HighlightsDrake took home a bag of Billboard Music Awards, but Ozuna and Lauren Daigle represent for the Latin and CCM fansMission   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.FYI - the Chartmetric team will be in Nashville for the Music Biz Conference next week, so if you’re there, please say hello at our Wednesday night panel, but if not, the podcast will be back on Friday May 10th.DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday May 3rd 2019.Billboard Music Awards 2019: Ozuna & Lauren DaigleThe 2019 Billboard Music Awards, or BBMAs, happened on Wednesday night, and Drake took home the most awards with 12 and Cardi B showing up in 18 categories with 21 nominations total.As a US-based company with the finalists determined by their own private award process, it would make sense that Billboard heavily decorated two of the biggest chart-topping artists in the English-speaking West.But what about winners that are also big in their own right, but just catering to a different segment of the population?Two of those winners are Puerto Rico’s Ozuna and Louisiana native Lauren Daigle. Ozuna is now one of Latin music’s biggest reggaetón artists and Daigle has risen to become a star in the Contemporary Christian Music genre.It’s certainly arguable that neither artist should be put into a box, so to say, but the nature of the Billboard Award categories they won in- Top Latin Artist/Album/Song for Ozuna and Top Christian Artist/Album/Song for Daigle- certainly encourage that kind of thinking.So in the data, it’s interesting to see how these conceptualizations play out, and where it doesn’t seem to matter much.For example, with Ozuna, his mostly Spanish language content obviously plays towards Latin-American areas: his top five Spotify monthly listener cities are Mexico City, Santiago, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Lima.With Daigle, hers are Dallas, Paris, Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles. A 2015 Gallup poll found that about 75% of the US identify as Christian, so it would make sense that Daigle plays best stateside, but a strong trend in Paris over the last few months is curious.In the last three months alone, she grew her unique monthly listeners over 400% to 105K, while in the same time period, the other four top cities grew less than 30%.Evidence of her success in the French-speaking capital is the fact that she was added to Paris-based Deezer Music’s #1 playlist- Les titres du moment with 9.8M fans- on April 6th, almost as a recognition that her popularity was cross-platform and not limited to just Spotify.For Ozuna, while most of his top YouTube countries are Spanish-speaking (such as Mexico, Argentina and Colombia), his second biggest country is the United States at almost 16% of his Daily Views at 2.8M.With the 2017 US Census reporting that 13% or almost 40M Americans speak Spanish, it makes sense that even a mostly English-speaking country outranks other Spanish-speaking countries due to sheer population size. For example, Ozuna’s third biggest YouTube country, Argentina, has a total population of 45M, which is only slightly bigger than the US Spanish-speaking population at almost 40M.So all of this to say that when targeting an artist’s demographic, it usually pays off to understand their market size and where they are, because some data trends are expected but sometimes, quite unexpected.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday May 3rd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Friday, have a great weekend! We’ll either see you in Nashville or here on the podcast next Friday! 

HighlightsCountry superstars headlined this past weekend’s Stagecoach festival in Indio, California...but who played the early afternoon slots and what does their data look like?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 2nd 2019.Stagecoach & Non-HeadlinersStagecoach, “California’s Country Music Festival”, wrapped up this past weekend in Indio, on the same grounds that Coachella had been on the couple weeks prior.While superstars Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean headlined each day of the weekend festival, what about the non-headliners? Who are they and how are they doing?Billed last and in the smallest print on the Stagecoach lineup poster, Becca Mancari, Charley Crockett and Ruby Boots had their chance to make their mark in early afternoon performance slots on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively.Ruby Boots is a Nashville-based Australian with a more edgy indie rock/Americana sound and seems to be the most junior of the three, with 16K monthly listeners and 2K followers on Spotify. Mancari sports a softer, acoustic folk persona and has the most monthly listeners at 183K and the best listener to follower ratio at 45.Native Texan Charley Crockett goes for a retro album art look to accompany his Southern blues sound, and has the most followers at 17K and the highest Spotify Popularity Index score at 51.An interesting takeaway emerges when looking at all three artists’ current playlists: Spotify seems to be the only platform really giving emerging country artists editorial attention.Mancari, for example, is currently on 10 Spotify editorial playlists, including Infinite Acoustic at 2M follows, Acoustic Love at 1.4M and Evening Acoustic at 1.3M. Ruby Boots and Crockett are each on four editorial playlists themselves, while all three are on anywhere from 53 to 71 playlists total on the platform if including third-party curators.Apple Music and Deezer however, feature none of the emerging country artists on any editorial playlists, which suggests less of a sensitivity towards the genre’s budding talent.Amazon Music is somewhere in the middle: the tech giant’s platform includes all three artists on their official Stagecoach 2019 playlist, while Mancari features on Best Folk Songs of 2017 and Autumn Folk Sunset, while Crockett features on New in Blues and Americana Soul.In terms of Stagecoach effects, Ruby Boots seems to have gained the most from her live performance: she saw a 74% increase in Spotify monthly listeners in Los Angeles since the day before last weekend, while Mancari only saw 20% and Crockett saw the least at 14%.However, what the three artists all have in common is Instagram follower demographics: their male to female balance is about half, while their majority ethnicity is mostly White / Caucasian in the 80 and 90 percentiles.Congratulations to these three artists on their big Stagecoard weekend and hopefully we’ll see more of them in the months to come.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday May 2nd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Thursday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsMeme check: It’s May 1st, and the NSYNC track “It’s Gonna Be Me” becomes a thing again for 24 hoursMission   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 Wednesday May 1st 2019.Meme check: It’s Gonna Be MeFor all the 80s & 90s children out there, we knew where American superstar Justin Timberlake came from, and it’s name was NSYNC.The boy band extraordinaire enjoyed many a hit in their day...but none of them have risen to such internet meme-dom as the track “It’s Gonna Be Me”, off their 2000 album No Strings Attached.According to knowyourmeme, it all started in 2012 when a Tumblr post associated the song with the beginning of said month and a picture of Timberlake in his infamous curly hair era. The meme is essentially highlighting the way the singer accented the word “me” to where it sounded like the month of “May”. It’s enough of a thing that the American appliance company Maytag is using it in a brilliant ad campaign this year entitled- you guessed it- #itsgonnabemaytagSince late 2017, it’s enjoyed a Spotify Popularity Index in the 60s range out of a 100 scale, which is one of *NSYNC’s more popular tracks alongside the mid-tempo “Bye Bye Bye” and ballad “This I Promise You”.Throughout 2018, “It’s Gonna Be Me” averaged a YouTube daily view count in the 40-50K range. Around May 1st, it peaked to about 5x its norm to 260K views, and then plateaued out to its average within a few days. It currently sits at 94.7M total views.An interesting behavior in its YouTube views is that it doesn’t exhibit the “weekend spike” that usually occurs with popular music. Its pattern actually looks quite random, which could be an interesting insight into how the public interacts with various types of hits according to release date.Current Top 40 hits will most likely show strong weekend bumps due to their being included on the most high-profile playlists that get played over the weekend, while older catalog hits are listened to at more random intervals and less susceptible to day of week behaviors.