We provide insights and understanding into consumer behaviour online globally for the entertainment industry. We aggregate and analyse all music related information available on the web. From websites mentioning an artist or release, the social networks frequented by music fans, peer to peer networks used to trade music and anywhere music fans leave a comment, we aim to be there and to be tracking the activity.
We currently track and index data for 600,000 artists and over 10 million individual releases – all in real time. And it’s growing. Our dashboards are used by thousands in the industry, including artists, managers, promoters, indie and major labels and broadcasters.
The Musicmetric team is made up of experts in data analysis, data warehousing and software engineering sitting alongside seasoned authorities in the music industry – all with a shared passion for music. We uniquely understand the difficulties faced in the music industry – the way it has evolved and will keep evolving – and we build the tools that labels, product managers, band managers, marketers, promoters, A&R folk all need in the 21st century to take advantage of the masses of information thrown out by the Internet.
Greg specialised in statistical data and trend analysis. He founded Musicmetric in 2007 with Matt and Marie-Alicia after noticing the lack of easily available data for the Music industry. He graduated in Physics at Imperial College London, specialising in computational physics. He enjoys live music and has been involved in organising live events throughout London.
Jeremy is Chairman at Musicmetric, and is a senior advisor to the Featured Artist Coalition. Previously, Jeremy was global VP for New Media at EMI based in London and Los Angeles, as well as being CEO of Sibelius Software, Director of Media Affairs at Virgin Records, and CEO of playlist sharing service Uplister Inc. He currently serves as Deputy Chairman of Futurelab thinktank, and also advises to the UK Technology Strategy Board.
Jameel was a founding member at Inforsense Ltd, a leading data mining and analytics company. He received a Ph.D. in Data Analysis and Computing at Imperial College London. He is the CTO at Musicmetric and heads our team of engineers. He enjoys listening to music and playing the drums.
Marie-Alicia has previously worked with Octopus/PMI for Film & TV production management software company KAI-UK. She co-founded Musicmetric and brings experience from both the software and creative industries. Marie-Alicia writes, makes music, paints and loves acting, theatre and film and has been a promoter of her own gigs and club nights in London. She graduated from UCL with a BA in History of Art.
Matt leads the development of the core infrastructure at Musicmetric, particularly the data collection and management systems in the backend. He graduated in Internet Computing at Exeter University and co-founded Musicmetric with Greg and Marie-Alicia. In his spare time he enjoys programming impossibly complex software for ancient and obsolete 1980’s hardware.
Trung leads the development of our natural language processing and machine learning systems. He has a first class BSc in Electronic Communication Systems and a MSc from Oxford University specialising in Computer Science and Machine Learning. In his spare time he is completing a Ph.D. in machine learning & sentiment analysis at UCL. He has an obsession with cool web start-ups, 80’s rock ballads and Vietnamese food.
Tom is our Systems Operations Manager and keeps the Musicmetric hardware infrastructure running smoothly. He has years of experience in the ISP world managing data-centre operations. He has a degree in Computer Science. He’s also fluent in Japanese and spent 4 years living in Japan.
Elaine keeps the Musicmetric mothership in order, and takes care of all the operations and accounts for the company, making sure everything runs smoothly. She runs our accounts, HR, office management and generally makes sure we all stay on track.
Guillaume previously held roles as lead software engineer at Thales E-Security / nCipher, software engineer at Amadeus and assistant professor at ENSEIRB. He works on core infrastructure architecture and data scalability. He has a PhD in Computer Science from IRCCyN Nantes, France. He is an organiser of the Cambridge Super 8 Group.
Izzy is in charge of data quality and coverage for the Musicmetric data warehouse. She manages our team of researchers and ensures all our systems are running smoothly and have full data coverage.
Henrik spent 6 years working at the BBC as a front end software engineer for BBC Worldwide. He’s an expert in data visualisation with an M.Sc specialising in Media Technology and Engineering with scientific visualisation. He has professional interests in information visualisation, UI design, usability and linked data.
Ben leads our data research in an attempt to wrangle some sanity into the Internet’s vast supply of horribly formed music data. He has a PhD from the Intelligent Sound and Music Systems group in the Computing Department at Goldsmith University of London. He is an expert on metadata, structured data, the semantic web and recommendation systems. He’s also a d’n’b, dubstep, heavy bass DJ and a master beer brewer.