are growing strong with the Force back at Chartmetric HQ, so be sure to keep an eye out for more super-cool and hopefully super-useful features to come.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Wednesday, and we’ll see you on Friday!

Highlights  Follow us around the world as we examine T. Swift’s album drop, remember a Mexican cumbia legend, and recognize Korea’s finest through the market coverage lens.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 23rd, 2019.Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’, Celso Piña’s Passing, and Monsta X’s Big WinWe’re going around the world today, covering T. Swift’s fresh album drop, the late Mexican cumbia legend Celso Piña, and Monsta X’s multiple wins at the SOBA Awards.Taylor Swift’s “Lover”Leading up to the highly anticipated album release, Swift’s Chartmetric  rank is holding strong at No. 3 and and her Spotify Popularity Index is at 93 out of 100.Her “Lover” lyric video is No. 3 on top YouTube playlist Popular Music Videos but, interestingly, not on TikTok’s Top 200 Tracks at all.Still, #LoverTOMORROW was trending on Twitter on Thursday, and Swift made headlines with her upcoming CBS Sunday Morning interview, where she reportedly claims that she’ll be re-recording her entire catalog -- you know the one that Scooter Braun and Ithaca Holdings now hold rights to.Talk about a metadata nightmare.But I digress, scrolling down to the charts section of T. Swift’s profile on Chartmetric“You Need to Calm Down,” which was released on June 14, has been performing best on Amazon, Shazam, and Deezer charts.“The Archer,” which was released on July 23, is, comparatively speaking, not doing well across platforms, and it’s slowly sinking on the charts, in fact.“Lover,” released Aug. 16, is on the rise on Shazam, and it generally scores somewhere between the other two singles on the charts.An interesting way to track her regional success -- especially now that her album is hot off of the press -- is to look at top countries and cities by market coverage.In other words, the ratio of listeners or views an artist has reached over the maximum available listeners in the region.For Spotify cities by monthly listeners, for instance, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Bangkok, Arlington (TX), and Minneapolis are Swift’s current top cities by market coverage, giving her plenty of saturation in Southeast Asia.For YouTube Views by country, Northern Mariana Islands, Canada, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden rule, truly marking her international status.And for YouTube views by cities, Sugar Land (TX), Quincy (MA), San Ramon (CA), Alexandria (VA), Brighton (NY), and San Marcos (CA) are all definitively American cities winning out here.Celso Piña’s PassingNow, heading South a bit, we change gears for some tragic news: Mexican Cumbia legend Celso Piña died of a heart attack on Thursday. He was 66.According to the Los Angeles Times, “Piña was a pioneer, known for his fusion of cumbia and tropical sounds as a base, combining them with all kinds of popular genres from the north, to sonidero, ska, reggae, rap, hip-hop, among others.”He first came to prominence in Monterrey, Mexico, and went on to snag Grammy Award nominations in the Best Contemporary Tropical Album and Best Alternative Artist categories in 2002.His last solo studio album, “Sin Fecha de Caducidad,” is a decade old now, but he still maintains almost a million monthly Spotify listeners. His top cities by market coverage on Spotify and YouTube are pretty exclusively Mexican, and his top countries are largely Latin American, but the USA does pull the No. 2 spot when it comes to market coverage for YouTube views by country.We’ll continue to keep the memory and the music alive, Chief of the Bell. Rest in peace.Monsta X’s Big WinSpinning the globe again, we land in South Korea, where Day 1 of the Soribada Best K-Music Awards, aka the SOBA Awards, wrapped on Thursday.Based on data from Korean peer-to-peer file sharing service Soribada, the ceremony recognizes some of the top Korean performers.This year, hip-hop boy band Monsta X were standout stars, winning Best Artist of the Year and the Soribada New Wave Award and trending on Twitter as a result.It was perfect timing for their Aug. 21 album release, Phenomenon.Similar to Piña’s hometown market coverage data bias, Monsta X’s Spotify monthly listeners and YouTube views by cities are largely East or Southeast Asian -- especially Korean, naturally.With YouTube views by country, however, Sweden takes No. 2, Germany No. 4, Bulgaria  No. 5, and Estonia No. 6. Looks like Monsta X might be able to add a few stops to their upcoming world tour?OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, August 23rd, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  What better A&R team to have then over 150M smartphones Shazaming every month around the globe? Let’s check out new Apple Music’s Shazam-powered Discovery Top 50 chart/playlist.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, Aug. 22, 2019. Unpacking Shazam's New Discovery Top 50 PlaylistThis week on Variety, Apple Music made some superhero-sized news with the reveal of its Shazam-powered Discovery Top 50 playlist, which aims to spot “emerging and up-and-coming” artists based on data from 11 countries.According to Music Ally, the global chart is based on Shazam data from the US, UK, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Russia for now, and is a way for Apple to spot and deliver trends worldwide.Apple bought Shazam in September 2018 for an estimated $400 million, and this is likely one of many cross-app data integrations to come. Shazam Discovery Top 50 updates every Tuesday, and appears to be exclusive to frontline material, though they’re not all necessarily new releases.Clicking through to the playlist profile on Chartmetric, we can see that seven of the 50 tracks, were released in 2018, and five of those were released more than a year ago.For example, American Lucy Dacus’ anti-Americana track “Yours & Mine” currently sits in the No. 13 spot. But after Sept. 2, it will pass the 18-month catalog date, which is the industry’s traditional rule of thumb.A few weeks after that, Dutch producer Mason’s itchy-footed track “Dance, Shake, Move,” currently at No. 34, will join her.Interestingly, there also appears to be some genre and geographic method to the madness.Unlike Apple’s other top playlists, EDM rules at 11 percent of the Shazam playlist’s genre distribution, Progressive House follows at 8 percent, and House at almost 3 percent, giving the larger Electronic & Dance genre almost a quarter of the market share this week.The next biggest segment is all Latin, including Pagode, Música Popular Brasileira, Samba, Forro, and Reggaeton-each with nearly 6 percent of the distribution-and Bossanova following at almost 3 percent.With the exception of the Puerto Rican-originated reggaeton sound, these genres are all Brazil-based.Considering that next to the US’ 30 percent artist country distribution on the playlist, Brazil comes in second with 15 percent and Puerto Rico comes in third with 11 percent, there’s clearly a geographical alignment with the types of music presented.Going another level deeper into the tracks themselves, we can expose more of why some of these songs are popping up on the Discovery Top 50 radar.For example, Kosovo-based DJ Regard appears in the No. 4 position in the Shazam-fed chart, but his EDM track “Ride It” also happens to be trending on TikTok.It was 40th yesterday on the TikTok Top Tracks chart with 1.9M TikToks using the track, many times the users simply doing a fun dance or showing lists of why they’re single, different, or annoyed with something.While the Shazam Discovery Top 50 playlist is only currently pulling from 11 countries, it will be interesting to see if EDM and Latin music continues to outnumber Pop and Hip-Hop tracks as the playlist’s country inputs increase.So if you feel like benefiting from 20 million Shazams a day, 1 billion app downloads, and users in 190 countries, check out Apple’s freshest playlist and welcome your newest addition to your A&R team.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com And article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Thursday, and we’ll see you tomorrow!