PROVIDERS

Providers comprise streaming DSPs as well as digital and physical retailers.

Sample grid: Total Activity by Provider

Scroll down to see provider totals in grid form.

Provider names have been redacted.

 Only rights holders can view provider-level data.

Industry Analysis FAQs

What are Stream Equivalent and Album Equivalent?

The Analysis feature displays Stream Equivalent and Album Equivalent KPIs. Album Equivalents are used in the U.S. and Canada; Stream Equivalents are used worldwide and at the country level for all non-U.S. or Canada countries. 

Read about Equivalents here. 

Why are Time Frame options different in Analysis? 

Analysis is designed to provide market-wide aggregate data, so Time Frame defaults to Last 12 Weeks. You can also choose Last Week, Year to Date, Last Quarter, Last 4 Quarters, Last Calendar Year or a custom (weekly) date range.

The shortest allowable date range in Analysis is one week. 

Why can’t I select my own date(s)?

Analysis date spans can only be customized to the week, not the day.  Select week numbers using the column to the left of the calendar.

What is Compare To? / What are the double bar graphs? 

Within the Time Frame menu, you can Compare To a time period of equal length from the dropdown menu. There are two options: Last Period and Same Period Last Year. 

Last Period is the span of time immediately preceding your selection. If you set your date range to Last 12 Weeks, Last Period = the 12 weeks before that. 

Same Period Last Year is the same range, designated by week number, from last year. If you set a range of Weeks 1-4 of 2024, Same Period Last Year = Weeks 1-4 of 2023, even if the exact dates are not the same. 

Choosing one of these options creates double bar graphs throughout Analysis. Each pair represents your date selection (right) and the comparison period (left).

Why does Analysis appear to change from week to week? / How do you process Analysis data? 

Market-level data shown in Analysis is reprocessed back to the beginning of the last completed quarter. 

CONNECT does not close the preceding quarter of Analysis data until the next quarter. We reprocess and refresh data for up to (almost) 2 quarters at a time. This means that) data pulled from the last 6 months might appear to be in flux, especially when viewing large quarterly totals.

Why did my Analysis bookmarks/saved Analysis URLs stop working? 

Recent platform updates altered URL pathways across the Analysis feature. If you copied, saved or bookmarked URLs within Analysis, those links may be broken (sorry). Re-apply filters and Data Controls, then save the link again.

What does Release Age mean?

Release Age describes the age of a musical entity relative to the current date. We generally segment release ages into Current (released 0-36 months ago), Catalog (36-72 months) and Deep Catalog (72 months+). 

Release Age cutoffs can be customized up to 72 months. Open the Release Age menu, then select a range or use the sliders to set your own.

Are Release Ages fixed, or can they be relative? 

Release Age is calculated relative to the date(s) you select. It is not based on today’s date. 

Imagine that you time-traveled back to your selected date range. Now, some catalog music is new again for the purposes of your analysis. 

Ex. To see industry-wide performance of music <18 months old back in 2021, set Time Frame to Weeks 1-52 of 2021. Set Release Age:Current and use the sliders to define Current:0-18 months. You’ll see combined activity for releases that were current in 2021. This includes releases from mid-2019 onward—all classified as Current within your parameters.

What if a title was Current for only part of my time frame?

In that case, we’d only include activity for the weeks when that title was still Current. 

Release Age spans may begin or end within your selected time frame. A title “graduates” to the next Release Age bracket based on the number of days since its release date. If that happens during the timespan you set, it could be excluded (or finally included) per your filters.

In the above example, some 2019-2020 releases would be tracked for only part of 2021. Activity for a title from late 2019 could be included through early 2021; a title from mid-2020 might be dropped from the aggregate by the end of the year.

Are album Release Ages assigned at the Product, Release or Release Group level?

CONNECT assigns Release Age at the Product level. We track release dates by ICPN; each barcode we ingest carries its own release date information. Album reissues, expanded versions and alt editions can all have different release dates—and different Release Ages. 

Industry Analysis totals reflect this Release Age methodology. “Current” covers any Products released in the last 36 months (or within your custom span), including reissues or new editions of existing albums.