Product Updates

NEW: Notable Followers

NEW: Notable Followers

The Audience tab on our artist pages now contains a Notable Followers module, where you can see the artist’s top followers on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.

These are not limited to artists, but also include labels, other music industry entities, brands, and other notable individuals.

Knowing who the artist’s notable followers are can provide a guidance for future partnership within and beyond the music industry.

NEW: Cross-Artist Track Compare

NEW: Cross-Artist Track Compare

Next to the comparison of an artist’s tracks available on their artist pages, you can now compare tracks from different artists.

After searching for tracks of interest, you can refine the chart by defining the timeframe and channel metrics. You can temporarily hide tracks from the chart by clicking the eye icon or delete them completely by clicking the x.

You can access the track comparison chart through the Compare dropdown located on the far right of the main navigation tab, or by scrolling down through your Home dashboard.

NEW: Venue Pages

NEW: Venue Pages

Last but not least, venues too got their publicly available pages.

Next to all its basic info, such as location, opening hours and contact information, a venue page contains a gallery of venue's photos, a list of its highlights, an overview of its past and upcoming events, and a list of artists who performed there recently.

Venue pages are connected to Viberate's database and thus updated automatically. Venue owners and managers can use these neatly designed pages as a quick presentation of their venues or even to replace their traditional websites.

Update: CSV Exports

Update: CSV Exports

By popular demand, we added the option to export CSVs to several modules on different tabs of the artist page.

On the overview tab, you can now export CSVs of the artist’s Total Fanbase Distribution and Daily Fanbase Growth and Engagement. On the Spotify tab, you can export the Spotify Overview data, Streams, Follower Growth and Popularity, Monthly Listeners vs Followers data and Monthly Listeners by City and Country. You can also export Audience Overview data and Audience by Country and City from the Audience tab, as well as Active Playlists and Top Tracks on Playlists from the Apple Playlists tab.

Data can be exported by clicking the Export CSV icon located in the top right corner of each module.

Update: Venue Chart

Update: Venue Chart

Our Venue Chart is no longer displaying just the venues in your selected city, but now contains all venues in our database.

To narrow down your selection, you can now filter the venues by country and city. You can still use all other existing filters such as venue type and capacity, as well as the predominant genre of events held there.

NEW: Event Pages

NEW: Event Pages

As all our other entities, Events also got their publicly available pages. 

An Event page contains all relevant info, such as date, time and location of the event, ticket availability, venue information and highlights.

Every artist on the lineup is equipped with their own card containing their basic info.

NEW: Genre and Subgenre Pages

NEW: Genre and Subgenre Pages

Each Genre and Subgenre now has their own public page. 

It features genre’s biggest starts and hottest artists, most streamed Spotify tracks overall and in the past month, most watched YouTube videos, artists with the most radio spins, top Spotify playlists, genre’s signature festivals and a visualization of genre’s geographic popularity.

Genre pages can be shared with anyone and can be used wherever a demonstration of the state of music in a specific genre is needed.

Audience Tab Update: New Sections and More Data

Audience Tab Update: New Sections and More Data

We’ve updated the Audience Tab! 

In the Overview section you can now see all artist’s channels’ fanbase and engagement. You can also check Top 5 countries and cities for each of the channels.
Furthermore, you can compare audience changes to see how the audience on each channel grew through time in different countries or cities.
Artist’s local audience in a specific country can now be monitored in a designated section.

The Audience Tab is located in the in the “Templates” drop-down list in the top right corner of the Artist Page.

NEW: City Level Analytics

NEW: City Level Analytics

You asked and we listened - we now provide city-level analytics!

A brief overview of the music scene in a specific city is followed by most popular artists on Spotify, YouTube, Instagram and Shazam. We also display most popular subgenres in the city and you can even compare artists by local popularity.

Get to know the city vibe through music by checking out its local artists, hottest venues, biggest festivals and upcoming events. 

You can access city-level analytics for your selected city though the home dashboard and check out any other city via search.

NEW: Daily Stats

NEW: Daily Stats

Daily refreshed data for Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Soundcloud can now be accessed via Daily Fanbase Growth and Engagement section on the Artist Overview.

