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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 Songstats 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.

Songstats: A Solid Database of Artists, Playlists and Record Labels

Songstats currently analyzes over 1M artists, 90M playlists and 50K record labels. While this is undoubtedly a vast database, one can find multiple profiles of the same artists, which negatively impacts data integrity.

2. Features

Both Viberate and Songstats 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 Songstats’ artist-related features are relatively similar, this Songstats 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.

Songstats: Artist- and Label-Focused Stats With Marketing Tools

Heavily focused on artist and record label analytics, Songstats offers a variety of in-depth analytical features.

• Songstats tracks the streaming and social media performance of more than 1M artists and 50K record labels worldwide. Their artist data is sourced from 19 platforms. Users can track streaming and social KPIs, audience demographics, playlist adds, chart performance, and more.
• Their audience analytics helps users to engage their audience more effectively by getting to know them better.
• On the track level, Songstats monitors relevant changes and movements of an artist’s tracks across top platforms and channels.
• Songstats’ marketing tools allow for swift content sharing and direct communication with fans. Marketing section also provides users with additional features such as playlist and creator recommendations.

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.

Songstats: A Single Layout With Different Levels of Access

Songstats is primarily focused on artist and label 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, Songstats delivers artist- and label-level analytics that can be used by a broad spectrum of music industry professionals. While it completely lacks discovery tools that would benefit a&rs, users can still monitor streaming and social media performance of both artists and record labels. Songstats caters to the industry by providing a relatively large database of the two most important industry entities, but performs weaker on the live music segment.

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.

Songstats: Mobile First

Songstats is a mobile-first service. Since music data analysis is a process foremostly done on desktop, this can cause quite a few difficulties. The lack of a product tour and feature explainers leaves the user wandering and learning through trial and error. Consecutively, it takes quite some time for the user to discover the platform's actual potential. The interface is not at all intuitive and the overwhelming black doesn’t positively contribute to the experience either.

With the lack of intuitive design and data contextualization, Songstats is fairly difficult to navigate and provides for a steep learning curve.

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.

Songstats: Different Levels of Data Access

Songstats offers plans based on the level of data access.

There is no free plan available for Songstats, but users can take advantage of a 7-day free trial of each plan before being charged.

Artist Plan, priced at $11.99/month, offers real-time activity feed and detailed track analytics for one subscribed artist.

A plan with the same panel of features is available to Record Labels for $19.99/month.

Full spectrum of features and access to the entire database is available with the Professional Plan for 99$/month.

A discount applies to 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.

Songstats: Check Their Terms of Service

There is very little support available to Songstats users. Both the website and the app are missing an FAQ section or a Help Center and the only information pertaining to the service can be found in their Terms of Service. Support can only be reached via email.

After subscribing, the platform lacks feature explainers and a product tour, that would make the onboarding process easier and more efficient.