http://www.musicmetric.com Musicmetric tracks what is happening to music online. We do this by data mining the web, we crawl and analyse tens of thousands of pages per day, and monitor thousands of live data sources and p2p networks to deliver a fully featured music analytics platform. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:18:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the first of a series of posts featuring music analytics for artists who are playing at South By South West. Band of Skulls This Southampton formed three-piece have been making a lot of noise across the pond. Check out this chart that shows the the top locations for the bands ... http://www.musicmetric.com/2010/03/sxsw-band-of-skulls/ Pretty unrelated to music, but regularly mining text from hundreds of millions of pages on the web can always show up some interesting stats. We decided to run a text entity extraction to find out the most popular first names in a sample of ¼ of a billion pages. Below are ... http://www.musicmetric.com/2010/03/most-popular-names/ Check out this graph of Robbie Williams' MySpace views, what could've caused it to peak so dramatically? Answers on a postcard/tweet/comment please... Personally I think  it's down to Robbie winning Best International Male at the ECHO Awards (a German music award) last night.  Robbie is pretty popular in Germany on Social ... http://www.musicmetric.com/2010/03/robbies-myspace-views/ The NME Awards have long prided themselves on being an anti-award show event, and while this year's affair was rather more civilised than previous years they still managed to fit in some decapitated heads, a rock star cat fight and a game of catchphrase... However amidst all the debauchery some ... http://www.musicmetric.com/2010/03/nme-awards-2010/ Today we are going to introduce to you another piece of technology we have developed at Musicmetric. As you may know, parts of our product are driven by semantic analysis; we don’t just tell you how many people are talking about your artists, but also their opinions, the sentiment and ... http://www.musicmetric.com/2010/01/musicmetrics-sentiment-analysis-v1-0-beta/ 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 ... http://www.musicmetric.com/2010/01/musicmetric-picked-to-represent-the-uk-with-the-digital-mission-to-sxswi/ 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 ... http://www.musicmetric.com/2010/01/midem-2010/ Here’s an interesting comparison to make: Lady Gaga vs. Susan Boyle – both are top selling artists in the physical charts so you might expect similar results when comparing their popularity online... But wait one second – comparing MySpace plays between Susan Boyle and Lady Gaga shows wildly different popularities between ... http://www.musicmetric.com/2010/01/lady-gaga-vs-susan-boyle/ 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 ... http://www.musicmetric.com/2010/01/jeremy-silver-joins-musicmetric-as-new-chairman/ Merry Christmas everyone! Check out this chart showing when people are wishing Merry Christmas to the world on Twitter. The chart shows the number of Merry Christmas tweets per 10 minute time interval since the 22nd December. [caption id="attachment_269281728" align="alignnone" width="516" caption="Merry Christmas on Twitter - Number of Tweets per 10min interval"][/caption] http://www.musicmetric.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-from-musicmetric/