“It’s Gonna Be Me” lives out its legacy on various 90s and 2000s best hits playlists, the most popular one being Spotify’s “All Out 90s” at 4.2M followers with the track in the 33rd position out of 90.On radio since Sept 2018, it’s only got a handful of daily spins among the most influential 300 US radio stations, though the NE states seem to still love the track.The Nassau-Suffolk, New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania markets have both aired “It’s Gonna Be Me” 65 and 51 times over the past eight months, and that hasn’t even included May!So if you’re looking for a social media wave to ride today, make sure you hashtag properly, because hey #itsgonnabemayOutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday May 1st 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy May, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsTechnique Tuesday: The Game of Thrones album drops on Friday and we delve into its tracks’ playlist distributionMission   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 Tuesday April 30th 2019.Technique Tuesday: For The Throne albumLast Friday, HBO’s Game of Thrones worked with Sony’s Columbia Records to release the 14-track album For The Throne, featuring music inspired by the massive series across pop, rap, Latin, rock and folk genres.Three of the tracks were released earlier in the month as teasers to the full-length album, and a few days in, it’s a great time to take a pulse of how its performing in the market.We’ll do that by examining how the popularity among its tracks are distributed via their playlisting distribution.The fan reaction on Spotify and Apple Music seem to be strong: if measured by total current playlists that the tracks are included on, For the Throne was on ~650 playlists on Spotify and ~130 on Apple Music.To put that in perspective, it beats out the Greatest Showman soundtrack, which is on ~600 playlists on Spotify, but it wasn’t quite enough for others.For example, the Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse soundtrack which was released in December of last year is currently on ~2200 Spotify playlists and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody is on an astonishing ~8900, though that soundtrack benefits from Queen’s tracks pre-existing for decades before they were included in the film’s album.It’s worth noting that these albums are just like normal album releases in that they usually depend on a leading track to market the rest of the collection.For For The Throne, that track is “Power is Power” by SZA, The Weeknd and Travis Scott, which is on 436 Spotify playlists, including the #17 position on Today’s Top Hits, while the next most playlisted track on the album is “Too Many Gods” by A$AP Rocky and Joey Bada$$ at 128 playlists, which is a decent dropoff.The Greatest Showman soundtrack, which is unique among this group as it showcases the fact that its parent film is actually a musical, also shows a fairly well-distributed playlist dropoff among its three most playlisted tracks as they go from ~320, to ~290, then to ~150 playlists.With the Spiderman soundtrack however, the dropoff is much higher, as Post Malone and Swae Lee’s massively popular “Sunflower” track is on ~1,850 playlists while the next track is only on ~200.Now if a soundtrack is nothing more than a marketing device for its main product, maybe popularity distribution among its tracks is not such a big deal for the TV or film producers, but for the artists involved, it at least shows how much traction the actual music has, as the artists likely got involved for the exposure more than anything else.The editorial playlist support is strong on Spotify, with 56 of those lists containing the album tracks, to include Today’s Top Hits at 23M followers, Teen Party at 3.9M and New Music Friday at 3.1M.Apple Music’s editorial support however is much weaker, with only one A-List playlist listing any of the album’s tracks, and only three of their A&R-focused  “Breaking” playlists (such as Breaking Alternative or Breaking Latino) doing the same.So while the marketing support from the actual platforms can be touch and go, it should at least be comforting for For The Throne’s artists, to know that its fans on Spotify at least are getting their GoT fix via their earbuds, in between episodes.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Tuesday April 30th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsIt’s New Music Friday Monday: Deezer’s Brand New UK playlist is all about pop this week and dominates Spotify’s New Music Friday playlists by follower count.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 April 29th 2019.Deezer: Brand New UK playlistAlways astute at differentiating segments of their international user base, Deezer  separates several of their New Music Friday playlists by country. So much so that their #3 most followed playlist overall is actually one of them: the Brand New UK playlist.At 5.9M fans, this frontline-focused playlist is curated by Adam - their UK & Ireland Editor, who also selects the Deezer Hits UK playlist and Trending Ireland playlists at 334K and 170K fans respectively.Over the past year, Brand New UK exhibits a follower count history that curiously looks like a publicly traded stock price: going up for a few months, then going down for a few months.It’s currently on an upswing, gaining over 500 fans over the past month, but it’s certainly different from the steady and rarely-wavering follower growth that most of Spotify’s top playlists have shown in recent years.Nevertheless, Brand New UK remains one of Deezer’s flagship playlists and this week, is 32% pop, with 31 of the 60 tracks containing the tag.Both rap and EDM come next with 7 genre tags each in this week’s list.43% of the artists represented are from the United States, while 33% are from the UK. The rest of the list features artists from eight other territories including Sweden, Brazil, France.Leading off in the #1 position is veteran grime rapper Stormzy with “Vossi Bop”, whose music video features actor Idris Elba and marks Stormzy’s first solo release since 2017.Taylor Swift takes the #2 slot with Panic! At The Disco’s Brendon Urie for the track “ME!” and Lauv’s new single “Drugs & The Internet” slides into third place.Brand New UK vs. other NMF playlistsComparing with Spotify’s equivalent playlist, New Music Friday, the selection of artists based on nationality becomes quite clear early on.On Brand New UK for example, Stormzy leads the top spot while on Spotify’s globally-focused list his track is in 46th place in the 99-track list.Taylor Swift’s track position doesn’t change much on either playlist, because well, she’s Taylor Swift, but on Spotify we don’t see our next UK artist until the #12 position with FKA twigs’ “Cellophane”.On Deezer, we already get our second UK artist with Nigerian-British Not3s in the #4 spot, who doesn’t show up at all in Spotify’s New Music Friday.Genre-wise, the sounds of both playlists are still similar, as New Music Friday has the same top three genres: pop, rap and EDM. However, NMF skews heavier towards rap, as 21 of its tracks are tagged as such, when Deezer’s list only had 7.And to make it all more complicated, Spotify has another playlist called New Music Friday UK, which looks much more like Deezer’s Brand New UK, as it has the same top 3 tracks for example.Spotify’s version has a majority of UK artists, with 30 of them present in its 86-song list, with US artists coming in second place with 29 artists.Despite all of that however, Deezer still wins out as its 5.9M fan playlist far outnumbers Spotify’s 709K followers for its UK NMF playlist, and even its global NMF at 3.1M.So if you’re looking to keep up on Global Release Friday for the latest in UK music, check out Brand New UK on Deezer! OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday April 29th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Monday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsRap maintains its stronghold in Apple Music’s Top 100 Albums yesterday in the US storefrontMission   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 April 26th 2019.Apple Music: Top 100 AlbumsRap and Apple Music continue their close relationship on yesterday’s Top 100 Albums chart for the US.Across All Genres, however, it was Beyoncé that was on top in the #1 slot with her album Lemonade released back in April 2016.While her Coachella live performance album HOMECOMING was released only last week, that only took the #7 spot yesterday.If you’re surprised Lemonade made such a strong debut on the chart three years after its release, it’s because it wasn’t even available! Her acclaimed album was available only on Tidal prior to Tuesday, and so coinciding with the release of HOMECOMING, it made the Apple album chart very much a Queen B affair.Past that, rap by far had the most genre tags present in the Top 100 album list, with 37 tags, while Pop was in second at 9 tags, and R&B/Soul was in third at 4 tags.The #2 spot in the album chart was taken by Charlotte, North Carolina rapper DaBaby with his most recent album Baby on Baby released in February and spending 54 days so far on the chart.The #3 position yesterday belonged to Billie Eilish, who’s month-old album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? continues its glorious run on the Apple Music platform.The Apple Top 100 Albums chart is currently favoring older albums, as 46 of them are more than six months old.In fact, only six of the 100 are new releases this week, Schoolboy Q’s Crash Talk being the highest ranking in the #6 position.Once albums make it onto the Top 100, they mostly stay for about 1-6 months, as 47 of yesterday’s bunch spent that amount of time on the Top 100 so far.Thomas Rhett, Morgan Wallen and Brooks and Dunn represent country in the #71, 91 and 92 positions, while Bad Bunny and Aventura are in the #27 and 34 spots for Latin.And worry not, K-pop fans, BTS’ latest album did make the chart at #23 with MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday April 26th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Friday, have a great weekend! 

