A new free-to-air social media music chart has today launched, providing
a unique aggregated measure of popularity across multiple social
networks and music services.
The new service, Groovecount.com,
tracks musicians across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Last.fm and Spotify,
looking at fans, followers, views, playcount and listeners to give a
comprehensive measure of fame that it calls 'Groovecount'.
The
service also ranks the top weekly and the top monthly trending artists
to give a view of shifts in popularity. Rankings are also available by
country/ region and by genre (and by both). The data is updated
continuously to provide a valuable resource on digital and social media
music trends.
Among the findings from the data are:
· Lady Gaga is confirmed as the Queen of social media, leading in overall fame, followed by Eminem and Justin Bieber.
· Rihanna is currently the top trending artist, leading both weekly and monthly charts.
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By platform, Lady Gaga leads on Twitter and Justin Bieber on
YouTube. Yet longer standing artists hold their own surprisingly well -
Michael Jackson maintains his lead on on Facebook, the Beatles are the
most popular artist (by playcount) on Last.fm, while Elvis remains the
King on Spotify.