Key Takeaways

• South Korea: Top 100 Artist YouTube consumption tended to have an inverse relationship with both coronavirus cases and web interest, indicating Koreans traded music for information as infections peaked. However, as a result of effective testing and tracing, the country rebounded quickly to normalcy on all fronts.
• Italy: Daily videos views for the Top 100 Italian artists dropped as infections increased but quickly rebounded with quarantine, generally following the infection curve from there.
• United States: The US Top 100 YouTube artists surged during lockdown, but as daily infections continued to rise, that demand failed to keep pace, perhaps because consumers…

To help address the global music industry’s concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, US-based music analytics company Chartmetric is continuously monitoring 2M+ artists across 20+ streaming and social media data sources.

We hope our data-driven analysis of COVID-19’s effects on music-related consumption helps artists, songwriters, labels, agencies, distributors, and other entertainment-related entities sustain and improve their well-being during these unprecedented times.

All data is collected, organized, and analyzed by Chartmetric. Data science by Nuttiiya Seekhao. Analysis by Jason Joven and Rutger Ansley Rosenborg.

Key Takeaways

• Spotify listenership appears to be widening for Classical, Ambient, and Children’s due to COVID-19.
• Spotify listenership is relatively…

Acid Jazz has become maybe one of the most fluid genres of the last four decades, moving between Jazz, Electronic, Hip-Hop, Psychedelia, and Soul, and bringing out the best of all five.

Over the last month, we’ve delivered everything from French Trap to Russian Indie and worldwide House to some COLORS-inspired R&B, but this week, we’re taking it back to the birth of a genre, seeing what’s been popping in the UK since the London club scene spawned Acid Jazz in the ’80s and ‘90s.

So, let’s see how we can use Chartmetric data — and a little creativity — to make that happen.

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You’ve already started routing your tour using streaming data, so it’s time to fill up those support slots.

Pretend you’re the English Indie Pop duo The xx. One thing’s for sure: You need some acts to bring on the road with you. So, where could you start, from a data perspective?

First, set your goals. You’re looking for a few emerging acts to reach out to that have a similar, but different, sound; a partially-common, but not too common, audience (to boost ticket sales and reach); and availability to tour Europe — and potentially beyond — later this year.

Second…

Let’s say you’re working with an artist who’s just about to release new music. Following the typical release cycle, the next step would be to plan out a tour to promote their new music (these days, music is really the marketing driver for revenue-generating tours and not the other way around, but that just makes tour optimization all the more important). Where do you start?

When it comes to booking tours, there are so many variables to contend with, from venues having shows already booked on the dates you want, to an outrageous distance between cities in a country as…

Ross Nicol hasn’t always been indie. Before heading off on his own to start Off Season Creative, a boutique Brooklyn-based creative direction agency with a focus in music, Ross was at a major music management firm.

While there, Ross had the benefit of working with some of the biggest artists, managers, and designers in the music industry, so he quickly learned the importance of developing and maintaining relationships — and the power of leveraging data.

On the management side of my work, it’s [data] largely considered with touring, looking at markets where a specific song, sometimes, or an artist as…

Last week, with Trap Français, we transported you to France for 15 new Trap tracks starting to sizzle in one of the premier cultural capitals of Europe.

This week, we’re going underground and undercover in Russia, where we’re turning up the noise with 10 unique Russian soundscapes.

The Russian Federation is potentially one of the most oblique music business markets in Europe and Asia, making the data-driven discovery process … interesting. But we’re up for it, so let’s peel back the Iron Curtain and see what Rock, Punk & Metal acts are bubbling up.

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Today’s measures of success on music streaming platforms come down to stream counts and followers — and for obvious reasons — but the primary movers in this regard are playlists. The more playlists a track gets added to (theoretically) the more streams and (hopefully) the more followers for the artist.

Importantly, the more playlists a track gets added to, i.e., the more playlist adds a track gets, the more significant the curatorial groundswell surrounding that track, editorial or otherwise. …