HighlightsWhat’s Los Angeles listening to right now? We’ll dive into their Shazam, YouTube, radio, Songkick and Spotify preferences 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 April 25th 2019.Cities: Los AngelesLet’s play a game!New feature: CitiesOutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday April 25th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Thursday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsIt’s Winner Wednesday: Rap, Latin and K-pop rule the Top 30 Trending Music Videos on YouTube this weekMission   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 Wednesday April 24th 2019.Winner Wednesday: YouTube Trending Music VideosThe Top Songs on YouTube in the US this week aren’t too surprising, with Lil Nas X continuing to dominate the video streaming platform with an additional 48.2M views for “Old Town Road” feat. Billy Ray Cyrus.But if you switch over to the Trending Music Videos, things get a little more interesting: rapper Lil Dicky’s “Earth” takes the #1 Trending YouTube Music Video spot.The Philadelphia rapper who frequently releases comedic rap songs with high-profile collaborations does it again, this time for Mother Earth.Released on April 18th before Earth Day, the video addressing climate change had 34M views as of yesterday.Rap power couple Offset and Cardi B took the #2 spot with “Clout”, while K-pop’s BTS takes the #3 position with their still-hot single featuring Halsey, “Boy With Luv”.Latin music took 5 of the top 30 spots, including singles from Becky G & Maluma, Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee, but the highlight is probably the reunion of New York City’s bachata legends Aventura, releasing their first new music in almost a decade with the video “Immortal” in the #20 spot.Four of the top 30 videos were taken by K-pop, with TWICE and the fresh-off-Coachella group BLACKPINK placing in the late 20 ranks.But it’s BTS that pulled off two of the top videos with the same track: “Boy With Luv” in the #3 spot, and also appearing in the #15 position, but this time, with the official choreography video.This is a common practice in the K-pop world, where the official video drops first, then the choreography rehearsal video more than a week later. This maximizes the official video’s view count, while still giving fan service while the track is fresh.BTS goes the extra mile in their case, as in their choreography videos, they don’t even use the actual audio on the video besides the low-quality track playing in the dance studio, presumably to drive viewers to the official music video.Another case of a track making a double appearance on the trending video list is Florida rapper Kodak Black, in a diss track called “Expeditiously” against Atlanta rapper T.I.The original video, which is just a static image with the song is in the #5 spot with the official video coming out four days later in the #8 spot this week.It’s worth noting that just like Spotify’s Viral 50 chart or SoundCloud’s New & Hot chart, YouTube’s trending music video chart is filtered not by total views, but the ones showing the most virality. For example, Kodak Black’s #5 position video has 5.6M views while BLACKPINK’s video ranked 29th has 43x more views at 243M. Since YouTube updates this chart weekly, likely we’re looking at an algorithm that prioritizes the most views in the past seven days, which makes sense given the recent nature of the top charting video release dates.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday April 24th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Wednesday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsIt’s Technique Tuesday! We’re diving into the Spotify listener to follower ratio with Coachella darling LizzoMissionGood 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 23rd 2019.Technique Tuesday: Listener to Follower Ratio w/ LizzoLet’s try a new segment called Technique Tuesday, where we take a deep dive into music data concepts.What better artist to start the segment with than Houston-born, Minneapolis-based artist Lizzo?Playing both weekends at this year’s Coachella, Lizzo has stood out as a beloved figure for her candid nature, body positivity, and hot music.On Spotify, Lizzo’s data is showing signs of a promising emerging artist. At 243K followers and 5.4M monthly listeners, this gives her a great listener to follower ratio of 23.1.The reason a higher listener to follower ratio is a noteworthy vital sign for an artist is it attempts to measure the streaming equivalents of reach and engagement.If you’re not familiar with reach or engagement, they are advertising terms that came up with the rise of online or social media ads. Digital advertising is largely responsible for the rise of countless tech giants such as Google and Facebook.In a nutshell, reach is simply about recognition and getting your name out there, where as engagement is when people care enough to actively comment, share a post, or even buy tickets or merch.Now let’s apply this to music streaming, which is not necessarily a social media-like environment, but the concepts can still be applied. If an artist hasn’t yet been promoted in top-tier playlist spots or other promotional campaigns in streaming app front pages, this will lessen the chance for users to be led to their artist profile to follow them and subsequently raise the artist’s follower count. In this case, this lower follower count would indicate lower reach.But if that same artist has a relatively outsized monthly listener count, it’s as if despite the short amount of reach, they are still getting lots of plays across unique listeners. This can be due to listing on user-generated tastemaker playlists or strong sharing of a favorite track via messaging between friends, for example. This higher listener count, in this case, would signify higher engagement.It’s not a perfect analogy, but dividing the amount of monthly listeners by their followers is like comparing their engagement with their reach. If you have 10 followers but 1 monthly listener, you simply advertise yourself well. However, if you have 1 follower but 10 monthly listeners, you must make awesome music. And this is exactly what the ratio tries to take into account.So to bring it back to Lizzo, her music, in this way, is currently 23 times more popular than her reputation as a public figure.Her ratio of 23.1 for example, puts her in the same realm as Lauv at 23.2 and Noah Cyrus at 23.6.Even though Lauv has around 5x more followers and Noah Cyrus has almost twice as many monthly listeners, both artists’ careers on the rise like Lizzo’s. The benefit of the ratio then is being able to compare the current trajectory of an artist’s streaming presence with other artists, even if those artists are at different stages of their careers.So congrats to Lizzo on her stellar Coachella performances, and here’s to checking out more listener to follower ratios in your daily work.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Tuesday April 23rd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsIt’s New Music Friday Monday: Apple Music’s Best of the Week playlist showcases three different Latin & US artist collaborationsMissionGood 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 MondayWelcome 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 & US artist collaborationsIn 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.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday April 22nd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at a new website: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Monday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsDigging into the music charts Gender Gap with data scientist Joshua HayesMissionGood 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 articleToday, 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 articleThe converging of Spotify, Apple Music and BillboardChartmetric Score - connection to revenueSuper high/low female track, baseline male track dynamicPost-Grande eraGenresPopLatinHip-HopCountryAll GenresOutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday April 19th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at a new website: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Friday, have a lovely weekend! 

