August 10, 2021 Last week Hit Songs Deconstructed released its latest hit song trend report, The State of the Hot 100 Top 10: 2021 Mid-Year. To download a 27-page complimentary PDF with highlights from the report, visit: https://bit.ly/MTT-MID-2021.
November 19, 2020 Since 2018, UMEK has produced eight #1 tracks and 46 tracks that charted among Beatport’s Top 100. His label, 1605, launched 13 years ago, is also among the Top 10 labels on Beatport, signing rising talent such as Cosmic Boys, Space 92, and Teenage Mutants.
It’s one of the biggest comebacks any techno artist and label have made in recent years. How did they do it? By combining their 30-year industry experience and talent with data science – something that most of the music industry still sleeps on.
Music Business, Music Business Models, Promotion tagged Music Data, analytics, beatport, data, music business, umek, viberate September 25, 2020 The music industry is one of the sectors that the coronavirus has hit the hardest. With concerts, festivals and other live events being canceled worldwide, many music professionals are seeing a historically unprecedented loss of income. Artists, organizers, promoters and many others were quick to resort to live streaming and engaging fans online, thus strengthening the importance of digital media and increasing competition. On Spotify alone, around 40,000 tracks are reportedly uploaded daily – proving that success often comes down to simply being able to break through the noise.
Coronavirus, Music Business, Music Tech, Startup tagged Music Data, music analytics, music industry, umek, viberate January 17, 2018 The music industry is caught up with streaming and playlists and with good reasons, but what about radio? How does the future look for the radio format and is it still relevant?
August 15, 2017 Hit Songs Deconstructed recently released its Top 10 Hit Songwriting Trend Report, which details the compositional trends of the songs that chart in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 during a specific quarter across 28+ categories, including song length, genres and influences, instruments, first chorus occurrence, tempo, key and more.