HighlightsYNW Melly’s “Murder on my Mind” hanging strong in the #2 spot on the YouTube Tracks chart in the USNew York City-based producer Yaeji is announced as part of the 2019 Lollapalooza lineupSpotify’s “Rock Classics” playlist grows steadily at 3% in the past monthMissionGood 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 March 21st 2019.Charts“Murder on my Mind”, a track from American rapper YNW Melly has been a mainstay on the recent YouTube Top Songs chart, which consists of 100 tracks that are updated every week.The Florida-based rapper released the YouTube video in Aug 2018, and it currently stands at 148M views, with 12.8M of them occurring for the week of March 8th to the 14th. It sits in the #2 spot on the Top Songs chart.This particular YouTube chart differentiates itself from the YouTube Top Music Video chart however, since tracks can also be uploaded by other users in what’s called user-generated content, or UGC. YouTube Content ID, the system that automatically detects audio, will then attribute any UGC views to the same track, which is why “Murder on my Mind” has 12.8M views on the Top Songs chart, and only 8.2M on the Music Video chart.Last month, news broke that Melly was arrested for murder charges in Miramar, Florida, which likely was a major factor in keeping the track popular in YouTube views, given its suggestive title and subject matter. “Murder on my Mind” continues a 29-week run on the Top Songs chart, which thus far peaked on February 20th.Artist Highlight in the NewsYesterday on Instagram, Lollapalooza announced its 2019 lineup, which will take place in Chicago’s Grant Park on August 1st to the 4th.On the official Lolla lineup poster, on 13th line down, is Queens-born, Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Yaeji, whose low-key banger “raingurl” is currently on 265 Spotify playlists and 59 Apple Music playlists.She is featured on Spotify’s “Soultronic” playlist, which has 130K followers, as well as one of Apple Music’s premiere “A-List” playlists, entitled “The A-List: New Artists”.Yaeji’s underground electronic sound has a smaller audience than some of her Lollapalooza peers, but it’s a loyal one: with 135K followers on Spotify, and 627K monthly listeners on the platform, that gives her a listeners to followers ratio of 4.6.So while Lolla headliner Ariana Grande has a 2.0 ratio and fellow headliner Childish Gambino has a 2.5 ratio, Yaeji’s 4.6 suggests her smaller fanbase seems to keep coming back for more listens...and will probably get some Lollapalooza tickets to boot.Playlist Round-Up Who says rock is dead? Spotify’s premiere rock genre playlist entitled “Rock Classics” hangs strong as the 11th most followed playlist on the platform at 5.3M followers.Over the past 28 days, it’s gained 164K followers (or 3%), recently passing up Hot Country in 12th place and hip-hop playlist Get Turnt in the 10th spot.Rock Classics is a personalized playlist, so the song selections and positions may differ on your profile, but you can find tracks the in the ballpark of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, the Eagles’ “Hotel California” and home of one of the most iconic American guitar riffs, “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns and Roses.The playlist tends to be energetic with the majority of the 150 tracks rating a 90 or higher in the 100-point Echo Nest Energy scale, so it should be good for parties and taking the car out for a spin.It’s obviously a catalogue-focused playlist, so don’t think of pitching any new music here, but if you work with classic repertoire, this might be one to shoot for before they update, which usually happens on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Thursday March 21st 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, virtually all this data is available at your fingertips, feel free to sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signup. That’s chartmetric (no s) dot IO slash signup.Bye for now!