HighlightsCountry tops yesterday’s Amazon Music Top 100 Songs chartPost Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” continues to grow into everyone’s earsMissionGood 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 SpotlightYesterday’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 & 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 SpotlightNow 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 & 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.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday April 18th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signupAnd article links and show notes are at a new website: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Thursday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsNSync performs at Coachella w/ Ariana Grande and Michael Jackson’s legacy deals with Leaving Neverland...but does this affect their music data?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 Wednesday April 17th 2019.Legacy acts in the spotlightMost of the time, music data is all about the frontline releases, the next emerging artists and global superstars...but what about legacy acts?Loosely defined, legacy acts are any artists that have had a successful career and have since left their glory days, yet still hold sway over the general public.In this sense, late 90s/early 2000s American boy band NSYNC and the late Michael Jackson fit this definition.But sometimes, the work of such acts bubble up again for one reason or another, and sometimes they are good, and sometimes not so much.Exhibit 1: Just this past Sunday, reigning American pop queen Ariana Grande invited NSYNC on stage (minus Justin Timberlake) to perform a few of their hits as part of her headlining set. The various teasers leading up to the event have given way to performance reviews on all the music outlets, and while the effect is diluted on Ms. Grande’s red-hot career, how does this affect the former group that haven’t released original material since 2001?Legacy acts on streaming services are an odd juxtaposition of the old and the new, but for NSYNC, they are enjoying streaming metrics that would otherwise be great for an up and coming act.At 6.1M Spotify monthly listeners and 914K followers, this gives them listener to follower ratio of 6.7, putting them ahead of Charli XCX and even Billie Eilish. This actually makes a lot of sense for the group, because a high ratio is usually the result of a highly loyal but small following with little to no marketing reach…and a now-defunct yet hugely famous 2000s boy band pretty much fits that bill to a T.In terms of immediate effects observed, they’re pretty much nil: no major editorial playlists on either Spotify, Apple, Amazon or Deezer added NSYNC records, and while their Spotify daily follower count jumped roughly 50%, it was only an additional 600 or so followers from their norm.If anything, their Twitter daily followers jumped 10x after Sunday and their Instagram daily followers popped 15x their norm, which makes sense given the very Instagrammable nature of Coachella, but already there seems to be no long-term effects.Now while there was a fun, no strings attached nature to the one-time Coachella performance, Michael Jackson’s legacy has recently taken a turn for the not-so-flattering.At the beginning of March, HBO released a documentary called Finding Neverland directed by British filmmaker Dan Reed, which focuses on the testimonials of two now-grown men that were allegedly sexually abused as children by the former King of Pop.Both traditional and social media were not quiet about the exposé, but  nevertheless, Michael Jackson’s music data profile doesn’t seem to have really experienced much of any difference: his Spotify daily follower patterns show no real changes  since March and his monthly listener count slowed slightly from 22.3M at the beginning of the month to 21.5M currently. This metric is largely buoyed by Drake’s sampling of Jackson in the track “Don’t Matter to Me” on Drake’s juggernaut album Scorpion.After Finding Neverland’s release, Jackson’s YouTube daily channel subscribers only briefly fluctuated to twice his average then cut in half from his average before returning back to normal, and his Wikipedia page views peaked at 6x his daily norm until returning back his average of about 30K views a few weeks after.What may be most interesting is how radio airplay has reacted: among 300 of the most influential US radio stations, they collectively went from spinning Jackson’s music roughly 100-150 times a day during the holiday months of Nov/Dec last year, and now trickling down to just 10 spins a day as of early April.Due to the limited airtime stations have and the more localized connection they have to their listeners, this might create more accountability and the need to insulate themselves from angry listeners revolted by the documentary.All in all, some say that in the show business, “any publicity is good publicity”, but from a music data perspective, at least for these artists, maybe it should be “any publicity doesn’t affect our legacy much.”OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday April 17th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.io/signupAnd article links and show notes are at a new website: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Wednesday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsCoachella Weekend 1 and the Game of Thrones Season 8 opener just dropped...so what does this mean for their playlists?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 16th 2019.Coachella & Game of Thrones spotlightWhat should we think of event-based playlists? Are they important components of branding strategy? A fun extra for superfans? Or just a marketing afterthought that captures a few of curious bypassers?Most people involved in Western pop culture were tuned into either one of two things this past weekend: Coachella Week 1 happening in the deserts of California, or the Game of Thrones season 8 opener in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.Let’s take a moment to examine both pop culture behemoths in the context of this larger question at hand. (I’ll consider the TV series Game of Thrones an “event” due to its recent season opener.)Both events maintain a curator profile on both Spotify and Apple Music. User “Coachella” is the obvious one for the music festival, while the show’s user profile is named “Game of Thrones” on Spotify, but on Apple Music, it is “Music from Game of Thrones”.Coachella on Spotify currently has six public playlists, with five of them focused on different parts of the day. For example, the “Made in the Shade” playlist is for chilling out in the morning, and “Nights and Lights” is for turning up at night.But most of Coachella’s 214K followers are for their “2019 Lineup” playlist, which is 161 songs long and runs for 10.5 hours. It’s mostly a one song per artist list, and frontline oriented.Childish Gambino currently sits in the #1 position on this playlist with the breezy “Feels Like Summer” track, and as of Sunday, had 38K unique monthly listeners coming from this playlist specifically, which is a pretty neat.Janelle Monae in the #5 spot got 26K monthly listeners from it and Smino, in the last #161 position got about 6.5K listeners. So if we assumed your average user played from beginning to end for a 10.5-hour playlist, still having 25% of your audience is not bad.However, it wouldn’t be surprising if for such a long list, users also shuffled and searched within it to find some sounds they liked...for the artist involved, it’s a decent way to get a few new followers as a side benefit of playing at the highly-coveted event.For Game of Thrones, it’s a different kind of involvement for the fan, though: the main draw is not the music, but the TV show, so playlists are like an extension of the brand.The Game of Thrones presence on Apple Music is rather straightforward: 50 tracks of Ramin Djawadi doing what the Emmy Award-winning score composer does.But for Spotify, the show takes a more creative tack: they have featured 30 different playlists based on characters in the show, featuring a picture of them and simply titled after their name.For example, hardcore warrior Khal Drogo at 3.2K followers features 25 songs of pure metal and the playlist for scheming queen Cersei Lannister starts off with Ariana Grande’s “Dangerous Woman”.The most popular playlist is for the righteous Jon Snow at 21.7K followers, so it’s not like these musical extensions of the characters are pulling major attention for the show or the music artists contained within them, but what does help is when Spotify officially backs you:The official Spotify-curated “Game of Thrones: The End is Coming” playlist sits at 155K followers, and features 3.5 hours of varied music, including Rage Against the Machine’s “Sleep Now in the Fire”.The rap-rock track, sitting in the #1 playlist spot, has drawn 128K unique monthly listeners to the band, for a track that was released back in 1999, which is great for them.So what does it all mean for events or brands? I guess it depends on how creative you are with it, and while it doesn’t draw major listening power, it provides a fun diversion for your true fans. And for artists? Why not get on them? Any attachment to a major cultural force can only be good for audience reach, and it’s virtually no additional work. And if that playlist is officially curated by Spotify, all the better.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Tuesday April 16th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.io/signupAnd article links and show notes are at a new website: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsK-pop group BTS features American star Halsey on Spotify’s New Music Friday in the #4 slot for another global smash for both actsMissionGood 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 15th 2019.New Music Friday MondayLet’s try out a new segment called New Music Friday Monday, where we dip into the data and artists behind a new release that came out over the weekend.On Friday April 12th, Korean boy band BTS continued their long-term strategy for the American market by enlisting the help of Jersey-born, LA-based singer Halsey in the new record “Boy With Luv”, who sings background vocals for the track.