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  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! 

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! 

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! 

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  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  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  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  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  YouTube’s global importance is no secret, but monitoring its playlist performance hasn’t always been easy. Using our new YouTube Playlists chart, you can finally track which lists are getting the most play!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 16th, 2019.The Top YouTube Playlists to Land OnIf you’re tracking YouTube playlists as part of your daily routine, or if you want to start thinking about a digital strategy for the platform, then you’re in luck.Thanks to our brand new feature, you can check the rankings of more than 500 YouTube-curated playlists, sorting by total playlist views, number of videos, 28-day add ratio and last update date. Then, you can click through to see who's charting on the world's biggest video streaming platform.As it stands now, YouTube’s Popular Music Videos playlist is far and away the top performer with more than 1B total views, 200 tracks, and a 99 percent 28-day add ratio.It’s heavily weighted with Pop, Hip-Hop, and Rap artists from the USA — think Ariana Grande, Chris Brown, and Rick Ross — but R&B, Latin, and Reggaeton aren’t too far behind.In the No. 2 spot is the 72-track Pop Hotlist playlist, which has about a third of the views and half of the 28-day add ratio of the Popular Music Videos playlist.Katy Perry, OneRepublic, and Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA rule this one — as does the USA, once again. YouTube has a number of genre-specific Hotlists, actually, including the Latin Hotlist at No. 4, the Hip-Hop and R&B Hotlist at No. 5, the Country Hotlist at No. 6, and the Regional Mexican Hotlist at No. 7.The No. 3 spot, however, goes to New Music This Week, which has a bit more than 300M views and a 100 percent 28-day add ratio.While Pop holds about a third of the market share on it, with R&B and Rap tied for second at a bit less than a tenth, Country rounds out third, tying with Hip-Hop and Metropopolis. USA dominates the playlist again, holding almost ¾ of the artist country market share.With such a global platform, you might expect to see less American representation and more international representation, but keep in mind, these market shares describe artist-track distribution on the playlists and not listener geography.So, Americans might be pumping out the majority of the content that’s landing on these playlists, but the global community is likely forcing it to the top. OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, August 16th, 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  We do our best to stay out of the political fray, but with the Democratic debates wrapping last week, we look at the candidates’ streaming profiles to get a sense of not only who they’re listening to — but who is listening to them. Mission   Good morning, it’s Rutger here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.We’re on the socials at “chartmetric”, that’s Chartmetric, no “S ”- follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and talk to us! We’d love to hear from you.DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, August 9th, 2019.When Streaming Gets Political, Who Gets the Vote?Think profiles and playlists are only for artists? Think again.We do our best to stay out of politics, but with the debates wrapping last week, why not look at the candidates’ streaming profiles to get a sense of not only who they’re listening to — but who is listening to them ... and how?Since no one is vying for the Republican nomination, with Trump seeking a second term, we’ll look at six of the Democratic candidates: Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Beto O’Rourke, Joe Biden, and Marianne Williamson.Booker’s Cory Booker’s Music playlist might only have around 150 followers, but what it lacks in popularity it makes up for in track popularity, with almost half of its 101 tracks at a popularity score of 60 or above.At around 180 followers, Biden’s streaming profile has about the same count as Booker’s playlist — but only 22 monthly listeners. Harris’ Kamala’s Summer Playlist ups the ante with more than 4,000 followers tuning into her heavily rap, hip-hop, soul, and funk oriented 46-song listing. O’Rourke’s BBQ for Beto has some 500 followers listening to his 94-song playlist, which ranges in genre from folk to classic rock and country to hardcore punk.Keep in mind, O-Rourke used to play in punk bands, so he definitely knows what’s up in that regard.As might be expected, Williamson’s streaming profile is heavily geared toward meditation, prayer, and motivational speeches — and it’s paying off.Williamson’s follower count is almost 1,800 with a Spotify monthly listener count of around 1,200, helping to make her listeners to followers ratio about 1 to 1.Perhaps most interesting, and maybe most unsurprising, is that her daily Wikipedia views shot up from some 12,000 to some 350,000 following the debate, correlating strongly with a daily change in her Instagram followers from around 600 to around 11,000 on Aug. 1.Yang’s Favorite Jams playlist leaves the others in the dust with more than 5,000 followers — despite it being primarily catalogue based.Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Yang appears to really enjoy Florence & the Machine and the Cure.Streaming performance might not be an indication of political performance, but it does give us some insight into who these candidates are looking to win over — or at least how good their music taste is.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, August 9th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are available at chartmetric.com Article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer’s biggest playlists are growing — both in terms of follower count and also track count — but what does that mean for artists looking to land a big add?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.Feature: Labels PageHey Rutger, it’s Jason — sorry to interrupt, but can I just do a quick product update? Of course, what’s up?Thanks, man. Hi Chartmetric fans, you may or may not have gotten a chance to check out the new Labels Page feature that we discussed in the last podcast episode this week.We’ve temporarily pulled the feature back from its soft release because we just don’t think it’s up to the music analytics standard we strive for.If you’ve been with us for some time, you’ve seen how dedicated we are to innovating and as we say in the tech world, sometimes “breaking things”.Well, we’ve gotten a lot of your feedback and realize that we jumped the gun a bit early and we need to better clean, organize and visualize the label metadata that we have, which is what we do best.So we recognize the issue, and we are working swiftly to bring the Labels Page back with verve and more importantly, accuracy!Back to our regularly scheduled program, take it away, Rutger!Thanks, Jason!DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, August 2nd, 2019.How 2019’s Playlist Growth Might Affect Emerging ArtistsThese days, getting onto streaming’s top playlists is sort of the name of the game.It really determines the visibility of emerging artists and cements the longevity of established ones.So, it got us wondering…. What’s been going on on the top playlists in 2019?Hitting the Playlists tab on the Chartmetric homepage brings up tons of playlist information for Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and Amazon.From there, we can compare everything going on when it comes to the playlists claiming the top spots across a number of different measurements.On Spotify, Today’s Top Hits maintains the highest follow number, starting the year off with 22.3M and hitting 23.6M by the end of June.That’s 5.8 percent increase for that six month period.On Deezer, Les Titres Du Moment claims the top follower spot, and over the same period, experienced only about 1 percent growth from 9.8M followers to 9.9M followers.Digging in a bit deeper, we can also compare playlist length, aka number of tracks.For that six month period, for example, Spotify’s Hot Country playlist grew 31.4 percent in length, while Apple Music’s The A-List: Pop playlist grew the same amount.But those aren’t the highest numbers. Spotify’s EDM-focused Mint playlist grew 35.8 percent, and Apple’s Hip-Hop-oriented Gymflow playlist grew 66.7 percent.Overall, Apple added more tracks to its top playlists than Spotify did — about 11 percent vs. 23 percent, to be exact. The growth of these playlists, both in terms of follower count and also track count, means a higher chance of an emerging artist landing on one of them and a significant increase in visibility if they do.However, it also makes it more likely that they get lost in the noise, making it hard to capitalize on an otherwise super exciting add.Knowing the genre breakdown of tracks and also the country distribution of artists can help, but we’ll have to save that for another episode. You can also tell us what you find by doing your own digging at chartmetric.com!Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, August 2nd, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comAnd if you like what we’re doing, don’t forget to leave us a rating or review!Happy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  What’s in a name? For the subgenre game on Spotify, Apple, Deezer, and Amazon’s top playlists … a lot.