You can now monitor Spotify followers and monthly listeners, Youtube subscribers, Instagram followers, post likes and post views, and Soundcloud followers and track plays, all on a daily basis.

NEW: Festival Pages

NEW: Festival Pages

Next to the artists, each festival from our database now has its own public page as well. It features their social media links, most popular artists that performed on the festival over the past years, chart rankings, festival highlights and amenities, image gallery and the most recent lineup.

Especially for smaller festivals, their page can serve as their own website.

If you run a festival and you haven’t claimed your page yet, do so now and take advantage of all the features your new page can offer.

NEW: Artist Pages

NEW: Artist Pages

Each artist from our database now has their own public page. It contains their most popular tracks on Spotify, most viewed YouTube videos, top playlists featuring their tracks, their past and upcoming events, notable followers and mentions, and basic audience stats.

Artist’s page can serve as their own website. Artists that claimed their Viberate pages can also use it to get booked or contacted by other music professionals.

If you’re an artist and you haven’t claimed your page yet, do so now and take advantage of all the features your new page can offer.

NEW: Apple Music Playlist Chart!

NEW: Apple Music Playlist Chart!

All Apple Music playlists are now gathered in our Apple Music Playlist Chart.

You can filter playlists by genre, type and other attributes, such as percentage of new tracks added to the playlist. Sort the playlists by new track percentage to find the ones with freshest adds to them. 

For artist-specific Apple Music playlists analytics, go to the Apple Music tab in the dropdown menu in the top right corner of the artist page.

NEW: Apple Music Playlists Added!

NEW: Apple Music Playlists Added!

To complement our Spotify playlist analytics, we now added nearly 100k Apple Music playlists. You’ll find the Apple Music tab in the dropdown menu in the top right corner of the artist page.

A quick overview of key performance metrics is followed by active playlists through time, weekly adds and drops, playlist distribution by genre, and a detailed analysis of active playlists.

With Apple Music playlist analytics, you’re now able to analyze an artist’s overall playlist performance on both leading streaming platforms.

Festival Chart Facelift

Festival Chart Facelift

Last but not least, our Festival Chart also got a makeover. Now you’ll be able to use the same functionalities that you got to know when surfing our other charts. 

Map view can now be found in the upper right corner.

Playlist Chart Update: CSV Exports

Playlist Chart Update: CSV Exports

Our Playlist Chart just got refreshed and equipped with the functionalities of the Artist and Track Chart.

Among other perks, you’re now able to export a .csv file.

Artist Chart Facelift: Improved Time Filter, Sorting, and More

Artist Chart Facelift: Improved Time Filter, Sorting, and More

Your Artist Chart just got smarter. Here are the updates:

1. New time filter enabling quicker timeframe switching.
2. New percentage change sorting pointing out the artists with the highest growth rate.
3. Filter sliders sensitivity update making it easier to define lower fanbase ranges

NEW: Let’s Compare Tracks!

NEW: Let’s Compare Tracks!

You can now compare the performance of the artist’s tracks over time in one graph. The “Compare Tracks” section enables a simple way of replicating good practice. You find it in the artist’s “Overview” or Tracks” dashboard.

HOW TO USE IT: See which track was the most successful and assess the promotional efforts behind it. Or simply compare which songs best resonate with the fans on Spotify, YouTube and SoundCloud, which are the most playlisted and radio-friendly and which caught the attention of Shazamers.

1. Select the tracks you want to compare. A default view will show you the artist’s biggest tracks. To analyze other tracks, type them in and add them to the graph. By clicking the “X” button, you’ll remove the track. By clicking the “👁️” you can compare the stats without a specific track.
2. Set the timeframe. Compare the 12-month performance to see their long-term cycle or go for a shorter 1- or 3-month period to assess recent movements.
3. Select the metric. Compare the tracks by performance on different channels.

📩 You’ve Got Mail: Weekly Report

📩 You’ve Got Mail: Weekly Report

Have you noticed you received your first weekly report email last Wednesday? We sent you an overview with recent performance metrics for every artist you follow. If you want to exclude some artists from your weekly emails, do so on your Home Page  (toggle on the right side of your "Followed Artist" Chart).