“Boy With Luv” is the key of B minor, with a speed of 120 beats per minute, which means that its upbeat tempo turns what’s normally a sad-sounding chord progression into a danceable, driving kind of tension. The Echo Nest score of 80 out of 100 in the Valence scale confirms that the song’s emotional sentiment is mostly positive, with a bit of sadness to it for good measure.The 3-minute and 49-second track is currently on 74 Spotify editorial playlists and 19 Apple Music editorial playlists, including the #6 spot on Today’s Top Hits and the #4 position on the Today’s Hits in US Apple storefront.You might guess that both superstar names have similar playlist footprints on either platform, but they are markedly different: for example on Spotify, about 3% of BTS’ total playlists they’re on are editorial, and Halsey’s portion of editorial playlists is about the same. However, Halsey’s total playlist reach is 208M followers, while BTS’ is 113M at the moment.Also, Halsey’s monthly listeners to follower ratio is at 5.9, which puts her in the viral realm of Billie Eilish and DJ Snake. BTS’s ratio is a somewhat unflattering 0.8, which puts them in the company of Justin Bieber and another K-pop boy band called BIGBANG, who both experienced public opinion issues as of late.One way to interpret these signals is that following an artist is a one-time action, whereas monthly listeners is an ongoing signal measured in a 28-day window. So for Bieber and BIGBANG, despite their popularity earning them high follower counts at their highest peak, their respective PR issues have cost them somewhat in recent listeners.However, why would this put the squeaky clean, up-and-coming BTS in the same ballpark? It’s hard to say, but one reason may actually be the strength of their marketing strategies: they’ve done such a good job at putting BTS in the spotlight via Western late night shows, talk radio, magazine interviews and awards appearances, that it’s earned them a lot of reach, but not enough engagement to keep up.For example, Chartmetric users, who are most strongly represented in Western countries, follow BTS the most on our tool, while superstars Drake and Ariana Grande are the #2 and #3 most followed, but only by a significant gap.Or to put it all of this simply, the curiosity is high, but the follow-through is still catching up.However, BTS also brings something to the table for Halsey, who not only makes an on-camera appearance in the “Boy With Luv” music video, but also dances choreography with them.BTS’ 16.6M Instagram followers are mostly based in Asia while over 40% of Halsey’s 12.4M followers are in the US and Brazil. Despite playing shows across the Pacific, this BTS collaboration brings Halsey front and center to a whole new demographic.And now that the video’s become the most viewed debut in the first 24 hours in YouTube history, Halsey has now cemented her place in the ever-evolving story of BTS, all around the world.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday April 15th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.io/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Happy Monday, see you tomorrow! 

HighlightsThere can only be one! Billie Eilish takes the coveted 100 Spotify Popularity Index from Ariana Grande.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 Friday April 12th 2019.Friday Fun FactWe’re going to try a new segment today called Friday Fun Fact where we do a little deep dive into a particular piece of data.Thanks to Komala, one of our brilliant engineers, we noticed that on Wednesday this week, American artist Billie Eilish has received the honor of #1 most popular artist on Spotify according to not followers, not monthly listeners, but to a number we call the Spotify Popularity Index, or SPI.What in the world is that? You don’t see it as a normal Spotify user in the app, but it sure sounds important, and it must be used for something...right?According to Spotify’s API documentation, the number is “The popularity of the artist. The value will be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The artist’s popularity is calculated from the popularity of all the artist’s tracks.” We’ve also noticed that it’s re-calculated about once a day.Before we go further, let’s take a look at the top 5 according to SPI: #2 and #3 is Ariana Grande and Drake at 99, Khalid at 98 and then Post Malone at 97.Apparently there can only be one artist in the 100 SPI spot, and from Feb 11th to April 9th, the crown was worn by Ariana Grande.Now if the SPI is calculated from the SPI of the individual tracks, this would make sense as Grande released her last full-length album Thank U, Next on that Friday February 8th, which naturally launched her into the #1 popularity spot within a few days.In turn, Billie Eilish’s newer album, WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, was released on Friday March 29th, and it took her a little under two weeks to take the crown.Why did Eilish take about 12 days and Grande only 3? Likely because of the recent competition. Because before Grande in the #1 spot, it was Toronto’s very own Drake with his massively promoted Scorpion album, who was there for over half a year, from June 2018 until Grande’s February album. While Drake is currently in 882 editorial Spotify playlists, Grande at least had the benefit of time on her side for the Scorpion effect to dull its shine slightly.Eilish’s album however, despite Grande currently being in 828 editorial playlists versus Eilish’s 283, needed a few more days to fight through Grande’s very strong presence on the platform.Remember that it’s the popularity of each track that makes up the artist’s SPI, and so their fans’ connection with their material may also come into play as a factor: according to a Music Business Worldwide article on March 21st, Eilish’s 800K album pre-adds on Apple Music shattered any previous record on the platform. While it’s obviously not Spotify, it does say something about how her fans seem to be dedicated to the album, while Grande’s body of work seems to be driven towards singles.It’s also worth noting that Grande’s least played track of her album, “make up” at 47M spins, beats out more than 60% of Eilish’s album tracks by spins, meaning that it must be more about each track’s virality, for lack of a better term, than aggregate numbers, meaning that time, indeed, must play a major factor. OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday April 12th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Look out for our new article on the success of female artists on the charts from our newest data scientist team member Josh, on our Medium blog at blog.chartmetric.io.Feel free to sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Happy Friday, have a lovely weekend. 

HighlightsBerlin enjoyed some reggaetón and dance music on yesterday’s Shazam chartDJ/producer The Prince Karma recalls some Chainsmokers viral success in greater EuropeMissionGood 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 11th 2019.Chart Highlight Let’s take a look at Berlin’s Shazam chart yesterday, which featured 50 tracks.It was a very pop-oriented list, with 18 “pop” genre tags leading as the most common and the “dance” genre tag coming in 2nd with 8 occurences.American singer-songwriter Ava Max was the only artist to have more than one track, with “So Am I” and “Sweet but Psycho” taking the #10 and #27 positions.Daddy Yankee’s “Con Calma feat. Snow” was the #1 most Shazamed track in Berlin, having been in their Top 50 for 48 days now with 3M Shazams total.The cheeky dance tune “Later Bitches” by The Prince Karma at Ultra Music took the #2 spot in Berlin. It was released back in May of last year and has a total of 5.2M Shazams globally.The #3 position was occupied by the Madism dance remix of “Someone You Loved” by Scotland’s Lewis Capaldi. That is its current peak position in Berlin and has a total of 1.5M Shazams.In terms of track age and time on chart, Berlin’s taste in music tends to be in middle of the road, as most of the chart is neither new or old, 27 of the tracks being anywhere from 1-6 months since release.And once they do make it to their city’s top 50, the tracks stay there for about the same amount of time, 1-6 months.Artist HighlightTracking back to the #2 position, the song “Later Bitches” has played out very well for DJ/producer The Prince Karma.There’s little information out on the Ultra Music label artist, but according to chartsinfrance.net, he is originally from Turkey and has been enjoying the success of his track since late last year.Somewhat similar to The Chainsmokers’ first hit “#SELFIE” in 2014, “Later Bitches” features a simple lead instrument hook, a four-on-the-floor kick drum beat, and funny spoken lines coming from an overzealous clubber like “what the hell do you mean I have to wait in line” and “I shouldn’t have had that last shot”.The Prince Karma has 1.7M Spotify monthly listeners and only 9K followers, giving him an astronomical listener to follower ratio of 197 that points towards an artist currently experiencing a viral hit. This ratio places him in the realm of no global superstars, but does put him in the company of likely other viral emerging artists such as acoustic UK songwriters Clementine Duo at a 197 ratio and Swedish singer-songwriter Plasi at 196.Mirroring his success on the Berlin Shazam chart, The Prince Karma is currently on the Top Hits Deutschland playlist on Spotify at 1.7M followers, while having been featured on Dance Party, Dance Rising and the Global Viral 50 playlists.The track also features on Apple Music’s Daily Top 100 Germany and Today’s Hits playlists in the German storefront, and the #73 position on the 7th most followed playlist on the Deezer platform, Orange Select.Probably the most interesting fact regarding the DJ’s only released track, the official YouTube video has 3.5M views since Sept 2018, but another video pre-dating the official one has 40.8M views, on a YouTube channel d2eTV (“Down to Earth”).Down2Earth Music Group is a multi-functional music company whose YouTube channel has an international presence, as the “Later Bitches” top comments section has comments in English, Polish, Russian and German...which makes sense as The Prince Karma has just finished up a Central & Eastern European tour.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday April 11th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Feel free to sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Happy Thursday, see you tomorrow. 