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, July 26th, 2019.Odd Subgenres Gaining Ground on Streaming’s Top PlaylistsEver heard of Brostep, Lilith, Etherpop, Crunk, Redneck, Metropopolis, or Pagode?No? Well, chances are, you’ve listened to examples of some of these subgenres, because they now comprise a small but significant portion of the top playlists on Spotify, Apple, Deezer, and Amazon.Thanks to the new subgenre feature on our Artists tab, where we've categorized the more than 7,000 Spotify genre tags into a handful of parent genres, finding artists that fit these niche descriptors is easy.Just select the main genre and then scroll through the subgenres to filter to your heart’s content.If we apply this taxonomy to Spotify’s Hot Country playlist, which boasts around 5.5M followers, Redneck and Brostep account for 5.7 and 2.9 percent of that playlist’s track distribution when it comes to genre market share.What exactly do those subgenres sound like? Well, let’s just say that Redneck is REALLY country and Brostep is in-your-face Dubstep. On Get Turnt, which also has around 5.5M followers, Crunk has 1.6 percent of the playlist’s genre makeup.The Subgenre is also featured on Apple Music’s Rap Life, #OnRepeat, It’s Lit!!!, and Gymflow playlists, and on Amazon’s Rap Rotation playlist, finding its low at 0.8 percent and its high at 2.9 percent.Crunk actually emerged as a subgenre of Hip-Hop during the ‘90s in the American South.Crank it up.Deezer’s Brand New UK and Neue Hits playlists, meanwhile, feature something called Metropopolis, which is apparently a neologism of Spotify’s and includes artists like Charli XCX, Bleachers, and St. Vincent.That portmanteau — think urban pop — sits at 5.6 percent on Brand New UK (tied with House) and at 5.1 percent on Neue Hits (tied with Rap).Apple’s The A-List: Pop playlist and Amazon’s Pop Hits playlist share a subgenre called Etherpop, which sounds pretty self-explanatory as a combination of ethereal and pop.It wins out on Amazon, where it has 2.9 percent share of the playlist (tied with Emo and R&B) vs. 1.2 on Apple, where it’s tied with Rap, House, K-Pop, and yup, Metropopolis.And that brings us to two subgenres exclusive to Deezer and Amazon’s top playlists, respectively.On Deezer, the Pagode subgenre is seeing success on its Top Brazil and Explosão Brasil playlists, which makes total sense, considering it’s a form of Samba.Brazilians love it, too, as it dominates Explosão Brasil with a 20.8 percent share and comes in third on Top Brazil with 13.3 percent.Lilith, which claims 2.1 percent on Amazon’s Fresh Country and 5.8 percent on Amazon’s I Miss the ‘90s, seems to also be a geo-specific subgenre, with its roots in the Canadian-American traveling music festival, Lilith Fair, which featured an inspiring number of female-fronted folk and rock acts in the ‘90s.If you’re curious about what artists might fall into each of these subgenres — Brostep to Lilith, Etherpop to Crunk, Redneck to Metropopolis, or Pagode to … C86? — you’re in luck with our subgenre filter. Nerd out for free with a Chartmetric account!Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, July 26th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.comAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  Is there any relation between follower counts on streaming services and follower counts on social media? Here’s a sneak peek at the trends we’re tracking for some of the biggest artists in the world.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.Don’t forget to reach out to us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn! We’d love to hear from you.DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, July 19th, 2019.What Follower Counts Say About Social and Streaming TrendsIn the old days, customers became fans if they not only bought CDs but also concert tickets — consistently and repeatedly.In the digital era, the live space is still important, but streaming platform followers and social media followers are the new metrics for measuring fandom. But does streaming popularity correlate with social media popularity?Is it consistent across the board, or does each streaming platform relate differently to each social platform?To test out these queries, we pulled follower data for artists topping the charts from January through June, and then determined the correlation coefficients for Spotify and Instagram, Spotify and Twitter, and Spotify and Facebook, repeating this process for YouTube, SoundCloud, and Deezer.What panned out from all of our calculations and pretty charts? For the whole story, you’ll have to stay tuned for something special we have in the works for the near future.In the meantime, here’s a teaser: One thing that pops out immediately is how poorly Facebook is correlated with streaming services across the board.If we take the average correlation across eight of the top artists for the past six months, Facebook turns up negligible negative correlation coefficients for Spotify and YouTube and negligible positive correlation coefficients for SoundCloud and Deezer.Instagram, on the other hand, turns up near one-to-one correlations with Spotify and YouTube.Twitter correlates pretty well with each streaming service — but nowhere near the Instagram correlation.In the words of our resident Data Scientist Josh Hayes, “Seems like many of the platforms are moving in similar directions together … except for Facebook.”While Facebook owns both platforms, it’s apparent, at least for the top performing artists, that Facebook Fan growth has either stopped, declined, or failed to keep pace with follower growth on four streaming services.Naturally, the story gets a bit more complicated as we begin to look at trends for particular artists, genres, and more, but hang in there — the full story is coming soon!OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, July 19th 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.comAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next week!

