MAY. 5
2010
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…
It’s actually had a rather dramatic affect; I give you exibit A…
I'm not a fan of the band but I like their music - click to enlarge
Surprisingly this trend is replicated across a fairly large number of artists. In some cases the increase has been fairly small in others the jump is more pronounced.
The speed and scale of the jump suggests that these artists have been getting a lot of visitors to their Facebook pages but have been unable to convert these visitors to fans linked to their profile. Now with the arrival of the ‘Like’ function artists are able to engage with this previously passive section of their audience.
It does appear that the initial “liking” frenzy is subsiding so it will be interesting to see whether the effect will be a long lasting one or whether people will begin to view even “liking” a band as too much of a commitment. We do expect that the new increased inter-linkedness of Facebook, and abundance of ‘Like’ buttons will have a positive effect on fan engagement.
Edit: Thanks Brendan for the message below. Some of the large effect is due to people logging into Facebook and being prompted to automatically link their profile to the profiles of the “Favourite Artists” listed in their Info section. It will be interesting to see the longer term effect is, so we’ll post an update in a week to see.
Tags: analytics, app, Facebook, Facebook like, Foo Fighters
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APR. 28
2010
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…
The BRIT Effect - click to expand
I put that big arrow there so you can see the affect… or lack of it.
Similarly there was little change in her MySpace Views & Plays. In fact the BRIT Awards coincide with a drop in plays & views but I would put that down to a regular fluctuation rather than something caused by the Award show.
MySpace Ain't Moving - click to expand
There is one site where the award had an affect… or should I say Twaffect?
No. I don’t think I should…
Twimeline of Twollowers - click to expand
As you can see Lily had a steady increase of followers from the day of the Award Show onwards; although to be fair this was probably caused by her performance at the Awards rather than the Award itself.
Alternatively it could have been her drunken acceptance speech which made people think “Hey, Lily’s pretty outspoken and entertaining. I wonder if she’s on Twitter?” In fact the second arrow shows the start of a peak which is more than likely caused by Lily’s spat with Courtney Love at the NME Awards.
What do you think? Are award shows relevant anymore? Or are they just a place for celebrities to get drunk and embarrass themselves (and then reap the publicity benefits…)
Answers on a postcard please!
Tags: app, BRIT Awards, Lily Allen, music analytics, Social Media
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MAR. 19
2010
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.
Tags: app, Musicmetric app, news
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MAR. 17
2010
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
Tags: app, BPI, charts, Market report, news
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JAN. 21
2010
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!
Tags: app, south by south west, SWSW, UK digital mission
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JAN. 20
2010
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.
Tags: app, MIDEM
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JAN. 6
2010
We are very pleased to announce that Jeremy Silver has joined Musicmetric as non-exec Chairman of our Board of Directors. His extensive music industry and technology experience will assist in steering the company during our expansion in 2010, and help ignite our drive to the international market.
Previously Jeremy was worldwide Vice President of New Media for EMI Music in London and Los Angeles. He then took the position of CEO at Sibelius Software which he led for five years, leading to an acquisition by Avid Technology. Some of Jeremy’s other music industry experience includes working as Director of Media Affairs at Virgin Records, running the ground breaking playlist-sharing music service Uplister Inc. and launching early music website The Raft.
He serves as Deputy Chairman of Futurelab, an education technology think-tank chaired by Lord David Puttnam, and regularly presents at music industry conferences around the world.
He is currently CEO of the newly created Featured Artist Coalition, a new music industry organisation co-chaired by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd and David Rowntree of Blur. Members include: Radiohead, Annie Lennox, Tom Jones, Robbie Williams, Kate Nash and many others.
Tags: app, chairman, jeremy silver
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DEC. 18
2009
We’re very proud to announce that musicmetric will be supplying top 10 charts for online activity to the UK music industry publication MusicWeek in the New Year.
The partnership was announced this week on page 2 in the magazine, along with a great article outlining what we do at musicmetric – so go out and buy your copy now, check out their website: www.musicweek.com or follow them on Twitter at @MusicWeekNews
Check back in the New Year to see the charts in print and online.
Tags: app, charts, musicweek, online buzz
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DEC. 18
2009
Our development team are proud to announce that the musicmetric hardware infrastructure and virtualisation set-up they designed has been immortalised in the book Practical Virtualization Solutions!
Possibly one of the geekier books to be featured in, they describe in one chapter how we utilise Sun hardware and virtualisation to maximise the power of our infrastructure.
If you want to read all about it, then you can purchase a copy here: http://bit.ly/8i4Xzl :-)
Tags: book, infrastructure, sun microsystems, virtualisation
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