HighlightsToday’s Top Hits at almost 23M followers remains Spotify’s crown jewelBillboard Emerging Artist Kiana Ledé begins to spread her wings 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 Wednesday April 10th 2019.Playlist Highlight With 9M more followers than the #2 Spotify playlist, Today’s Top Hits remains playlist supreme on the Swedish streaming platform.Growing at 1% (or ~170K) followers in the past month, the list is at 22.9M of them and is due to break the 23M mark within a month.For the past 2.5 years, it’s been disciplined at keeping only 50 tracks, though this week, it’s added a few more to total 53.Leading that list is Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus with the “Old Town Road - Remix”, and American singer-songwriter Alec Benjamin in the #2 spot with the sad breakup song “Let Me Down Slowly”.The inescapable Billie Eilish holds down the bronze medal at #3 with the kick-drum-driven “bad guy” off her hot new album.55% of Today’s Top Hits this week comes from American artists, while 10% of the list comes from the United Kingdom, including Glasgow’s indietronica CHVURCHES and London-based Rita Ora in a collaboration with Brazil’s Anitta.Puerto Rico contributes to about 5% of the list with tracks from reggaetón kings Daddy Yankee, Ozuna and Farruko.In terms of track adds and removals, most of the frontline playlist gets added on Global Release Friday, but Today’s Top Hits tends to remove tracks more loosely across Thursday, Friday and Saturday.In the past month, 58% of the tracklist got refreshed, and the adds are typically new releases. This week for example, 31 of the 53 tracks are brand new.Despite Today’s Top Hits reputation as a place for new records, it’s good to remember that once a track gets put on, it tends to live there: over 75% of the historical tracks they’ve placed stay on for 1-6 months.For a deeper dive, check out our Today’s Top Hits blog post in the show notes.Artist Highlight“I don't gotta be in love with you to love you”. That is a lyric from Phoenix-born, LA-based artist Kiana Ledé, who is hiding down in the #46 spot of Today’s Top Hits with the sultry and bittersweet breakup track “EX”.The R&B singer who moonlighted as an actor on MTV’s Scream and Netflix’s All About the Washingtons, her music career has been on a major marketing push since last month.With 5.2M Spotify monthly listeners and 213K followers, this puts her at an excellent listener to follower ratio of 25. For context, AWAL superstar Lauv is at 24.1 and young American pop star MAX at 25.3.Ledé’s playlist situation completely blew up in March, adding the 4.9M follower Are & Be Spotify playlist and 1.8M follower Hot Rhythmic playlist, as well as being added to the sexual contextual playlists Love, Sex and Water at 1.6M and Bedroom Jams just under 1M.She’s in the #33 position on the 65-track Today’s Hits Apple playlist in the US, and virtually all of the storefronts for the A-List: R&B playlist, ranging from position #16-33 depending on the country.On Amazon Music, she’s on six editorial playlists, including the genre-focused Introducing: / Fresh / and Chill R&B playlists.Not limited to digital, her radio play in the South is strong with over 430 radio spins in Florida, 374 spins in Lousiana and 343 spins in Texas since the beginning of the year.With her smooth sound, Hollywood connections and her recent publicity push on Billboard, we’re sure to see more of Ms. Ledé in the months to come.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday April 10th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Feel free to sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Happy Wednesday, see you tomorrow. 

HighlightsSpotify’s Viral 50 chart highlights music from around the worldRussian trap duo Rauf & Faik take off in the Caucasus regionMissionGood 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&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&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 & 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 NewsThe occupants of the #10 spot, Russian trap duo Rauf & 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 & 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.OutroThat’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/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow. 

HighlightsKhalid kicks off Amazon Music’s Newly Released Songs chart for SaturdayAmerican singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles gets extra YouTube views from a young artist in FranceMissionGood 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 8th 2019.Chart Highlight On Saturday, Amazon Music updated their Newly Released Songs daily chart, featuring mostly new music from the day prior.19 of the top 20 tracks were all released on Friday April 5th with the exception of Billie Eilish’s lead single “Bad Guy” off her latest album, which was released the week prior.Newly Released Tracks isn’t explicitly ranked persay, but logging onto the service via a browser, it definitely gives a specific order top down, which is what we measure.The chilled out track “Don’t Pretend” by Khalid feat. Toronto-based Safe leads off the list in the #1 spot, with the Jonas Brothers releasing their second single “Cool” since their comeback in the #2 position.Pulling up third is none other than Smokey Robinson singing background vocals for California-native Anderson .Paak on the throwback R&B-influenced “Make It Better”.Of the top 98 newly released tracks, 28 of them went underneath the Interscope Records imprint, which was in collaboration with both Grade A Productions, which is rapper Juice WRLD’s label, and of course, Billie Eilish’s label The Darkroom.The fourth most occuring artist on the Amazon new songs chart was P!nk, with three tracks at the 32nd, 47th and 95th positions, including her power pop track “Walk Me Home” and scorned lover-themed “Hustle”.Don’t think it’s all about American pop though, as the top 20 also included K-pop’s BLACKPINK in the #6 position with “Kill This Love” and Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn represent country in the 8 and 11 spots.Artist Highlight in the NewsNow in the #5 spot on that chart is California-born singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, who released on Friday the sparse, piano-driven “A Safe Place to Land” feat. John Legend.The Grammy, Tony and Emmy-nominated Bareilles has led a very diversified career which has certainly spilled over into the digital music world.With 6.2M Spotify monthly listeners and 1.1M followers, her listener to follower ratio is a healthy 6, placing her between Lady Gaga at about 5 and Billie Eilish at about 7.She’s currently on 150 Spotify editorial playlists and 11 Apple Music editorial playlists. Her fun 2007 hit “Love Song” has still got lots of gas, being in the #85 position on the 100-track Songs to Sing in the Car Spotify playlist, which has a rapidly growing follower base of 7.7M, while “Love Song” also lives on the 6.1M follower playlist “All Out 00s” in the #61 spot.The empowering 2013 single “Brave” has its own healthy life on Apple Music, featuring in Essential Motivational Songs in the #9 spot and the #6 position on Feminism Essentials.Probably the most interesting data point of late for Ms. Bareilles is in her recent YouTube views in France: in the French syndicated version of the singing TV competition the Voice, a young contestant named Ursula, on March 30th, auditioned for the chair-turning judges Sara Bareilles’ single “Gravity”.Ursula’s vulnerable and touching rendition of the 2007 track is most likely behind the 363% increase in YouTube views for Bareilles in the past month, as it went from 3.1K daily views to 14.7K on the same day of the episode airing….bonne chance Ursula, good luck in the competition!OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday April 8th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Feel free to sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Happy Monday, see you tomorrow. 