Highlights  Brazilian Bossa Nova legend João Gilberto died over the weekend at the age of 88. We remember “O Mito” and just how timeless he is.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.Our social media handle is “chartmetric”, that’s Chartmetric, no “S ”- follow us on all your favorite platforms at Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, and let us know what you think about this or any episode, get the latest and greatest from us daily...we’d also love to get your feedback!DateThis is your Data Dump for Wednesday, July 10th, 2019.Remembering Bossa Nova Great João GilbertoJoão Gilberto, the father of Bossa Nova, died in Rio De Janeiro over the weekend, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t honor his monumental legacy.Gilberto was born in 1931 in the Brazilian state of Bahia, received his first guitar when he was 14, and you might say the rest is history.In 1965, he and American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz won three Grammy Awards for their album Getz/Gilberto, which features their famous recording of “The Girl From Ipanema.”With any legacy artist like Gilberto, whose catalog consists of, well, catalog (as opposed to frontline) recordings, numbers tend to flatline without those big new release marketing drivers.Gilberto’s repertoire has seen a significant uptick in interest across platforms not only in the last week, which is to be expected anytime a music great passes into the next frontier — but within the last two months as well.On Spotify, Gilberto’s follower increase has hovered steadily around a 100 since January, but since May 25, it’s shot up to around 600.While his monthly listeners fell some 5 or 600,000 from early April to early May, by the end of May, they had increased some 3 or 400,000.His Spotify Popularity Index, as a result, lifted some five points from 65 to 70 between May 23 and July 8.On every social platform, save for the Facebook wildcard, interest spikes are understandably, if unfortunately, localized around the news of his death.His Wikipedia views, for example, jumped from around 300 to nearly 70,000.There’s a similar increase on YouTube, where daily views leapt from around 66,000 to 1.2 million.Given his holy status in his home country of Brazil, Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro are his top cities by Spotify monthly listeners at 13.6 and 7.3 percent, respectively.On YouTube, however, Paris, France, and Santiago, Chile, are his top cities, both at around 8 percent.As far as countries go, USA, at 15 percent, is his biggest fan behind Brazil, at 17 percent of daily YouTube views.So, while Gilberto is definitely a Brazilian deity in the music world, it’s clear his impact has been global and that it will remain so for many, many years to come.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, July 10th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.comAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Wednesday, and we’ll see you on Friday!

Highlights  Spotify and Apple Music are grilling up your soundtrack to one of America’s biggest holidays. So, what tracks are sparking the fireworks?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.DateThis is your Data Dump for Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019.Barbecue the Music: Playlisting USA’s Independence DayWith their own Fourth of July playlists soundtracking barbecues across America, who have Apple Music and Spotify tapped to celebrate USA’s independence from Great Britain?On Apple Music’s 16-song Pop for the Fourth playlist, Rihanna’s “American Oxygen,” first released four years ago, is the latest add.Tom Petty’s “American Girl,” first released some 43 years ago, is the next most recent add, followed by Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA,” released 10 years ago now.Noticing a pattern here?Well, besides the not-so-subtle American themes, it’s a great platform for boosting those catalog numbers.Apple Music’s Pop for the Fourth playlist has five of 16 tracks at a 50-59 valence range, but seven at a 70-79 energy range. Apple Music’s 25-song Independence Day: Hip-Hop playlist follows suit, at least with the catalog trend.E-40’s “Function (featuring YG, Iamsu!, and Problem),” Raekwon’s “Soundboy Kill It (featuring Melanie Fiona and Assassin),” and Fat Joe’s “Another Day (featuring Rick Ross, French Montana, and Tiara Thomas)” comprise the most recent adds there.All of those songs were released four and five years ago, but most noteworthy here are thematics.This playlist is less about holding the banner for American exceptionalism and more about championing an independent, and even rebellious, spirit.Apple Music’s Independence Day: Hip-Hop playlist has nine of 25 tracks at a 30-39 valence range, but seven out of 25 at a 60-69 energy range.Spotify has consolidated a little of everything into a single 103-song Independence Day playlist.The latest three adds include Martha Reeves and the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Street,” which was first released in 1964 ...Joey and Rory’s “This Song’s for You (featuring Zac Brown Band),” released nine years ago …And Simon and Garfunkel’s “America,” released in 1968.Talk about eclectic, with both catalog classics and country anthems mixed in with blues-rock, folk, and even the occasional Top 40 hit. Perhaps an attempt at a playlist snapshot of the American musical identity?Whatever the case, Spotify’s Independence Day playlist has 16 of 103 tracks at a 30-39 valence range, but the distribution is noticeably more equalized than with Apple Music.The most tracks, at 23, are featured in the 90-99 energy range.So, if you’re looking for high energy with a wide spread of moods, go Spotify, but if you’re looking for moderate energy and mood go Apple pop, and if you’re feeling extra independent, go Apple hip-hop -- at least just for your Fourth of July vibe.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.comAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comWe’ll be off air for the holiday weekend, so happy Wednesday, happy Fourth of July, and we’ll see you on Monday!

Highlights  On Part 1 of our streaming manipulation series, we took you on a wild ride into depths of playlist fixing. Today, on Part 2, we’re zeroing in on fake artists.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.DateThis is your Data Dump for Monday, July 1st, 2019.Enter the World of Streaming Manipulation, Part 2 - Fake ArtistsFor Part 1 of our streaming manipulation series, we covered some funny business in the playlisting world. On Part 2, we’re scratching a different part of streaming’s underbelly: fake artist accounts.Last November, Pop Buzz and others covered a mysterious account uploading ostensibly unreleased Ariana Grande tracks under the name Zandhr.As it turned out, the tracks had been available online for some time, but that didn’t change the fact that a streaming account reportedly not linked to Ariana Grande, according to the BBC, was uploading her intellectual property to potentially profit off of.While the Zandhr account has since been taken down, our data suggests the fake artist accrued 9.5K Spotify followers and almost 30K monthly Spotify listeners, in addition to landing an “Ariana Grande - Every Song” playlist with some 20K+ followers of its own.Playboi Carti found himself in a similar predicament when three different fake accounts — Lil Kambo, Unocarti, and Unocompac — started uploading his tracks, with some pitch-shifting his songs in an attempt to disguise the illegitimate uploads.While both Lil Kambo and Unocarti’s profiles appear to have been taken down, the former amassed a 50K+ playlist reach from 37 playlists and the latter almost a 20K playlist reach from 19 playlists.Unocompac, meanwhile, appears to still have at least one Playboi Carti song up, enjoying 14K Spotify followers and a 30K playlist reach from 54 playlists.The best — or worst — part is that Unocompac’s artist gallery on Spotify includes three out-of-focus nighttime shots of a white suburban teenager posing and throwing up fake gang signs.Shaking my damn head.While this all might seem rather innocuous, as most of these accounts never amass more than a couple of thousand followers, it’s important to remember ...One, fake artist accounts effectively steal intellectual property and income from the legitimate artists they’re “impersonating.”And two, fake artist accounts devalue the work of all legitimate artists who have put their blood, sweat, and tears into making and marketing their art. While this phenomenon probably isn’t something to worry about in the short-term, how it’s handled now will determine how big of a problem it becomes in the long-term.With so many metadata errors, artist-song mismatches, and unclaimed blackbox royalties as a result, the last thing artists need is an army of mysterious impersonators gaming the system. OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday, July 1st, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.comAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Monday, and we’ll see you tomorrow!

Highlights  Fake streams! Playlist manipulation! Fake artists! There’s a lot of buzz about it, but what does this look like in the data?Mission   Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.DateThis is your Data Dump for Friday, June 28th, 2019.Enter the World of Streaming ManipulationLast week’s streaming code of conduct was signed by more than 20 major companies across the industry to combat streaming fraud, which is good for artist compensation and more forthcoming to the fans.How can we think about this prickly topic from a music data perspective? And when we say “this”, it’s not just fake streams. It’s also playlist manipulation and fake artist accounts.For sure, we are in very murky waters, and there is little actual data on the phenomenon.Recently American indie label Hopeless Records estimated 3-4 percent of global streams could be fraudulent.But a 2015 MBW article mentions how 60% or more Twitter followers on top artist accounts could also be fake.Granted, these are different types of fraudulent behavior, but it’s also a huge delta to try to account for.What we can do though is search for red flags in the music data available to us.For example: if we look at playlist manipulation, here’s one way to look at the data to try to identify potentially iffy behavior:We scanned the playlist charts looking for abnormally high 28-day follower increases, and found a non-editorial hip-hop genre playlist with a 262% increase in followers in the past month.While that could just be great marketing, currently having 110K followers-an impressive number-its max artist monthly listeners, however, is only ~470, which doesn’t seem to match up.This means that the only artist on the playlist that gets a lot of its unique listeners from here is getting less than 1% of its supposed followers actually listening to them.Again, possible, especially since the playlist has about 100 current tracks on it, but it’s ranked in the first third of the playlist, so it’s not likely.That artist, which only has a little over 200 followers, is playlisted among high-profile artists like Eminem, Kanye West and Cardi B, presumably to draw traffic, which would be smart marketing if done legitimately, but if so many followers are not streaming the actual tracks...it smells a little fishy.If that weren’t enough, there’s a three-piece pop band with only 16 followers, and two other rap artists who have 4 and 17 Spotify followers, respectively.All three have their listed label as a series of numbers, then “Records DK” or “DK2”, which is a default label for the distributor DistroKid, if left untouched.DistroKid is one of the most popular digital distributors available to independent artists and an official partner distributor with Spotify.If that still isn’t enough, all the playlist album artwork looks like carbon copies of official Spotify playlist album art. Again, good marketing tactic...or borderline deception?So while it’s admittedly an analytical leap, it