To access your artist social media fan location data, head to the “Fan Locations” page under the “Social Media” heading.

Currently, Musicmetric track fan location to country on Twitter, and to city on Myspace, according to the information that users have uploaded on their social network pages. The geographic distribution of artist fans and followers is displayed on our map, with darker colours indicating greater distribution of fans. The Location Panel to the right of the map displays a list of the top ranking regions for your metric.

Combined with our torrent downloads map, this gives a good general overview of the markets that exist for artists, both on a national and international scale, and can be a useful tool for a variety of purposes, such as optimising tour schedules, or targeting geographical segments of the market.

The below screenshot shows the distribution of Myspace fans for the UK band Bloc Party. As you can see, the vast majority of Myspace fans for the artist reside in the US:

By clicking the small icon next to the site name, you can switch the map to display the location of Twitter followers. The distribution here is more even, with significant proportions of fans located in Europe, North America, Oceania and South America:

You can zoom into the map using the + and – buttons in the top left of the map window. If you hover your cursor over a country, you can see the metric value for that region:

In addition to the top ranked countries, The Location Panel can also display the top cities. Simply click on the “Cities” label. Using the drop-down menu, you can then choose to view the top cities within a certain country: