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1. Database

Both platforms have extensive artist databases, however, unsurprisingly, it’s not (just) the size that matters. Data integrity, specifically accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data is a prerequisite for music professionals to make accurate, informed decisions.

Viberate: Every Entity in the Music Industry

Next to 1M artists, over 18M tracks and over 12M playlists, this Chartmetric alternative also analyzes all other relevant entities of the music industry, namely labels, venues, festivals, and events. All profiles are carefully curated to ensure the maximum level of data integrity.

Chartmetric: Industry’s Biggest Artist Database

Chartmetric prides itself on the database of over 9M artists. Additionally, they analyze over 80M tracks and 15M playlists. While this is undoubtedly a vast database, one can find multiple profiles of the same artists, which negatively impacts data integrity.

2. Features

Being the two industry’s leading platforms, both Viberate and Chartmetric have a great understanding of their users’ needs. Consequently, they share many similar features. However, there are differences between the two that can tip the scale for users with specific data needs.

Viberate: Industry’s Most Powerful Artist Chart and More

While Viberate’s and Chartmetric’s artist-related features are quite similar, this Chartmetric alternative extends way over the limits of artist pages.

• Their artist chart is indisputably the most powerful chart in the industry. It ranks every artist by their overall music and social media performance. Users can narrow down their selection by applying advanced filters and sorting options.



• Viberate’s artist analytics offers the most complete overview of an artist’s performance, including channel-specific analytics and synthetic indicators for easy tracking and comparison.
• An artist’s promotional potential can be further assessed with a channel-specific drill-down of engagement and top-performing content.
• Users can follow the playlist performance of every artist and pinpoint the right playlists for the genre and mood with a comprehensive chart of editorial and user-generated playlists.



• With the use of audience analytics, users can assess an artist’s regional relevance through geographical distribution, and reach the right audience for releases and other promotional campaigns with a gender and age breakdown of every artist’s fanbase.
• With the compare feature, users can compare career trajectories, streaming, fanbase growth, engagement, demographics, key markets, etc. for any two artists side by side.
• Viberate also offers cross-channel stats of every track. Users can benchmark its performance with the track chart.



• Users can identify potential gig opportunities based on an artist's country, genre, fanbase size and location as well as their career stage with a customizable list of venues and festivals worldwide.
• Last but not least, users can also tailor their dashboards to monitor exactly the metrics they’re interested in and save time creating business reports, including CSV exports.

Chartmetrics: Unmatched Artist-Level Data

Heavily focused on artist analytics, Chartmetric offers a variety of in-depth analytical features.

• Chartmetric tracks the streaming, social, and live performance of more than 9M artists worldwide. Their artist data is sourced from over 25 platforms. Users can track playlist adds, streaming and social KPIs, chart performance, audience demographics, tour dates, sync placements, and more.
• Their audience analytics helps users to engage their audience more effectively by getting to know them better.
• Users can utilize their neighboring artists feature to find collaborators, remixers, or future band members.
• On the track level, chartmetric monitors all the relevant changes and movements of millions of albums across top platforms and channels.
• Chartmetric enables users to filter 12M playlist curators by genre, social data, and type, and sort them by playlist count, playlist followers, and growth to find the curators that are right for their music.
• Users can apply a&r tools to uncover which artists are growing most on streaming and social platforms, and who's breaking fastest on Spotify playlists.
• Chartmetric also monitors global and regional charts from more than 15 music streaming and social media platforms.

3. Target Audience

While both represent constituent parts of the music industry, artists and other industry professionals, such as a&rs and marketers, often have very different data needs. We’re looking into how each of the platforms serves both of these groups.

Viberate: Two Products for Two Very Different User Groups

Viberate addressed the needs of the two user groups, namely artists and other music professionals, by developing two very different products. Viberate for Artists focuses on the artist’s first-party data, which provides them with the most accurate data available. It’s accompanied by social media stats for a complete overview of their performance. Artists are also able to analyze playlists and pitch their tracks for placements.

On the other hand, Viberate Analytics enables music professionals to get a complete overview of the music industry, discover new artists and compare them among themselves, use different a&r and reporting tools, analyze other entities such as labels, venues and festivals, analyze the state of music in individual countries, and explore over 100 genres and subgenres.