Wednesdays are for weekly reports! Check your inbox for details.

Need Some Help with Customizing Your Dashboards?

Need Some Help with Customizing Your Dashboards?

Here’s a video tutorial that will help you create shortcuts to channels, templates, and sections to quickly screen any artist. This means you can save time and have everything you need for your data analysis at your fingertips.

We Think You’d Like These Charts ❤️

We Think You’d Like These Charts ❤️

We’ve got a magical number of 13 “Recommended Charts” for you. See who’s “hot” overall, who’s rising on different channels, who has the most streams, etc. Check them out under “Saved Charts” on the Artist Chart or on your Home Page.

NEW: Track Dashboard 🎵

NEW: Track Dashboard 🎵

All the artist’s tracks are now gathered in their “Track” dashboard. Access it in the “Dashboards” drop-down list under templates or create a shortcut for quick access. It contains these sections:


1. Compare Tracks: Compare the performance of the artist’s tracks across different channels and timeframes in one graph.
2. Artist Tracks: This is a chart of the artist’s tracks. Filter them by release date or performance in different timelines and sort them by performance on specific channels.

1/2 Track Chart Update: New Design & Customization

1/2 Track Chart Update: New Design & Customization

If you like our new Artist Chart, you’ll love the refreshed Track Chart which now matches its style and performance. Customize your columns to only see the stats you’re interested in: genre, release date, rank, streams, YouTube views, Shazams, SoundCloud, etc.
Tick the “Set as default” box if this is your preferred configuration and “Apply changes”.

2/2 Track Chart Update: New Filters

2/2 Track Chart Update: New Filters

You can now apply more filters to the Track Chart to find exactly the tracks you’re looking for:

1. Country: Search only for tracks of artists from a specific country.
2. Custom release date range:  E.g., to only focus on fresh releases, we excluded the catalog music and set the release date to the past 18 months.
3. Engagement range: Do you want to find trending or best-performing tracks? Set the minimum and maximum consumption of the track.

Here’s Audience Dashboard 🎉

Here’s Audience Dashboard 🎉

You can now monitor the artist's audience in one dashboard, which comes especially handy when planning marketing campaigns.

Find the template in the “Dashboards” drop-down list and create a shortcut if you want to have it at hand. It contains:


1. Top countries in a simple overview.
2. Audience by country with a map and a detailed table of followers by channel and location.
3. Audience by city with a map and a table covering Spotify monthly listeners, YouTube monthly views and Instagram followers. 
4. Audience gender & age, visualized across channels and analyzed in detail.
 

Have You Explored the Artist Chart Yet?

 Have You Explored the Artist Chart Yet?

We Monitor 12M Playlists!

We Monitor 12M Playlists!

Our Playlist Chart is now monitoring MILLIONS of Spotify playlists of all types – from editorial and algorithmic to user-generated.

Of course, it also features all the filters you need to spot exactly the playlists with the potential to boost an artist's reach (genre, follower range and growth, type, popularity and release date of songs on the playlist, etc.)

You’ve Got a New Home Page

You’ve Got a New Home Page

The Viberate home page is now your personal analytics dashboard, summarizing all important information in one place. It’s built to simplify your workflow so it's also a shortcut to all your further analyses.

 

You can keep an eye on:

1. Recently Viewed: All the entities you’ve been checking out lately.
2. Followed Artist Chart: A sortable, customizable and exportable ranking of every artist you follow, perfect for benchmarking and easy tracking of your roster’s performance.
3. Saved Charts: Refreshed artist rankings with different pre-selected filters. The quickest solution for effective talent discovery.
4. Top Tracks From Your Genres: The songs that have been gaining traction.
5. Hot From Your Genres: Artists from genres you’re interested in, currently trending on different social media and streaming channels.

Artist Chart: Apply Filters, Save and Export Your Chart

Artist Chart: Apply Filters, Save and Export Your Chart

If you want to return to the pre-selected filters, save your chart. Return to it any time you want by selecting it from a “Saved Charts” drop-down list on the right. If you need data for further analysis, export it.

