If you’re heading to Midem this year and want to find out more about our exciting product launch, and chat about peer to peer tracking, social media tracking, web mention tracking and music analytics in general then pop by our stand MEDIUM 12 for a demo.

We will also be presenting real world case studies of Musicmetric Pro demonstrating how it can be useful to you and all levels of the industry. We will also present where and how companies have implemented our API to great effect so don’t miss our presentation on Visionary Monday at 4.00pm in the Innovation Factory.

At our stand we will be having an informal drop in “beers and demo” session on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th from 4pm till 6pm.

We will also have a presence at the Midem hack day so head to the presentations or register to meet the hackers if you want to discuss our API and data feeds.

Or catch us at the Music Tech Meetup @midem for networking and drinks on Sunday evening from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. More info here.

Attending from Musicmetric are:

• Gregory Mead – CEO
• Marie-Alicia Chang – Head of Business development
• Jeremy Silver – Chairman
• Jameel Syed – CTO
• Juliana Obeng – Communications executive
• Ben Fields – API / Data lead (Midem Hacker)

You can find us during the conference at stand MEDIUM 12 but if you want to organise a meeting then drop us an email on midem2012@musicmetric.com.

See you in Cannes!

Traditionally ‘ones to watch’ lists have been put together through a combination of tastemakers tips and a level of label marketing. This year, MTV UK & Ireland has taken a different tack, enlisting our help to take fans online response to an artist into account. The search for an unsigned artist ended with Context (formerly Context MC) crowned the winner of the unsigned slot on the MTV Brand New for 2012 list.

With more and more fans discovering and interacting with bands online, looking at online buzz as a major part of Brand New for 2012 is a fresh and forward looking take. The metrics we chart add a completely new and dimension, arguably giving more realistic insight as to how the artist will fare in the real world – beyond the list and label marketing.

Artists like Lana Del Rey [click for stats] making such a big impact through social media channels (such as YouTube) in the last year only serves to highlight how important these metrics are now for all artists. For MTV to allow an unsigned artist onto their Brand New list (alongside Del Rey) based on online buzz is a great step.

During the course of the unsigned competition The 500 long-list artists together generated the following across social media –

New Fans: 107,181
New Plays: 3,552,848

From the start of the competition and throughout, each artist was tracked by us providing daily statistics on which artists have risen the most in terms of their buzz; an aggregate of votes, plays, new fans and comments.

So congratulations to Context! you can check him out on twitter here

Earlier this week, brothers David and Stephan Dewaele, one half of alternative rock/electronic band Soulwax, and world-renowned DJs behind 2ManyDJs and The Flying Dewaele Brothers, unveiled Radio Soulwax.

Two and a half years in development, Radio Soulwax is a radio station but not in the conventional sense. Every week, over the next few months, the brothers will be adding a new one hour show to the Radio Soulwax website, and this will culminate in a collection of twenty-four music mixes. These will all remain online in a rotated and continuous loop, and are also available to stream and download via a fully interactive iPhone/iPad/Android application.

The Barcelona Music Hack Day, running in conjunction with Sonar festival this year was brilliantly organised, and we were lucky enough to send two Musicmetric-ers to promote our API, build some hacks and generally participate in the music-tech-geek fun.

Ben (@alsothings) presented the new additions to the Musicmetric API, and the slideshow can be viewed right here on slide share:

If Facebook has it their way music fans will be a thing of the past.

Allow me to elaborate, if I may…

When Facebook announced their new social plug-ins I was mildly interested, I could now “Like” a band instead of “Become a Fan” not that much of a difference I thought.

I was wrong…

Remember earlier this year when Lily Allen won the BRIT Award for British Female Solo Artist...

You don’t?

Well whatever…she did and at the time she was pleased as punch.

But now it appears she’s not…. apparently the BRIT Awards are one big record label conspiracy…

So was the BRIT Award worthless? Well just look what it did to her Social Network Buzz…

We’ve just pushed out a new release of the Musicmetric application for Enterprise, Professional and Essentials users. Users will get an automatic update of their version when they next log in to the application.

It features a new, improved design and some useful new functions, which are outlined below.

We’ll be releasing further functionality and data in the upcoming weeks, so look out for more updates.

New Functionality

Improved artist selection panel

We’ve rebuilt the artist selection screen, it’s now much faster to find new artists to track, and to manage your tracked artists.

Data exports

Data exports are now available for raw datasets, allowing further analysis to be made using third party applications.

New help files

Tabs now contain information panels to help make sense of the data being presented to the user.

Improved homepage

Our new application homepage is now live, showing top 20 charts as well as Musicmetric news, keeping users up to date with everything Musicmetric related.

New Design

Intuitive navigation

Navigation between tabs and sections of the application has been improved, making it easier and faster to get around the data.

Data selection

Browsing and changing between data sets is now much easier in the latest release, allowing cross comparisons and data drill down.

Load times

Application and data load times have been improved, as have the load times for drill down functionality on time series data and maps.

If anyone has any feedback regarding the new application release, please contact support@musicmetric.com and we will be happy to assist.

We’re very pleased to announce that Musicmetric data and charts are now being used by the BPI (The British Recorded Music Industry trade association) as part of the BPI monthly market reports.

The reports show in depth analysis on the state of the music industry in the UK, and are sent out to all members of the BPI.

The latest report was published today, and we look forward to supplying more data and insight as a regular feature with the BPI in the future.

BPI Market Report - Musicmetric page

Musicmetric are pleased to announce its selection for the second annual Digital Mission to South by South West interactive (SXSWi), one of the world’s leading conferences for interactive media taking place in Austin, Texas from 11-17th March 2010. Established in 1994, the conference provides an opportunity for the Digital Mission companies to attend hundreds of conference sessions and networking events.

We were picked from over 120 submissions by an advisory board of industry experts drawn from the UK community including: VC’s, export specialists, legal experts, journalist and industry pundits, to take part in the Digital Mission to SXSWi.

Digital Mission is organised by Chinwag and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), enabling digital companies to expand into overseas markets and attract investment outside the UK.

If anyone is going to SXSW and would like to meet up – just give us a call!

Musicmetric will be attending MIDEM conference in Cannes, France next week. If anyone would like a demo of our products, further information on Enterprise offerings, or would just like to meet up and have a chat about music charts, analytics, partnerships or anything else then get in touch at midem@musicmetric.com

We hope to see you there!

The Musicmetric team.