Comments on: How Can We Tell if a Hit is a Hit? http://music.martinprosperity.org/2009/10/30/how-can-we-tell-if-a-hit-is-a-hit/ Thoughts on scenes, groups, careers, innovation & more. . . Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:22:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ian http://music.martinprosperity.org/2009/10/30/how-can-we-tell-if-a-hit-is-a-hit/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Ian Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:29:22 +0000 http://music.martinprosperity.org/?p=273#comment-74 Good point Suzanne - now that you mention it Youtube is usually the first place I look when I'm trying to track down a song, even before MySpace, because I know a text search will get me what I want fast. I think the big hole in Next Big Sound is posts on mp3 blogs - the sort of thing the <a href="http://hypem.com/popular" rel="nofollow">Hype Machine Popular chart</a> gives you. Strikes me as something that would lead Last.fm plays and Facebook fans. . . Very interesting that NBS seems to be positioning itself as a tool for BANDS rather than labels. The equivalent of this 20 years ago - something like Soundscan data - was never positioned as something the bands themselves would be interested in, as far as I know. Good point Suzanne – now that you mention it Youtube is usually the first place I look when I’m trying to track down a song, even before MySpace, because I know a text search will get me what I want fast.

I think the big hole in Next Big Sound is posts on mp3 blogs – the sort of thing the Hype Machine Popular chart gives you. Strikes me as something that would lead Last.fm plays and Facebook fans. . .

Very interesting that NBS seems to be positioning itself as a tool for BANDS rather than labels. The equivalent of this 20 years ago – something like Soundscan data – was never positioned as something the bands themselves would be interested in, as far as I know.

]]> By: Suzanne Lainson http://music.martinprosperity.org/2009/10/30/how-can-we-tell-if-a-hit-is-a-hit/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Suzanne Lainson Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:06:55 +0000 http://music.martinprosperity.org/?p=273#comment-72 I like music metric sites and have been following Next Big Sound. What I'd like to see is YouTube factored in. I know someone who does most of her music promotion through YouTube. Collectively her videos have been viewed millions of times (the last time I checked, it was 1.5 million and that was months ago, and she's added more videos since then). But that doesn't show up on Next Big Sound. She's also got fans on YouTube covering her songs, but I'm not as interested in whether NBS adds those in. I like music metric sites and have been following Next Big Sound. What I’d like to see is YouTube factored in. I know someone who does most of her music promotion through YouTube. Collectively her videos have been viewed millions of times (the last time I checked, it was 1.5 million and that was months ago, and she’s added more videos since then). But that doesn’t show up on Next Big Sound. She’s also got fans on YouTube covering her songs, but I’m not as interested in whether NBS adds those in.

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