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How does the artist ranking work?
How does the artist ranking work?

Understanding how to use and benefit from our artist ranking

Aël Guégan avatar
Written by Aël Guégan
Updated over a week ago

Our artist ranking enables you to rank and compare more than 12 million artists according to their overall or local performance on social media and DSPs and use customizable filters to get valuable insights. It displays the evolution of an artist’s audience in volume or percentage for a given period, ranging from 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 artists of the ranking!

How to understand the artist ranking

Each cell includes 3 values:

  • The first number in white represents the size of his fanbase for the platform listed at the top of each column.

  • The second number indicates the evolution of his audience in volume.

  • The last number measures this evolution in percentage.

As per the above example, Taylor Swift has more than 115.4M followers on Spotify. In the last 28 days, he’s gained more than 2.3M followers, an increase of 2%. However, her YouTube views dropped by 8,23%.

How to sort the ranking

  1. Choose if you'd like to review a ranking of artists' global audiences, or if you'd like to segment this analysis on a local per-market basis;

  2. Choose to focus on the total size or the most significant change in volume or percentage of an artist's audience;

  3. Choose a period to study;

  4. Use any column to rank artists and organize the sorting.

How to filter the ranking

To refine your analysis, you can filter the artist ranking by artist’s nationality, genre, and performance with ranges from more than 30 audience metrics.

Use the favorites filter to focus on your entire roster at a glance!

And don't forget to acctivate or add blocklists to hide artists that do not match your criteria, leaving you with only the desired artists in view.

Focus on the favorites filter ❤️

Use the favorites filter to quickly access performances of your entire roster at a glance (social media and DSPs of all the artists set as favorites).

Stay focused on how the artists you monitor perform using sorts (total, growth, % growth), growth period (last 7 days, last 28 days, last 90 days), and filters available in the artist ranking.

Focus on the 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). Audience metrics are, for example, Spotify followers, Spotify monthly listeners, Instagram and TikTok followers, YouTube subscribers, and so on.

Choose to focus on performance in total valueEg. look for artists that have between 150K and 300K Spotify monthly listeners during the last 28 days. 22,349 artists match:

Or choose to focus on performance in the percentage of changeEg. look for artists that have between 2% and 10% of Spotify monthly listeners growth during the last 28 days. 404,543 artists match:

You can combine these filters. Eg. look for artists that have more than 10M YouTube subscribers and between 2% and 30% Spotify followers growth. 94 artists match:

Some examples ⤵️

Focusing on artists from the United States producing pop music and having 200k to 300k followers on TikTok, we want to understand which artist has the most followers on Spotify, as indicated by the red arrow at the top of the second column. Jeremih has the most Spotify followers (6.61M), followed by The Beach Boys (4.56M).

Focusing on artists from the United States producing R&B and have between 1M to 2M followers on Instagram, we want to understand which ones get the most significant change in volume for Spotify Monthly Listeners. Over the last 7 days, LP has had the biggest change in Spotify Monthly Listeners, gaining 296.4k listeners.

Finally, to refine our ranking, we activated our blocklists to see only artists we've not hidden in the past, and we've added Silk Sonic to our artist blocklist. To find artists you've hidden in the past, just thick the artists' blocklist coche - here you'll see Tina Turner and Mario.

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 artist's data organized per metric in total value, growth, and growth percentage.

Save customized artists' rankings

Here’s how to save all custom filters for the Artist ranking:

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

  2. Click Save view in 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 Artists section.

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

Here is a saved view of trending American pop artists with 50,000 to 100,000 monthly listeners, sorted by growth - 1,427 artists are matching.

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Sourcing jobs like A&Rs, playlist curators, or festival and radio programmers want to discover new talents. Their main focus relies on smaller artists with a high potential for evolution.

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