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More Music Tech Topics covered by Chuck Fishman
Correlating Radio Airplay Spins to Music Stream Consumption
Mapping Apple Music for Artists' Shazam Data to SoundCharts Radio Play (read via LinkedIn)
Graphic demonstrating how radio play of one FSQ tune on Swiss Radio turned into 10+ Shazams in Switzerland and France
The incredibly difficult task of making Apple Music for Artists’ Shazam data count (read via Medium.com)
What happened when you have one song - Shazam’d all over the world - on one single day
Metadata, Music Consumer Search including voice, and Stream Counts
Audio fingerprints and content recognition systems are crediting new derivative works as the original songs, and the derivative works as the originals! (read via Medium.com)
So many old songs do not have “audio fingerprints” in music recognition databases, and that spells big trouble when new artists sample old works without credit
Decline in guest music artist appearances on top songs may be due to data, stream counting issues (read via LinkedIn)
Billboard Chart Beat overview from April 25th points out the lack of featured artist appearances on their top charts
Quick Take: What’s behind the decline of “featured artists” on top songs on the Billboard Charts
The tiny changes in musician artist names that can hamper search at music retail sites (read via Medium.com)
Lövestad - a Dutch music group - can’t be found on some music retailers unless you add the umlaut over the “o” on it’s name
Training voice search engines to find musical artists (watch via YouTube)
How to train voice speakers to find your music group or the artists you manage
Independent Musician Artist Profiles on Streaming Services
2020 Changes to Spotify Artist Profiles including removing reverse chronological discographies for featured artist appearances (watch via YouTube)
My 2019 Review of Apple Music for Artists Platform (read via LinkedIn)
Very little changes to the artist analytics platform in 2020 and Apple Music independent artist profiles so most of this writing is still valid to the points it makes.
Music Biz 2019 Conference: Questions I posed to the major streaming providers about their artist platforms (read via Medium.com)
Amazon Music for Artists has evolved the most since 2019, while Apple Music for Artists features are static. YouTube Analytics for Official Artists Channels is also a new offering in 2020. Here are the specific questions I asked each streaming service in 2019