HighlightsAmazon Music’s “Country Heat” playlist features a who’s who in the Nashville scene today, while Country artist Kane Brown dips his toes into the Latin world with Becky GMissionGood 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 April 5th 2019.Playlist Highlight Currently at the top of Amazon Music’s Top Playlists is Country Heat, which lists “Fire tracks from the hottest acts in country music.”Currently at 55 songs and just over 3 hours long, it’s of course a mostly American collection of artists besides Aussie Morgan Evans and Canadian group James Barker Band each featuring one track.In terms of label representation, it’s pretty well distributed, with Sony Music in the lead with 16 of the current tracks, Universal at 9, indie Big Machine & major Warner Music at 8, and both BMG’s BBR Music Group and indie label Big Loud Records at 4 each.Blake Shelton kicks off the #1 spot with his anthemic track “God’s Country”, and Chris Stapleton’s “Millionaire” about how being in love is making him a rich man brings up the rear in the #55 position.Interestingly, Country Heat plays no artist favorites, as out of the entire 55 tracks, no artist appears more than once with the slight exception of Luke Combs, who placed his track “Beautiful Crazy” in the #20 spot, but appears as a guest in Brooks & Dunn’s ode to devotion in “Brand New Man” in position #51.So if you’re looking for a hot country playlist that seems to like a diverse set of artists, check out Amazon’s Country Heat.Artist Highlight in the NewsNow pulling into that playlist’s number 13 spot is Tennessee-born, Georgia-raised Kane Brown, who recently made an interesting move into the Latin world.Releasing the track “Lost in the Middle of Nowhere” with Mexican-American artist Becky G on March 28th, Brown sang in both English and Spanish, as the duo released two versions of the track on the same day.Both signed to Sony Music, they have similar data profiles on Spotify, though Becky G pulls ahead of Kane Brown in some aspects. Becky G’s Spotify popularity index is at 86 out of 100 while Brown is at 79, but he slightly edges her with a listener to follower ratio of 5, while Becky G is at 4. This is most likely due to Becky G being on many more Spotify editorial playlists at 245 and having much more exposure to accumulate more followers, while Brown is only on 50 editorial playlists.When it comes to daily statistics, Becky G is definitely exposing Brown to a wider crowd as Becky G has 5x more daily Spotify followers, 5x more daily YouTube views, 15x more daily Instagram followers than Brown.Becky G’s top five most listened to Spotify cities? Santiago, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Lima. Kane Brown’s are all stateside: Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, LA and Houston.Going by Instagram followers, Becky G’s fanbase is young but fairly spread out between 13-34, while over half of Kane Brown’s fanbase is between 18-24 only.They both cater to a majority female audience, though Becky G’s fanbase is 50% Hispanic and Kane Brown’s is 83% Caucasian, showing where the collaboration can provide the most exposure to new potential fans.The song itself definitely caters to each audience, as the country/English version features guitar power chords, acoustic string strumming and a straight backbeat drum pattern, while the Latin/Spanish version features reggae guitar rhythms and the trademark reggaetón beat.It looks like the cross-collaboration is going well for Brown as the Spanish version has 3.2M views more than the English version, so to Kane Brown, felicitaciones!OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday April 5th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.If you want to check some of the data yourself, sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Happy Friday, and have a great weekend! See you Monday.

HighlightsSydney, Australia revels in dance beats and romantic pop songs in yesterday’s Shazam chartFlorida-born Dominic Fike uses contextual playlists to steadily grow his Spotify monthly listener count to 3.5MMissionGood 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 4th 2019.Charts What’s going on down under? Checking yesterday’s Shazam daily charts for Sydney, Australia brings us a very pop-oriented selection with the “pop” genre tag coming up 20 times in the top 43 songs.Next most common tag was “Alternative” with seven appearances.Ava Max, Billie Eilish, Dean Lewis and Halsey all appeared the most on the chart, scoring two tracks each, while Dominic Fike’s “3 Nights” took the #1 spot which was released back in October of last year.Lukas Graham’s ballad “Love Someone” and Loud Luxury’s dance hit “Body (feat. Brando)” both tied for the longest time on the Sydney charts at 59 weeks, piquing Australians’ curiosity for over a year now.Taking the #2 spot was a dance remix of “Someone You Loved” by soulful crooner Lewis Capaldi, not to be confused with the Lukas Graham track.And LA-based Ava Max not only takes the #3 spot with “So Am I” but she also has the chart’s entry with the most Shazams globally with “Sweet but Psycho” in the #34 spot at 6.2M.Despite all the happy, pop-oriented English music, Latin boy band CNCO goes back and forth between Spanish and English in the smooth track “Pretend” at the #16 spot. You can check out our Latin boy band deep dive we did on them with a link in this episode’s notes.Artist HighlightLet’s dig a little deeper into Dominic Fike, who took Sydney’s #1 Shazam chart spot yesterday.If you divide his 3.5M Spotify monthly listeners by his only 29K followers, his listener to follower ratio is a monstrous 120. To put that in perspective, Drake’s ratio is 1.1 and Ariana Grande’s is just under 2, which might not be the most fair comparison since they are some of the world’s biggest artists and therefore have been overexposed in the playlist ecosystem, but it does help you realize how relatively unknown Fike is, and how much traction he does seem to be getting with those that are in the know.Fike is on 27 Spotify editorial playlists, including a lot of the Swedish platform’s mid-tier ones such as “Mood Booster” at 3.2M follows, “Good Vibes” at 2.2M and “Weekend Hangouts” at 1.3M. This seems to be a common way for emerging artists to plant their earworms into new listeners, via contextual playlists that cater towards what the listener is doing, versus what the music or artist is about. If you’re interested in learning more, check the show notes for our Medium article on it!His track “3 Nights” also made it onto several of Apple’s “Today’s Hits” playlists in the Anglo-centric countries such as the US/Canada/Australia/New Zealand, and have been for about three months each. It also however made it into India’s version as well, maybe looking for a regional crossover.With Shawn Mendes, Billie Eilish and Jacob Sartorius all notable followers on his Instagram profile, Dominic Fike looks like he’s got a bright future ahead of him, and his work cut out.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday April 4th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.If you want to check some of the data yourself, sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signupAnd article links and show notes are at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Friday’s almost here! See you tomorrow.

