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How does the song ranking work?
How does the song ranking work?

Understanding how to use and benefit from our song ranking

Aël Guégan avatar
Written by Aël Guégan
Updated over 4 months ago

Our song ranking enables you to sort and compare up to 43 million tracks according to their performance on social media and DSPs and use customizable filters to get valuable insights. It displays the evolution of a song's performance in terms of volume or percentage over periods of 7, 28, or 90 days.

The best part is that you can also try out this feature with a free account, gaining access to the first 50 songs of the ranking!

How to understand the song ranking

Each cell includes three values:

  • The first number in white represents the song's total figures on the platform listed at the top of each column.

  • The second number indicates the evolution of the song's performance in volume.

  • The last number measures its evolution in percentage.

According to the example above, 'Blinding Lights' has more than 4.07B streams on Spotify. In the last 28 days, it has gained more than 54.4M streams, an increase of 1.35%. Its YouTube views have also increased by 1.55%, representing 11.7M views.

How to sort the chart

  1. Choose to focus on the total figures or the most significant change in volume or percentage of a song's performance;

  2. Choose a period to study;

  3. Use any column to rank songs and organize the chart.

How to filter the chart

To refine your analysis, you can filter the song ranking by artist’s nationality, song genres, release date, label type, or performance with ranges from 14 platforms' metrics - Anghami, Audiomack, Boomplay, Gaana, Genius, Jiosaavn, Line Music, Melon, Shazam, SoundCloud, Spotify, TikTok, YouTube, and airplay.

You can also activate or add blocklists to hide artists or songs that do not match your criteria, leaving you with only the desired artists or songs in view; and use the favorites filter to focus on your entire roster at a glance.

Focus on the favorites filter ❤️

Use the favorites filter to quickly access the songs' performance of your entire roster at a glance. Stay focused on how your favorite artists' catalog performs using sorts (total, growth, % growth), growth period (last 7/28/90 days), and filters available in the song ranking.

Focus on the performance filters 🚀

Use performance metrics filters in the song ranking to zoom in on a specific range of tracks' performances (total value or percentage of change). Performance metrics include Spotify streams and popularity, YouTube views, radio plays, Shazam counts, etc.

E.g. Focus on songs' performance in total value, then search for songs with a Spotify stream change between 20% and 25% over the last 28 days.

160,479 songs are matching 🤘

You can combine filters. Apply for example +1M Shazam counts and +5M YouTube views.

Now, only 4 songs are matching!

Some examples ⬇️

Focusing on American artists' pop songs, with a Spotify popularity above 90/100, we want to understand which of these songs has the highest virality on TikTok. Over the last 28 days, 'Beautiful Things' experienced the most significant increase in the number of TikTok videos created (+362.2K), followed by 'Flowers' (+127.4K) and 'yes, and?' (+119.5K).

Focusing on self-released songs with less than 1M streams and launched in the last 6 months, we want to understand which medium-sized performers might be trending and unsigned. Finally, to refine our ranking, we activated our blocklists to see only artists or songs we've not hidden in the past - and we've added 'The Three Faces of Balal' & 'Mr. Hypocrite' to our blocklist.

Export data in .csv

You can export up to 50,000 lines of displayed data in .csv. To do so, click Export CSV and receive data per email. The .csv file contains the sorted songs' data, organized per metric in total value, growth, and growth percentage.

Save customized filters

Save view lets you save all custom filters for the Song ranking. Here’s how:

  1. Customize the song ranking thanks to the different filters and sorts;

  2. Click on Save view on the right header to add a shortcut;

  3. Name your shortcut;

  4. Your configuration is now saved and visible in the left panel of the Songs section.

To delete it, click the Remove button of your saved view.

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A&Rs, playlist curators, publishers, and radio programmers must stay updated on current trends and popular music and identify emerging artists or songs that are gaining traction!

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