The internet has made it dead simple to test anything and everything when it comes to your music. Six music analytics startups are aiming to help you make informed decisions – rooted in data, not a hunch – about who you should market your music to, where, when and how:
Bandstats. I don’t care what it’s for. I just wanna play with it. Gimme.
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If content syndication and distribution is the hottest topic on this blog at the moment, then music metrics is a close second. Over the weekend, I played with a new service I read about on Hypebot called RockDex. More like Google Alerts than Google Analytics for measuring music buzz, the free point-and-shoot service leverages the API’s of several social networks to measure an artist’s volume of mentions on Twitter and Blip.fm, content on YouTube and Flickr, and fans and listens on Last.fm and iLike, producing a score out of one hundred for each category. Third-party ‘how-to’ recommendations are placed strategically next to each score in an effort to help the artist raise his social buzz and, in turn, score on RockDex. I am not quite sure how useful or even representative this service is. I am guessing that it is intended as a snapshot of a broader service to come or marketing collateral for Music Arsenal, the company’s paid web-based CRM solution for artists and record labels, reminiscent of ArtistForce.
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