HighlightsBritish and American artists take over the Top 10 YouTube music video charts in the UKAWAL signs a young singer-songwriter with a 100+ listener to follower ratioSoulCycle teams up with singer Ciara to make their latest Apple Music featured playlistMissionGood 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 Wednesday April 3rd 2019.Charts For the week ending March 28th, the Top 10 YouTube music videos in the United Kingdom were ruled by both the British and the Americans, splitting them in half.British hip-hop producer Steel Banglez took the #1 spot at 1.5M views that week with the smooth video “Fashion Week”, which opened in the #1 spot.Two grime artists, Russ and Tion Wayne, took the #2 spot, on the YouTube channel GRM Daily, which bills itself as the “epicentre of UK urban culture”, which itself has accumulated over 1.7B views.The #3 spot is taken by British MC and producer Wiley, which features none other than actor Idris Elba dropping bars, with the infectious “Boasty” music video. If you’re a fan of Elba’s movie work in Thor, Pacific Rim or The Dark Tower, check out the video which just spent its third week on the chart with just over 1M views.Rounding out the list are Americans Maroon 5, Ava Max and YNW Melly in their own videos, but in a 1-2 UK-US punch at the #9 spot, Sam Smith and ex-Fifth Harmony member Normani star in the beautifully-shot “Dancing with a Stranger” music video.Artist Highlight in the NewsOn April 1st, Music Business Worldwide announced the signing of British singer-songwriter Millie Turner to AWAL, Kobalt Music’s recorded music services company.Turner is an 18-year-old sporting a relaxed electro-pop sound, which fits the AWAL roster quite nicely, and surely they noticed that despite Turner’s Spotify follower count hovering under a humble 4K, she has over 406K monthly listeners, which gives her a listener to follower ratio of 104, signalling to all algorithms ever made to put her in every playlist imaginable.She only has six tracks released on the major platforms, with a curiously strong focus only on Spotify playlists, as she is only on 5 Apple Music ones and 2 Deezer playlists, while being on 51 of Spotify’s.Turner seems to be slowly growing her exposure, by featuring tracks like “Eyes on You” and “Night Running” on mid-tier playlists like “New Music Friday UK” at 703K followers and “Indie Pop” at 837K.Resonating most in Central to Eastern Europe, she seems to have found quite the following in Istanbul, as she’s increased her monthly listener count from roughly 3K to 23K in the past year, over a 570% increase. Turkish summer tour? We’ll have to wait and see.  Playlist Round-Up In the latest on the bands and brands front, NYC-based indoor cycling company SoulCycle released the “Sound by SoulCycle x Ciara” playlist.The 15-track Apple Music list runs for 1 hour and 5 minutes and rates in the upper halves of the Echo Nest Energy and Danceability charts, which would perfectly compliment a 60-minute workout that demands you are in high spirits as you get your sweat on.Atlanta-based singer Ciara of course gets the ability to debut her latest single, “Thinkin Bout You”, in the leading playlist spot, and takes 11 of the 15 tracks reaching all the way back to 2004 to her hits like “One, Two Step” feat. Missy Elliott and “Goodies” feat. T.I. and Jazze Pha.Salt-N-Pepa and Kanye West are mixed into the playlist for good measure, so if you’re into the SoulCycle scene and like some old-school hip-hop and RnB, be on the lookout for this one.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday April 3rd 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.If you have any ideas for artists or new segments for the podcast, let us know at [email protected] can always get links and show notes at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Happy Wednesday, see you tomorrow!

HighlightsLil Nas X, Billie Eilish and Nipsey Hussle top the Apple Music Top Songs chart yesterdayPunjabi-Canadian rapper NAV rules the Billboard 200 album chartRegional mint playlists tap the dance floors around the worldMissionGood 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.ChartsApple 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 NewsPunjabi-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.OutroThat’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!

HighlightsSpotify’s Fresh Finds celebrate indie music in our aggregate chartAmerican producer Marshmello sees a 375% increase in Indian YouTube views for his cross-border collaborationAmazon Music’s “All Hits” assumes its place as the tech giant’s flagship playlistMissionGood 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 1st 2020. Just joking, it’s still 2019. Happy April Fool’s Day.ChartsOnce a week, our Spotify Fresh Finds chart aggregates the platform’s eight discovery-oriented playlists. For the chart ending on March 28th, there are 402 tracks total with the dance track “Your Love” by French DJ Mercer being the most playlisted of the bunch at 42.According to Quartz, Spotify’s non-personalized, human-curated playlist series focuses on a designated set of tastemakers that have proven to show high listening activity on unknown tracks before they become popular.For the previous week, Mercer’s dance track appeared on two Fresh Finds playlists: the main one and also the Fresh Finds: Basement playlist, which caters to electronic and dance music fans.The main Fresh Finds playlist features 659K followers and the Basement version features 42K, but with its focus on independent artists/labels, the Fresh Finds series is more about taste-making: the few forecasting tomorrow’s sounds for the many.114 of the 402 aggregate tracks have 4+ minute durations, no genre tag appears more than 3 times, and labels/distributors such as DistroKid, !K7, Empire and Platoon led the chart with a total of 16 tracks, companies made their reputations as being fiercely indie….so if you’re lacking in the hipster friend department, check out Fresh Finds to fill in the void.Artist Highlight in the NewsOn February 1st, American DJ/producer Marshmello released an India-US collaboration with Mumbai-based composer Pritam entitled “BIBA”, which currently has a Spotify Popularity Index of 72 out of 100, and over 32M views on YouTube.Marshmello’s penchant for innovation has become very clear this year after DJ-ing a live set on the gaming juggernaut that is Fortnite while releasing BIBA at the same time.His 1-2 punch of the Fortnite stream on Feb 2nd directly after the Feb 1st BIBA release caused quite a spike of interest in him, with both his daily Wikipedia views and Instagram followers increasing ten-fold. However, the strength of BIBA became clear when the official YouTube video released two weeks later on Feb 14th, triggering a 375% increase in daily views in India to 2.1M, and making Indian Instagram followers his second most loyal geographic demo at 9.5%, with his first being the US at 19%.At 10.4M Spotify followers and four times as many monthly listeners at 44.7M, Marshmello’s dynamic career moves are obviously paying off.Playlist Round-Up “All Hits” seems to be Amazon Music’s #1 playlist, even though there is no follower count publicly displayed. Both within the app and on the browser, it is consistently one of the first playlists you see in the interface.Likely the tech giant’s equivalent to Spotify’s “Today’s Top Hits” or Apple’s “Today’s Hits”, it has 50 tracks currently and total running time of 2 hours and 45 minutes.In the past month, tracks have been changed out on Wednesday and Thursday by the default platform curator named “Amazon’s Music Experts”, and roughly half the track tags are “pop” naturally with a strong US focus at 77% American artists.“Without Me” from Jersey-born, LA-based singer Halsey occupies the current top spot, the only track of 50 not replaced last week.We’ve got limited data on “All Hits” since Amazon Music is a new data source, but stay tuned for later updates as the Alexa-driven platform will only continue to grow the #3 most subscribed to streaming platform in the world.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday April 1st 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, if you’re enjoying the podcast, share it with a colleague.If you missed a detail, you can always get full show notes at: chartmetric.transistor.fm/episodes.Happy Monday, see you tomorrow!