Chartmetric: A Single Layout With Different Levels of Access

Charmetric is primarily focused on artist analytics. Different plans allow for different levels of access, but the main data pool remains the same regardless of the user’s role in the music industry.

Despite not providing first-party data, Chartmetric does provide in-depth artist-level analytics that can be used by a broad spectrum of music industry professionals. The latter can apply a&r filters and reporting tools to achieve their data-related goals, however, all of these are pertaining solely to artists, tracks and playlists. Considering the diverse group that are music professionals, there are many other relevant entities, such as labels, venues and festivals, that so far remain disregarded.

4. Ease of Use

Even a great set of features won’t go far if their use is overly complicated. A great user interface will enhance usability, ensure intuitive interactions, and significantly impact user satisfaction and productivity.

Viberate: Superb Interface According to Users

Viberate prides itself in a clean and modern design with an intuitive interface. Artist pages are extremely well organized and provide for a comprehensible flow of information. Both artist pages and charts are completely customizable, with charts allowing for several different custom views that can later be applied as needed. Users can easily navigate through the platform, find features, and access data. The latter is visualized in a way that appeals not only to analytics-savvy users, but also to those who tend to find numbers overwhelming.

Chartmetric: A Calming Experience

Chartmetric’s muted user interface promises a swift and seamless user experience. However, the latter does come with a steep learning curve. Especially on the artist profiles, the use of space, color scheme and typography becomes hard to read and interpret. Consecutively, onboarding can feel quite overwhelming. Home dashboard allows for customization, which enables users to focus on relevant metrics. While the overall user experience is not off-putting, it does require an adjustment period before task performance becomes a routine.

5. Pricing

Comparing two similar yet different platforms in terms of pricing isn’t just about finding the cheapest option - it’s about finding that sweet spot where cost high-fives value. Both platforms provide different pricing options depending on the user’s role in the industry.

Viberate: Two Different Products at Different Price Points

Each of Viberate’s paying plans enables access to a completely different set of features, developed for each of the two target groups, namely artists and music professionals.

Viberate Analytics Premium, available for €19.90/month, gives the music professionals access to Viberate’s entire database, charts with a&r filters, compare function, and all other features. A 2-day free trial is available without entering any credit card details.

Viberate for Artists Pro, available for as little as €2.99/month, enables artists to connect their streaming channels and monitor all their first-party data together with social media stats, all in one platform. Additionally, they can pitch their tracks for playlist placemats and use their ready-made website. Artists can try out Pro free for 7 days, without entering their credit card.

Chartmetric: Different Levels of Data Access

Chartmetric offers plans based on the level of data access.

A free-forever Basic Plan offers basic access to artist and playlist data with 28 days of historical data for each.

Artist Plan starting at $10/month offers full historical data for subscribed artists, with certain features limited to the last 28 days. Artist Plan can be tried out free of charge for a month.

Neither Basic nor Artist plan offers track analytics, radio airplay stats, a&r tools, or reporting features.

Full spectrum of features is available with the Premium Plan for 140$/month. There is a 7-day free trial before the user is charged.

A discount is available on all paying plans for yearly billing.

6. Support

When faced with an obstacle, swift and helpful support can make all the difference. But that’s not all that defines great user support. Features need to be presented and explained in a way that enables users to easily find and use them to accomplish their tasks.

Viberate: There at Every Step of the User Journey

Viberate’s customer support is available to everyone at no additional cost. Live chat is open during office working hours and a prompt email response is guaranteed at all other times. An informative help center is located directly on the website.

After choosing their role in the industry, users are funneled into one of the tutorials, demonstrating role-based use cases and best practices. This is followed up by a series of educational emails highlighting different features and their use.

Chartmetric: From Standard to Rockstar

Chartmetric offers standard online help center support for Basic and Artist Plan users, with rockstar support being extended to Premium Plan users. A short product tour of basic features is provided upon sign-up. Since the product is relatively complex, users would benefit from a more informative onboarding explaining different features, followed-up by a series of use case-describing emails.