Artist Chart: Customize Your Columns

Artist Chart: Customize Your Columns

This is a hefty amount of data and you probably want to focus on some specific metrics. We got you!

Choose one of the templates or select your own configuration. You can add, remove or sort columns to create a chart you find the most useful. If you want to keep this configuration, set it as a default.

Artist Chart: How to Navigate

Artist Chart: How to Navigate

Your chart is now full-screen – it will adapt to the width of your screen to show you all the data you need. Navigate the chart using the slider below the first row or the arrows at the bottom of the screen. The chart features advanced rankings, so it’s best used on a desktop computer.

Artist Chart: Observe the Growth Indicators

Artist Chart: Observe the Growth Indicators

To quickly assess the artists' growth, check the green percentage increase/decrease compared to the previous timeframe (below the specific numbers) and the all-time numbers (above them).

Artist Chart: Sort by the Geo-location of Listeners

Artist Chart: Sort by the Geo-location of Listeners

Besides every must-have filtering option (trending artists, their genre, country, channel performance, fanbase range – you name it), you can now also sort the artists by the number of listeners in a specific country. Above, we were interested in the artists who got the most YouTube views in the USA.

Currently, the geo-location sorting is enabled for YouTube and radio, but other channels are coming soon!

One Chart = Performance on Every Channel

One Chart = Performance on Every Channel

Choose your preferred artist ranking in a drop-down list at the top or directly in the chart. You can also set the timeline you are interested in.

The Artist Chart is your essential entry point, ranking every artist out there according to their overall performance on social media and music channels.

Besides that, it features their performance on every channel respectively – Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Shazam, SoundCloud, etc.

Product update! 🎉

Product update! 🎉

You can now take your data analysis to the next level with CSV exports. Click on the icon on the right upper side of each section.

Extended CSV Exports

Extended CSV Exports

CSV exports are now also available on Deezer, Shazam and SoundCloud Analytics, meaning you can export data on every channel. To download stats for further analysis, click the “Export CSV” icon at the top of each section.

Improved Section Toolbars

Improved Section Toolbars

Sortings and filters in the Artist Analytics sections now have a unified design and are positioned on the top left side of the sections, alongside search options. That’s where you can set all of the dynamic parameters.

PDF Report for Every Artist

PDF Report for Every Artist

You asked for it and here it is – a PDF report for every artist. It contains an in-depth summary of the artist’s performance, including chart positions, career performance trajectory, fanbase and engagement breakdown, audience demographics, top tracks and videos, playlisting stats, social media performance and upcoming events.

Check it out by clicking “Download PDF” under the artist’s profile photo on the left side of the page.
 

Spotify Dashboard Now Analyzes Every Track

Spotify Dashboard Now Analyzes Every Track

We’ve added key performance metrics and streams through time to Spotify Analytics.

Additionally, you’ll now find statistics for every track (it previously highlighted the “Top 10”). Toggle between “all time”, “12-month”, “1-month” and “7-day” streams or sort the tracks by release date.

To look into analytics of a specific track, click the icon in the last column.

Help yourself with the pagination at the bottom of the "Spotify Tracks" section – this can be a hefty number of tracks 😀
 

Updated Secondary Navigation

Updated Secondary Navigation

We’ve simplified our secondary navigation on Artist Analytics. Choose your view from a single “Dashboards” drop-down list on the right. There, you’ll find music channels and social media analytics, plus templates and your saved “Custom View”.

Customize Your Analytics Workspace

Customize Your Analytics Workspace

Use our new secondary navigation to customize your analytics monitoring process. This way, you’ll analyze every artist with the metrics that are the most important to your job.

1. View by channel: 
Select channel analytics, from TikTok to Spotify, in the Channels drop-down list on the right.

2. View by dashboard:
In the My Dashboards drop-down list, select your Saved Dashboard or any of the Templates. Among the templates, you’ll find the Overview with the artist’s key music and social stats, Playlists with in-depth insights, Social Media combining all social stats, and Basic view with “Lite” information. We’ll also be adding some new templates very soon.

