Bandsintown Launches City-Specific Live Music Charts
There are a ton of music charts these days, many that replicate one other. Some are meaningful to a certain audience and in turn, mean nothing to another. Others are fading in relevance with the arrival of newcomers. But there’s always room for more, right? Live music discovery platform Bandsintown has launched a series of charts that seem like they’ll fill a niche that’s been overlooked.
The company will publish 24 Worldwide, US, and City charts powered by Bandsintown data based on the interactions of its 50 million registered fans. The company claims that these generate 500,000 clicks to ticketing sites every day. The new charts will also include both tracker growth and fan engagement into its chart generation algorithm as well.
The new monthly charts include emerging and established artists as well as weekly “buzzing and emerging artist charts” for 10 of the top US music centers – Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, and San Francisco.
Bandsintown has also partnered with Billboard to publish new charts showing the top overall and rising artists both domestically and globally. Called the Billboard + Bandsintown Tour Index, they include four weekly charts that will be launching later this month.
Granular data at a city level really has never been available before in a meaningful way, which is why we never really saw a chart. The new Bandsintown charts address that and more.
