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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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Roger Press started the topic Spotify new genre and decade-based mixes. MusicID insights gives you the data in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoWell, it is expected that Spotify will launch new types of mixes from time to time. They through their algorithms at the music and see what happens. As a scholar, with MusicID you can see the stream counts. You can work out whether they’re selecting the right music, in your opinion. Read more at Music Ally…[Read more]
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Roger Press started the topic Music Management course funded by the EU. Free to all. Enjoy the learning in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoHi All,
A colleague of mine taught music management at the Sorbonne during the last 20 years. He is part of this free music industry education programme funded by the European Union and the EEA.
http://mmmproject.eu/
Just an FYI and you can share it, of course. I’m becoming a social media maven. -
Roger Press replied to the topic History of Rock courses. Where MusicID shows what could not be seen before. in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoHere are the next courses from module 11 all the way to module 25
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Class #11: —Festivals
-Jimi Hendrix, “Star Spangled Banner” & “Voodo Chile (Slight Return)” (live)
-Cream, “Sunshine of Your Love” & “Crossroads” (live)
-Country Joe and the Fish, “Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” (live)Class #12: —White Masks
-Led Zeppelin, “The Lemon So…[Read more] -
Kathryn Straker replied to the topic Weekly Charts Roundup in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoMarch catch-up for the US here.
USA
Billboard 200
Week of March 6
1. Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen
2. Positions, Ariana Grande
3. Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, Pop Smoke
4. The Voice, Lil Durk
5. Shiesty Season, Pooh ShiestyWeek of March 13
Not a lot of commentary for this month, because as you can see, there hasn’t…[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 agoFor the week ending February 12-13
USA
Well, last week’s prediction that Morgan Wallen, who was recently dropped by his record label over his use of racial slurs, was not long for the top 40 turned out to be wrong. I should know better, with America. Dangerous sits at #1 for the fourth week.The Hot 100 has no major changes in the top…[Read more]
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Roger Press replied to the topic How does Eminem revenue change over the decade from 2010 to 2020? in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis is a commentary on Napster by a wonderful professor at uPenn, Peter Fader and Wendy Moe, written twenty years ago. This is when piracy was becoming very widespread. This analysis of the CD market is instructional for users of big data. It shows how much information available to company executives was ignored back in those days. Today big data…[Read more]
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Roger Press replied to the topic Bhaskar Menon of EMI remmebered in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAnother bio. My old boss just updated me how much Bhaskar Menon was a mentor to him, even after retirement.
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Roger Press started the topic Bhaskar Menon of EMI remmebered in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoI worked at EMI last century, and my boss told me anecdotes about Bhaskar Menon. Of course he was known as the driving force behind Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon which was in the Billboard charts for 741 weeks.
This is his moving New York Times obituary which came out yesterday.
Bhaskar Menon, Who Turned Capitol Records Around, Dies at 86…[Read more]
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Roger Press started the topic And why is recorded music streaming declining in France? in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoI love the French. But what’s with the French? Can’t get my mind around this. The pandemic is leading to more and more streaming around the world. Why not France? It is their national character? Well let’s read Music Ally and do the work to understand this.
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France recorded music revenues grew by just 0.1% in 2020
The 2020 figures are…[Read more]
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Roger Press started the topic Streaming. The latest information from Music Ally. Tremendously well researched in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDid you know that the top 500 artists on Spotify last year generated around $1.85bn in royalties from the streaming service – 37% of its overall payouts?Or did you know that the 286,000 DIY artists releasing through distributors generated $1.17bn of Spotify royalties last year – around 23.5% of the total?You do now. These are just a couple of th…[Read more]
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Roger Press started the topic The large Music Markets. Analysis by MRC data, Billboard in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoI listened to this great seminar yesterday, by Helena Kosinski at MRC Data. She is particularly interesting on Radio and the relationship of the different streaming services. It is astonishing to me what a hold radio still has over music consumption. All those top 40 stations make it nice and easy to listen.
This is the link and you just have to…[Read more]
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Roger Press started the topic How does Eminem revenue change over the decade from 2010 to 2020? in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWhat does Eminem revenue look like in 2020?
8 Mile made three times the revenue of Music To Be Murdered By. Delve into granular data for precise insights. At MusicID Revenue we calculate the indicative revenue. For each alum and single, we apply the IFPI audited revenue in each country. It is very clever mathematics which Steve worked out. How do…[Read more]
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Roger Press started the topic History of Rock courses. Where MusicID shows what could not be seen before. in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a document we have from a few years ago. It shows the structure of a 20 course History of Rock overview.
Yes, it may seem a bit long, but I wanted to share it. Nothing like the detail of a course structure to make scholarship come alive. I just find this inspiring, and a professor at Tufts gave it to me as an example we could share. I…[Read more]
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Roger Press started the topic Royalties for streaming paid by what the fans love. Yes. Soundcloud leads in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoJust in from the great people at Music Ally.
Rumours that SoundCloud would become the first big music streaming service to adopt user-centric payouts were correct. The company has just announced plans for what it’s calling ‘fan-powered royalties’.
What’s really nice is that some other streaming companies are starting to do things with tip jars a…[Read more]
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Kathryn Straker started the topic Postdoc opportunity at Durham University in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis is a close deadline, but in case it’s of interest to anyone, Durham University (UK) has a postdoc research opportunity in the digital humanities, for anyone with a PhD (or about to submit) in DH or a relevant CS or mathematics field. The listing is here:…[Read more]
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Kathryn Straker started the topic CCNY breaks ground in creating Digital Humanities minor in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIn general Digital Humanities news, CCNY (City College of New York, a part of the CUNY network) recently received a groundbreaking $150k grant to develop a digital humanities program. The initiative, which is led by Renata Kobetts Miller and Thomas Peele, will allow CCNY to establish a digital humanities minor.
CCNY’s digital humanities project…[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, 10 months agoChart news for week of February 5
United Kingdom
The honor of the top 5 albums this week goes to all British artists, the top 4 all new releases making their chart debuts.
The #1 album, Celeste’s Not Your Muse, belongs to a debut album by a British woman for the first time since 2015.
The #2 album, Money Can’t Buy Happiness by rapper Fredo was…[Read more] -
Kathryn Straker started the topic HC Site Up and Running + New Case Studies in the discussion
MusicID Community on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWe now have our HC associated site up and running, at musicidcommunity.hcommons-staging.org.
Our primary site for product and subscription information will remain http://www.musicidhub.com, but please follow the HC blog to keep up with Community announcements. Here we’ll share new case studies and research, upcoming conferences we’ll be attending, and…[Read more]
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