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Blocklists & filters

Our comprehensive filters are the optimal feature to shortlist artists or songs from digital or radio charts.

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Written by David Weiszfeld
Updated over a month ago

Following growing demand, we built these filters to let you focus on only the content that interests you most. Users can now concentrate on discovery when browsing chart, songartist, radio, playlist rankings and playlists pages!

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🌎 Artist Country

Use the artist's country filter to analyze artists/charts/playlists/songs by artist nationality. You can select several countries or a group of countries to focus on the nationalities you are interested in.

💿 Playlist Country

Use the playlist's country filter to analyze playlists by based country. You can select several countries or a group of countries to focus on those you are interested in.

🚫 Blocklists

On Soundcharts, you can build your own (personal and unique) blocklists. They allow you to hide any artist, song, or label from the chart/song/artist rankings and playlists. Once activated, they are hidden across the entire platform (but remain visible in the search bar).


Chart and playlist new entry notifications can account for these blocklists - so you won't receive new entries matching these.

How to use

  1. Go on the chart/song/artist ranking or on a playlist.

  2. Select the Blocklists filter.

  3. Pick which blocklists you'd like to use between songs, artists, and labels. You need to click on All blocklists to display the charts' lines.

  4. By clicking on the small eye icon next to the artists, songs, or labels' names, you can choose to hide those that do not interest you.

    To add back an artist/label/song you hid in the past, click on the eye again. The item will be readded to your dashboard the next time you look at a chart/playlist.

    You can also manage your Blocklists in your User settings. To delete those you wish to see reappear, click on the trash icon, then select "remove".

    Blocklists are also available in our API!

📊 Label Types

With Label Types, you can now see if a song is released by a major, an indie, or a self-released artist. You can use the Label Types filter with other available filters and blocklists to hide songs that do not match your criteria, leaving you with only the desired songs in view. Also, you can search for a specific label to see all its releases in a particular chart or playlist.

How to use

  1. Go to the chart/song ranking or on a playlist.

  2. Select the Label types​ filter.

  3. Choose which label type you want to focus on.

  4. Search for a particular label.

💿 Playlist type

With the Playlist types filter, see the playlist chart by curator (Algorithmic, listeners, Editorial, radios, etc.). You can select one or several types at the same time.

👩‍🎤 Artist Genres

Use the Artist genre filter to analyze the artist chart by artist's music genre. You can select several genres at the same time. Note that this filter is only available in the artist ranking.

🎤 Song Genres

Use the Song genres filter to analyze the chart/song rankings and playlists by song genres. You can select one or several genres to focus on those that interest you.

Note that a Sub genres filter is also available in the artist and song rankings.

📻 Radio Genres

Use the Radio genres filter to analyze the radio ranking by genres. You can select one or several genres to focus on those that interest you.

💿 Playlist Genres

Use the Playlist genres filter to analyze the playlist ranking by genres of featured tracks. You can select one or several genres to focus on those that interest you.

📆 Track Age

You can also sort the radio and playlist rankings using the Track age filter:

The Track age is determined by the release dates of the songs aired over the last 7 days or playlisted. It is qualified as:

  • “frontline” if over 75% of the tracks were released less than 18 months ago;

  • “catalog” if less than 25% of the tracks were released more than 18 months ago;

  • or “mixed” if neither condition applies.

📆 Release Date

Use the Release date filter on the chart/song rankings or playlists to focus on the song's recency (last 6 months, last 12 months, last 18 months, and so on).

For example, select "last 6 months" to zoom in on the latest releases:

❤️ Favorites

Use the Favorites filter on the chart/song/artist rankings or on playlists to quickly access performances of your entire roster at a glance.

📢 Audience filters

Use audience metrics filters in the artist ranking to zoom in on a specific range of artists' performances (total value or percentage of change). Note that those are only available in the artist chart.

Examples of audience metrics: Spotify followers, Spotify monthly listeners, Instagram and TikTok followers, YouTube subscribers, and so on.

Get more details in the artist ranking article.

💿 Playlist Track count

Use the Track Count filter to analyze the playlist ranking by number of tracks in the playlist. You filter to a granular range of tracks in the playlists.

💿 Playlist's Owner

Use the Owner filter to analyze the playlist's ranking by playlist's owners. The most common owners are DSPs and influential curators such as Topsify.

💿 Playlist 28-day adds

Use the 28-day adds filter to analyze the playlist ranking by the percentage of tracks added in the last 28 days. You can filter to a granular range of changes in the playlists.

😻 Our users love it 😻

A&Rs and A&R scouts use these to search for artists with specific nationalities to sign. they also use blocklists to hide the most prominent artists or those they know they will not sign, allowing them to focus exclusively on discovering new talents in the rankings and playlists.

Curators can track a specific genre and, thanks to the Release date filter, be updated on the latest trend, improving their playlists' popularity.

With these custom filters, you can avoid overwhelming data and focus on what truly matters to you. 💎

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