is very possible that a playlist curator is buying illegitimate playlist followers to make themselves look good, they dupe unknowing artists into thinking they are getting amazing exposure, and the curator gets paid accordingly and in our opinion, unfairly.We could be completely 100% wrong on this, but the point is, there are certain ways you can look at the music data to try to suss out what’s likely real, and what at least should raise some red flags.We’ll try to unpack some other types of illegitimate activity from a data perspective next week.Outro That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday, June 28th, 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.Do you know how NPR does their ask for donations every so often? That’s what we’re about to do now! But we’re just asking for an Apple Podcasts rating.Rutger and I put at least a few hours a day into each episode, researching, writing, editing, recording, editing again, publishing to multiple platforms, checking analytics...and it’d be really cool for us to get some feedback on how we’re doing: the good/bad/ugly. So it’d only takes a few thumb swipes out of your day, and you’d be sending us so much joy: we’d appreciate it.As always, free accounts are at chartmetric.comAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.comHappy Friday, have a great weekend, and see you on Monday!

HighlightsFollow us down to the trigger cities of Southeast Asia where their Shazam, Spotify, and YouTube charts have some big implications for tour strategy and catalog exploitation.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.DateThis is your Data Dump for Thursday, June 27th, 2019.Trigger Cities in Southeast Asia On our blog this week, Jason did an epic analysis of Southeast Asia’s trigger cities, revealing what implications their Shazam, Spotify, and YouTube charts have for tour strategy and catalog exploitation.We’re just scratching the surface of it here.First, Shazam. From Singapore’s 41 pop genre tags to Jakarta’s 40 to Kuala Lumpur’s 37 down to Bangkok’s 30, an overwhelming Southeast Asian love of pop music in the past month would be an understatement.However, the region doesn’t appear to care much about querying hip-hop or rap, as the genre only makes a 10th place appearance in Jakarta.On Spotify, K-pop group BLACKPINK is currently the hottest act throughout the region, having 2.11M monthly listeners in the past month.Our good friend Lauv (remember him from our June 3 episode?) slides into #2 with 2.10M monthly listeners.With the exception of BLACKPINK, all other artists have US or UK origins.Given Spotify’s northern European origins and that its most popular artists are also of Western origin, this makes sense.Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, however, seems to exist in its own silo. More commonly known as Saigon, locals prefer Korean acts, sharing a love of K-pop boy band SEVENTEEN with Bangkok.But the city’s #1 most listened-to artist on Spotify is their “queen of V-pop,” Mỹ Tâm. An outlier here, however, is Ho Chi Minh City’s third most listened to artist on Spotify: Nashville’s Landon Austin.Austin’s covers are apparently catnip for Southeast Asia’s love of non-controversial pop, because his top five cities by Spotify monthly listeners are all in Southeast Asia.Should Austin be touring the region like a madman, then?Based on the available data, it sure looks like it, but we can’t rule out the possibility of bots and bought streams — for which a lot more research still has to be done.On YouTube, BLACKPINK and BTS, two of Korea’s biggest international acts, consistently appear in the top 10 artists by YouTube daily video views.Aggregating the top 10 artists of each of the six Southeast Asian cities for YouTube daily views, the #6 most viewed artist is Brad Kane. If you missed our May 16 podcast episode on Quezon City, Kane was the titular character’s original singing voice for the 1992 Disney animated film Aladdin, which has just been re-released as a live action film starring Will Smith.The fact that the New York City actor, singer, and producer’s rendition of “A Whole New World” has stirred up so much engagement 27 years later in Southeast Asia says something about how locals consume music … not necessarily to support the artist, but for their own karaoke endeavors!So, if you’re looking to exploit catalog records, this might be the perfect spot.But don’t count out domestic artists.Three Southeast Asian artists make the region’s top 10 most viewed: Bangkok trap rapper YOUNGOHM (at #4 with 1.1M daily views), Indonesian singer Nella Kharisma (at #7 with 637K daily views), and Bangkok punk rock band Labanoon (at #9 with 589K daily views).One distinct takeaway with these domestic artists is that their YouTube support comes exclusively from their home countries. Since all three are proudly delivering content in their mother tongues, they are likely limiting their global market appeal, but it’s also why they resonate so well with their fellow country people.As Jason puts it, looking at a certain market’s music data raises our awareness about who the fans are, what their specific cultural histories have been, and how they are now living as a reflection of it.  Well said, but something to consider beyond the computer screen is the fact that digital behavior doesn’t always correspond directly to behavior in the real world.Which is why, before you completely tailor your tour or marketing strategy to your streaming data, make sure you’ve considered all avenues of information.Spotify numbers don’t always translate to ticket sales.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday, June 27th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.If you want to read Jason’s piece in full and look at some pretty charts, it’s up on our blog at blog.chartmetric.io.Free accounts are at chartmetric.comAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Thursday, and see you tomorrow!

