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, 60 years of trusted global music industry data lies at your fingertips!
Benefits for Researchers:
Quick and easy access to authoritative data from Billboard, Spotify, Apple Music, GfK, Shazam, and more
Explore up-to-date sales rankings that break down current trends across different charts, markets, and countries
Investigate prior music industry trends using historical data dating back to the 1950s
Compare the relative success of artists, songs, and albums across different charts, countries, and time periods
Use hard data to confirm or deny previous theories, or to develop new ones
Customise built-in visualization tools to map out and export your data sets
Benefits for Teachers:
Utilize MusicID in the classroom to provide clear visual examples of particular historical moments or the success of particular artists, songs, or albums
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
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
Build new and innovative courses around access to 60 years of global music industry data
Learn more about MusicID's applications in real-world research