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

HighlightsFive tracks stick around for 182 days on the Apple Music Daily Top 100 chartIggy Azalea drops her new single “Sally Walker” to 124K Genius viewsThe Apple Music “The A-List: Country” playlist sports a 26% new add ratio in the past monthMissionGood 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 Tues March 19th 2019.ChartsApple Music’s Daily Top 100 chart, which was initially rolled out in September 2018, shows the popularity of individual tracks on the platform, updating every 24 hours.As of yesterday March 18th, not only one, but FIVE tracks hold the record for most days on the Global version of the chart at over half a year, or, 182 days to be exact.“SICKO MODE” by Travis Scott, “Happier” by Marshmello & Bastille, “I Like It” by Cardi B/Bad Bunny & J Balvin, “Better Now” by Post Malone, and “Lucid Dreams” by Juice WRLD, have all apparently set up permanent homes on the Apple Music Global Daily Top 100.While five tracks having such staying power is impressive, it’s not as surprising that four of them are from rappers: Apple Music has shown to be particularly strong platform for such artists, with 59 of the 100 entries on March 18th’s chart labelled as “hip-hop/rap”.Artist Highlight in the NewsAustralian rapper Iggy Azalea releases her lead single “Sally Walker” on Friday March 15th.After leaving her major label deal in 2018, Azalea is set to release her new album “In My Defense” as an independent artist with San Francisco-based EMPIRE Distribution.The track “Sally Walker” has accumulated over 17M YouTube views in the three days since its release and is the #47 trending video on the platform and the #1 trending one in the Music category.It also is the #2 top song yesterday on Genius at 124K views, and surely adding to Azalea’s total of 1200 followers of her Genius profile.Playlist Round-Up One of Apple Music’s premiere country playlists is “The A-List: Country”, part of the platform’s high-profile A-List playlist series.Updated every Friday, this week’s version currently has tracks from Jason Aldean, Maren Morris and Thomas Rhett.Out of the 60 current tracks, 13 of the them are with Sony Music, 11 with Universal Music and 7 with Big Machine Label Group.As more than 75% of the playlist has been released within the past 18 months, we categorize this playlist as “frontline”, and while 26% of the playlist has been added in the past month, a handful of tracks have lived there for the better part of the year.At its extreme, the sweet ballad “Beautiful Crazy” by North Carolina native Luke Combs has been on the list for 304 days.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Tuesday March 19 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, if you want to dig into your data a little more, feel free to sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signup. That’s chartmetric (no s) dot IO slash signup.Bye for now!

HighlightsAriana Grande continues her month-long domination of the Spotify Top 200Jonas Brothers hit 20M Daily YouTube Views upon release of “Sucker”The Spotify playlist “Songs to Sing in the Car” eyes #5 top playlist with crazy follower growth rateMissionGood morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.DateThis is your Data Dump for Wed March 13th 2019.ChartsThe track “7 rings” from American pop queen Ariana Grande continues to be the most played track globally on the Spotify Top 200.The trap-influenced flex track, since Jan 30th (12 days after release), has maintained the coveted 100 point score on the Spotify Popularity Index (or SPI). If you’re not familiar with SPI, check it out on our Help Page, but it’s a backend metric from Spotify that is applied to artists, tracks and albums to communicate popularity on their platform. It’s normalized between 0-100 and changes at least once daily.Bonus data point: In our RadioWave dataset, which aggregates 300 of most influential radio stations across the US, “7 rings” is most popular in San Francisco with 573 spins, Seattle next with 495 spins, and Chicago at 392.Artist Highlight in the NewsThe Jonas Brothers make their comeback with their release of their mid-tempo pop track “Sucker”, releasing their YouTube video on Feb 28th, which currently sits at 67M views.Debuting as a group in 2005, they now scored their first #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 with the new release. During the week prior to the video, the brothers had an average of 140-150K Daily YouTube Views across their repertoire...but once the “Sucker” video released, they hit a peak of 20.9M views in one day, adding to their cumulative YouTube views total to over 177M.Interestingly, on March 5th, Indian fans beat out the rest of the world in their love for the Jonas Brothers by showing a 29K% increase in YouTube views to 388K, and beating out the next country, which was the UK at 274K. It certainly doesn’t hurt that superstar Priyanka Chopra features in the video and married Nick Jonas last year.Playlist Round-Up If you’re a train commuter, you might not be aware, but Spotify’s #6 most followed playlist is “Songs to Sing in the Car”, at 7.5M followers.Made up of pop hits from Cardi B all the way back to Destiny’s Child, it is ahead of the #7 playlist, “All Out 2000s” at 5.9M followers, and nipping at the heels of “Baila Reggaeton” at 9.1M.However, “Songs to Sing in the Car” is growing at a voracious rate of 6% in the past 28 days, which comes out to about 439K followers per month.If Baila Reggaeton doesn’t raise its current monthly growth of 85K per month, then it will be overtaken by the car singalong playlist by August 2019.Pro tip: “Songs to Sing in the Car” is a personalized playlist that shuffles rank and song selection for each individual Spotify user, so what you see in your playlist, might differ from your buddy’s.OutroThat’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wed March 13 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric, if you want to dig into your data a little more, feel free to sign up for a free account at chartmetric.io/signupBye for now!