3. Edit your bookmarks:
Which of the channel analytics and dashboards do you need for your workflow? Bookmark them. Let’s say you work in A&R and are mainly interested in quickly screening new talent and following the progress of signed artists. The bookmarks above could work best for you.

Custom View ➡️ Saved Dashboards

Custom View ➡️ Saved Dashboards

Remember: besides bookmarking pre-made dashboards, you can also create your very own dashboard by saving the individual sections you find the most useful for analyzing artists – and in doing so save time with ready-made reports. You can find your Custom View dashboard in Saved Dashboards (access it in the My Dashboards drop-down list on the right).
 

Major Playlist Chart Facelift

Major Playlist Chart Facelift

We’ve got some new advanced playlist filters and sorting options:

1. The “One-month follower growth” sorting option helps you find the hottest playlists right now.
2. The “Playlist followers” filter sets the range of followers that you find useful.
3. The “Playlist type” filter isolates playlists with editorial, major label and indie curators.
4. The “Track release date” filter means that 30% of tracks on the playlist are released in the selected period.

Ready to find the most influential playlists in your genre?

Dig deeper into data with CSV exports

Dig deeper into data with CSV exports

Besides monitoring visualized metrics, you can now take your data analysis to the next level with data exports. CSV exports for further analysis are available on Artist and Track Analytics as well as on the Artist and Track Chart.

This feature is accessible to Premium plan users (or in the free trial if you haven’t tried the full power of music data analytics just yet) with a click on the icon on the right upper side of each section.

Above, you can see how we’ve exported Central Cee’s Spotify monthly listeners and followers.

Also coming soon: PDF exports for ready-made business reports

New chart filters: Artists and tracks you’re following

New chart filters: Artists and tracks you’re following

We’ve got a new, simple way for you to access all of the artists and tracks you’re interested in. By applying the “Following” filter in the Artist or Track Chart (see above), you’ll get a ranked list you can explore (and, circling back to this month’s main update, export).

Just to remind you: to follow an artist, go to their artist analytics and click the blue “Follow” button underneath their profile pic. To follow a track, go to its track analytics and click the blue “+” button beside the title.

How has an artist’s rank improved in the past year?

How has an artist’s rank improved in the past year?

Besides monitoring an artist’s Viberate performance points, you can now also see how the artist’s overall rank changed in the last year (access via the Career Performance section of Artist Analytics).

Above, you can see the trajectory of Steve Lacy, whose rank improved massively in the month leading to and after the release of his second studio album “Gemini Rights” (he climbed more than 600 spots from June 15 to August 15, 2022).

Look into subgenre trends

Look into subgenre trends

To help you feel the pulse of the market, you can now access basic subgenre information alongside in-depth analytics with Subgenre Analytics. For example, check the countries and cities with the most Spotify listeners and radio spins and identify the hottest social media and music channels for the artists in the subgenre.

Track Analytics: Cross-platform performance in one place

Track Analytics: Cross-platform performance in one place

After months of gathering and crunching track data, we’re happy to announce Track Analytics, covering more than 56M tracks across different platforms. You can monitor a track’s Spotify streams, playlist features, YouTube views, SoundCloud plays, Shazams, Beatport performance and radio airplay all in one place.

Give it a go yourself! To access Track Analytics, simply enter the title of the song you’d like to analyze in the search box.

Track Chart: Every track out there, ranked and analyzed

Track Chart: Every track out there, ranked and analyzed

Not only does our Track Chart rank every track by its overall performance score, you can also investigate rankings on specific channels (Spotify, YouTube, radio, Shazam and SoundCloud).

Apply a time filter to see the top-performing tracks in the last 7 days, 1 month, 3 months or 12 months, or check out the best of all time.
If you want a chart with only newly released tracks, go for the last 3 or 12 months in the “Released” filter. Of course, you can also look into genre rankings on top of that.

Check out the revamped Beatport and Airplay Performance Charts

Check out the revamped Beatport and Airplay Performance Charts

For an easier overview of how an artist or label is performing on Beatport, or how an artist is performing on radio, simply turn to the now more visually compelling charts. If you’re often working with these charts, remember to “bookmark” them for viewing in the Custom View tab.