MusicID

The premier aggregator of
global music industry data

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MusicID puts powerful data and tools into the hands of researchers and strategists.

Together, our three premiere modules enable powerful insights and analysis into music and culture.

Featuring 120 years of data, MusicID is an essential resource for music academics and industry professionals.

Explore thousands of music charts updated weekly

MusicID Data gives you direct access to more than 5000 music charts from their inception, spanning 123 countries and including albums, singles, and genre charts. Our historical data begins from the 1940s; contemporary data includes Spotify streams, Shazam searches, Apple Music and more, all updated monthly.

Tracking the top-earning artists, songs and albums

Formulated from more than 200 million data points, MusicID Revenue lets you easily track the worldwide top earning recordings of the 21st century. Discover the most successful artists, singles, and albums of the last twenty years – all at the touch of a button!

Discover the cultural impact of recorded music

MusicID Impact provides a birds-eye view of popular music history, allowing you to see which recordings have had the greatest cultural impact. Built on our extensive, authoritative music chart data, MusicID Impact lets you discover the top artists, songs, and albums since 1900 – including rankings for every year, for every decade, and for all time!

MILLION LINES OF DATA

CHARTS

COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

YEARS OF DATA

MEET MUSICID

MUSICID BENEFITS

We provide the data – you give it meaning!

 

Imagine being able to easily track the impact of a hit song globally, compare an artist’s success relative to their prior output, pinpoint the exact moment when a new style broke into the mainstream, or challenge the accepted narrative of popular music history – all at the touch of a button. With MusicID, 120 years of trusted global music industry data lies at your fingertips!

For researchers

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Quick and easy access to authoritative data from Billboard, Spotify, Apple Music, GfK, Shazam, and more

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Explore up-to-date sales rankings that break down current trends across different charts, markets, and countries

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Compare the relative success of artists, songs, and albums across different charts, countries, and time periods

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Explore up-to-date sales rankings that break down current trends across different charts, markets, and countries

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Use hard data to confirm or deny previous theories, or to develop new ones

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Customise built-in visualization tools to map out and export your data sets

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A robust community of peers

For teachers

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Utilize MusicID in the classroom to provide clear visual examples of particular historical moments or the success of particular artists, songs, or albums

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Assign students hands-on exercises where they can experiment within the platform to identify large-scale trends. Particularly useful in survey courses on the history of popular music

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Incorporate MusicID as a scholarly source in research papers or as part of large-scale, data-driven projects in the Digital Humanities or Digital Social Sciences

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Build new and innovative courses around access to 60 years of global music industry data

For librarians

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Able to provide a comprehensive data and research tool for patrons

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Help guides to support users

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In addition to data and analysis, a depth of information is available via case studies

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Access to MusicID Ambassadors for lecture and panel events

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Tutorials and how to guides to refine methodology and get the most out of the system

For students

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In-depth and expansive data to craft and prove theories

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Gain essential, real-world insights into the music industry present and past

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Informative visual representations to place data context

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Discover music’s impact on culture and society through the years

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Fact and sense check assumptions

Spark your imagination with a MusicID case study

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“MusicID helps to quantify the cultural impact of music.”

Marci Cohen

Boston University

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