HighlightsSunday’s BET Awards had winners, losers, and everything in between. Here’s the data behind the biggest moments. 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.DateThis is your Data Dump for Tuesday, June 25, 2019.The Data Behind the BET AwardsNow that the dust has settled from Sunday’s BET Awards, let’s look at the data behind the ceremony’s bright spots.One of the evening’s most special moments happened when the award for Best Male Hip-Hop Artist went to Nipsey Hussle, who died tragically on March 31 in Los Angeles. The rapper also received the Humanitarian Award, which his grandmother graciously accepted.While Nipsey’s star was already on the rise before the tragedy, immediately following the news of his death, fans undeniably pushed his work onto the world stage, bumping him from an estimated 2.2 million monthly Spotify listeners to an April 26 peak of an estimated 11.8 million monthly Spotify listeners.His posthumous feature with John Legend on DJ Khaled’s “Higher” continues to make its presence known on Apple Music’s African and Caribbean Top 100 playlists, in addition to Hip-Hop A-List playlists as well.Speaking of, this year’s Best International Act Award went to Nigeria’s Burna Boy and the Best New International Act Award went to South Africa’s Sho Madjozi.Burna Boy is currently on 21 Best of the Week Apple Music playlists around the world, and he also finds himself at the top of Spotify’s Hot Hits UK, African Heat, and Afro Hits playlists.Sho Madjozi, meanwhile, only finds herself on four editorial playlists on Spotify but on six Best of the Week Apple Music playlists throughout Africa and a number of Top 100 Apple Music playlists in various African countries.While she’s largely regional now, Madjozi’s BET recognition indicates a growing potential for overseas visibility.Now, can we talk about how much Mary J. Blige and Lizzo owned the stage?Blige is a living R&B/hip-hop legend, and her performance on and off that stage proved it.Instead of losing followers and listeners as her music ages, she continues to gain them.In 2016, Blige’s followers sat just under 500K, but today, she’s at an estimated 1.9 million on Spotify.While the change hasn’t been quite as drastic for her monthly listenership, her shrinking listener to follower ratio and her growing follower conversion (she’s gaining at least 1K Spotify followers daily) indicates she’s still got it.Her YouTube views bolster this point by sporting a strong “weekend bump” every Friday through Sunday, suggesting people still party down with the queen of hip-hop soul.Lizzo meanwhile, can apparently twerk and play the flute all at once, but she’s got a ways to go when it comes to follower conversion.Unlike Blige’s 3:1 listener to follower ratio, which makes sense given the longevity of her career, Lizzo’s is at 36:1, meaning 17.5 million people might be listening to her a month on Spotify, but if she wants Blige’s longevity, her 500K followers are going to have to start snowballing to catch up.A high ratio for an emerging artist is usually a promising sign, however, so Lizzo has plenty to look forward to.All numbers and names aside, the real winner here was the awards ceremony itself.  OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Tuesday, June 25, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.comAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Tuesday, see you tomorrow!

