Music

Show your musical taste with data: The best analytics tools for Spotify
Spotify analytics for listeners is how the popular streaming service also captures the hearts of its users. Many websites allow you to check these analytics if you have ever wanted to delve deeper into your listening habits — maybe to see which songs you listen to the most or compare

The Top 5 Industries That Can Benefit From Data Monetization
Data monetization can be an effective tool for helping companies and sectors boost profits and keep consumers happy. Here are five of the industries that data monetization strategies could benefit the most. Music The music industry experienced a prolonged period of upheaval due in large part to streaming services’ popularity.

Will Big Data Write The Next Hit Song?
Big data is being integrated into nearly every field. It should be no surprise that the multi-billion dollar music industry wants in. There are two major ways big data is already influencing the music industry: music creation and music selection. The second one, however, is making far more waves. It’s

Bandsintown Offering Data to Their Artists to Help Them Plan Tours
The power of data mining in searching for consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between variables is becoming undeniable. Similarly undeniable is alot of modern music tech provides great value to listeners, but meagre monetary incentive- if any at all- to the artists who use them. Bandsintown think they may have found a solution

Back in Black: Analyzing the Loudness & Tempo of the Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs
I’m Alexandre Passant, and I’m co-founder of Music & Data Geeks. We’re a music-tech company based in Dogpatch Labs Dublin, Ireland. In particular, we’re building seevl, a music meta-data API to help music services make sense of their data, provide recommendations to their users, and more. I’ve been working in

How Spotify and Shazam Predict Music’s Next Big Talent
Over the past few years, music subscription services have seen incredible growth, with revenues up by 51 percent in 2013 and the $1 billion threshold crossed. In contrast to that, over a decade of stagnation has seen Europe’s overall record sales grow by just 4.3 percent. Undoubtedly, services like Spotify,