MusicID Community is a support network for our digital archive, MusicID (published by Academic Rights Press), We welcome you to network with other MusicID users, share your current research, ask for tips or get tech support for the MusicID platform, share advice, and get ideas for ways to make MusicID work for you — and we also welcome any relevant discussion about the digital humanities in music, music industry news, whatever floats your boat.
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About us: MusicID offers more than 70 years of searchable music chart data from 74 countries, in addition to revenue and global impact statistics for artists and recordings around the world. Learn more at http://www.musicidhub.com
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Melia Wong started the topic American Musicological Society – 87th Annual Meeting! in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoJoin us for the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS)! To be held online on November 11-12 and 20-21, the AMS Annual Meeting features four full days of presentations, performances, workshops and networking events. Students are welcome. Explore the conference program and register now.
Become an AMS member to save up to…[Read more]
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Kathryn Straker started the topic Revenue has been updated! in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoGood news – our Revenue module has had an update and is now current through July ’21. Which hitmakers saw a boost in sales during quarantine? Find out now! http://revenue.musicid.academicrightspress.com/index.htm
The mathematician who manages Revenue and Impact, Steve Hawtin, typically updates the module 2-4 times a year, but for obvious reasons,…[Read more]
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Kathryn Straker started the topic CFP: MusicID Digital Research Fellowship 2021 in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoMusicID Digital Research Fellowship 2021
Call for Proposals
Deadline: August 1, 2021
MusicID is pleased to announce its fourth annual Digital Research Fellowship in popular music studies.MusicID is an academic platform that compiles current and historical music industry data in a single, easy-to-use source. MusicID Data gives researchers direct…[Read more]
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Kathryn Straker started the topic Presentation THIS FRIDAY for MEIEA Meets in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoColleague Craig Hamilton, who moderated our recent panel at the 2021 MEIEA Summit, will be doing a presentation this Friday at 12 ET for the summer MEIEA Meet! The event is free for MEIEA members. Please join us for a great chance to learn some key concepts of data literacy and get an exclusive preview of his “Future is Now” module, which…[Read more]
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Kathryn Straker started the topic Symposium: "Music Industry Data in Action" Speakers and Abstracts in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe program for the upcoming symposium and workshop, “Music Industry Data in Action,” is now available!
Thursday at 13:00 Eastern I will be hosting a small, one-hour symposium highlighting some of the practical ways that scholars are currently using music industry data (record charts, song and artist revenues, etc) in their research. Andrew Ullah…[Read more]
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Kathryn Straker replied to the topic Weekly Charts Roundup in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoScroll down through thread replies for an archive of previous weeks.Apologies for the lag in chart updates, MEIEA planning has been taking my full attention. I *wrote* the chart roundups for April, but apparently forgot to post them to the internet. So let’s just skip over that and get back to it with the week before last.
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Kathryn Straker started the topic Virtual Symposium and Workshop: Music Industry Data in Action (17 June) in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoWe are excited to announce that registration is now open for MusicID‘s first ever symposium and digital workshop, Music Industry Data in Action.
About the event
At MusicID, we have the good fortune of hearing about exciting work being done by scholars in diverse fields, all over the world, every day. With so many fascinating projects on our radar,…[Read more] -
Kathryn Straker replied to the topic Weekly Charts Roundup in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoChart news for the week of March 26
UK
Albums
Justin Bieber had the most streamed album in the UK this week, getting 25.4 million track hits from his new release, Justice.In physical sales, Lana del Rey set a new record for fastest-selling vinyl of the century (for a female act). Her new album Chemtrails sold 16,700 LPs this week. She has the…[Read more] -
Roger Press replied to the topic Valuing publishing rights artist catalogues. Now David Bowie is virtually valued in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoWell, joking about Bowie aside, we know Bob Dylan has sold his catalogue of publishing rights. So how do scholars and business people go about valuing these entities? One way is to use some sparkling new tools. Createsafe has developed one.
The simulator is a precalculation model. When I first went to work at EMI my job was to live in…[Read more]
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Roger Press started the topic Valuing publishing rights artist catalogues. Now David Bowie is virtually valued in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoMusicID is a great resource to drive valuations of publishing catalogues. Read on…
Elon Musk Acquires David Bowie Songwriting Catalog Using Bitcoin, Plots “Live On Mars?” Hologram Concert
L4LM | Thursday, April 1st, 2021Modern Renaissance man and billionaire global tech pioneer Elon Musk made a splash in the music publishing world on Thursda…[Read more]
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Kathryn Straker replied to the topic Weekly Charts Roundup in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoUK
Albums
Week of March 5The last week of February in the UK charts had a milestone that I personally was quite excited about: Scottish prog group Mogwai scored their first #1 album, As the Love Continues. This week, they’ve dropped to #23, but that’s still pretty good for Mogwai. Since their first release in 1997, they’ve had ever stronger…[Read more]
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Kathryn Straker started the topic New research video! Nirvana vs. Michael Jackson in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoWe are very excited to share our latest research video, a reworking of our old insight into Nirvana’s chart performance against Michael Jackson’s. You can read about it over on our blog, or get straight to it on YouTube here. If you’d rather read it than watch it, you can get the PDF from the blog post.
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