HighlightsIn just over a year, King Princess has gone from 10 Spotify playlists to more than 1,000 and 5,000 Twitter followers to more than 100,000. Now, they’re on Mark Ronson’s new track, “Pieces of Us.”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.DateThis is your Data Dump for Monday, June 24, 2019.New Music Friday Monday: the Royal Rise of King PrincessIn just a year, King Princess has gone from a humble 10 Spotify playlists to a star-powered 1K, and 5K Twitter followers to 100K+. The 20-year-old, New York City-born singer-songwriter/producer now finds themselves on Mark Ronson’s June 17 release, “Pieces of Us,” which currently sits at the No. 5 spot on Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist. How’d they get there so quickly?Using the Analyze function on their artist page to compare their Spotify playlist evolution with their social follows, we can chart it.On March 9, 2018, King Princess had just under 5K Twitter followers and was only on 10 Spotify playlists.That’s great for a young indie artist, but clearly not on par with the metrics typical Mark Ronson collaborators (who include Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Adele, Miley Cyrus, and Amy Winehouse) usually boast. By June 21, 2018, King Princess got closer with almost 30K Twitter followers and 237 Spotify playlists.Mind you, that exponential jump was in a matter of just three measly months.Fast forward to March 9, 2019, and King Princess hit just a bit more than 92K Twitter followers, 374K Instagram followers, and was on 1,000 Spotify playlists.By then, they had also been booked to play this year’s Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Governors Ball festivals.                                                                                   Today, the alternative pop star has some 111K Twitter followers, 450K+ Instagram followers, about 25K Facebook fans, and sits on more than 1K Spotify playlists.In less than a year and a half, King Princess’ Spotify Popularity Index went from 0 to 75 out of 100.But it’s not all out of thin air.In February 2017, they became the first artist to sign to Mark Ronson’s Zelig Recordings, which is a Columbia Records imprint ultimately owned by Sony.It’s only natural for them to be featured on Mark Ronson’s “Pieces of Us,” which was released on June 17, and currently sits in the No. 5 spot on Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist.You might say, with a little help from Ronson, King Princess’ royal rise was written in the stars all along.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Monday, June 24, 2019. This is Rutger 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!

2019-06-20 // A2IM Indie Week, Day 3: Reeperbahn Festival HighlightsHamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival is presenting seven different acts on Day 3 of A2IM’s Indie Week, and we will check out how they’re doing in the data world.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.DateThis is your Data Dump for Thursday, June 20, 2019.A2IM Indie Week, Day 3At the corner of Allen and Houston on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC, last night, six bands shared their live music as an official part of A2IM’s Indie Week: the Reeperbahn Festival, New York Edition.Based around the entertainment and red-light district in Hamburg, Germany, since 2006, the Reeperbahn Festival will be putting on more than 900 events in the area this September with international artists of all genres, in addition to a conference for music and related industry professionals.  In the 07:30-08:00pm slot was Winnipeg, Canada’s Yes We Mystic, with their melodic and experimental indie rock sound.With 7K Spotify monthly listeners and their top four listener cities being Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Montreal, they have obviously created a stir in their home country very effectively.Half of their 2.2K Instagram followers are from their hometown of Winnipeg, so Reeperbahn has done a lovely job of finding a truly homegrown act and bringing them to a bigger stage.Jerusalem-born singer-songwriter-producer ORI graced the stage in the 8:05-8:35pm slot. Using original looping samples of his own voice and instrumentation, he’s got over 10K monthly listeners and his 2017 single “Black Book” is currently on the The Austin 100 playlist from NPR Music and the official SXSW 2019 playlist, where he played two official sets this past March.His current Spotify Popularity Index may only be at 28 for now, but his work has also been sampled by Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock.Closing out the night in the 11:20-midnight slot was Surfbort, most likely because they are a hard act to follow with their hottest tracks titled “Hippoe Vomit Inhaler”, “Pretty little fucker” and “Dicks”.The Brooklyn-based punk outfit is named after a Beyoncé lyric and is just under 20K monthly listeners and is featured on Green Day’s “Oakland Coffee” playlist as well as the official SXSW 2019 playlist, as they also played a set in Austin last spring.In other slots were Germany’s Leoniden and Gurr, Austria’s Mira Lu Kovacs, and America’s Renata Zeiguer (US), but check them out...if Hamburg’s Reeperbahn NY Edition picked them, they’re sure to be worth the listen and maybe your latest favorite sound.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday, June 20, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.Free accounts are at chartmetric.comAnd article links and show notes are at: podcast.chartmetric.com.Happy Thursday, and we’ll see you tomorrow!