CONNECT is an essential tool for professionals across the entertainment industry. Music labels, distributors, live event companies, rights managers, marketers, artist reps and many more rely on our data to succeed in their roles.
What can CONNECT do for you? A lot.
Artist discovery | Artist registration | Repertoire tracking
Today’s top artists are all signed. What about tomorrow’s?
What global music resonates with Gen-Z’ers outside the U.S? What regional radio outpost will break the next Latin crossover act? What platform will host the next bedroom dream-pop prodigy?
In these (hypothetical) scenarios and more, CONNECT facilitates the foundational A&R task of artist discovery, starting with Ranking Reports.
Generate ranked lists of up to 50,000 artists, songs or releases based on activity. You set the parameters for a Ranking Report; CONNECT compiles and ranks entities for you.
List up to 50k artists or songs by Streams, Product Sales, Song Sales and Airplay
Set date parameters to pull the latest data or understand trends over time
Identify top artists with crossover appeal in 60+ countries
Drill down on consumption at the market level in the U.S. and Canada
Filter by genre, release age and product attributes
Identify imprint and label data for artists and releases
Surface ISRCs with no linked artist
Luminate Music API and Luminate Data Share subscriptions offer expanded A&R possibilities. The Music API lets you run and automate custom queries using a wider variety of filters and endpoints. Data sharing (via Snowflake) grants access to all of our data and metadata.
Music API
Retrieve metadata, IDs and consumption data programmatically
Data Share
Run Ranking Reports with even more custom parameters
Set thresholds to include only artists with “between X and Y” number of streams
Rank artists by percentage growth within an activity or market
Ranking Reports can return songs or products with no linked Artist Dashboard. Some artists—especially brand-new ones—don’t have their own entries in CONNECT yet. Use our forms to register new artists and/or music for tracking.
Go to: Music registration: Add entries to our database
Trend Reports allow for detailed tracking and custom comparisons of anything in our database. Retrieve custom performance reports for up to 500 entities at once. You choose what to include in a Trend Report; CONNECT compiles data on those items within your parameters.
Analyze high-priority artists and releases in detail
Run reports for different dates and locations to track changes
Use Location and Market to isolate regional performance
Compare activity across an artist’s discography
Build your own aggregate of songs or releases to track
CONNECT Dashboards compile consumption data for artists, songs and releases.
Dashboards feature dynamic, customizable Activity displays that aggregate and refresh KPIs based on your filters. In many cases, Dashboard tools can pull up the data you need immediately, allowing you to export grids without running a Trend Report.
Dashboard data includes:
Dynamic Activity Types and Breakout Views
Metadata and details, plus all the IDs we have for an entity
Customizable filters and view options
Links between Artists, Songs, Release Groups, ISRCs, ICPNs and more
Imprint, Owner and Distributor information (Musical Rights)
Combined Discography information for artists
All ISRCs and ICPNs for Songs and Products
Campaign planning | Performance tracking and measurement
Effective marketing requires data-driven planning, strategic activation and precise measurement.
Where does my artist overperform? What markets love this song? Which formats make the most sense for this region? What subgenre is having a moment?
Music marketers can start with CONNECT’s Dashboard data—especially Activity by Location—to understand consumption at a global, local or market level for specific artists and products. Later, Activity Over Time is an invaluable tool for measuring marketing effectiveness.
All Dashboards—Artist, Album and Song—display an Activity by Location map.
CONNECT’s location data can help you understand country-level consumption patterns or plan worldwide campaigns. It can also help determine where to launch brand partnerships, activate in person, schedule tour stops or release different product formats.
See consumption data for 60+ countries
Identify your artist’s top global markets
Create your own list of countries to compare
See how Activity Type affects regional consumption patterns
In addition to country-level location data, market-level data is available for the U.S. and Canada.
Drill down on consumption at the market level in the U.S. and Canada
Create custom regions by selecting multiple markets
Decide where to activate at the local level
Use Airplay data to plan station partnerships and radio campaigns
The Analysis feature offers a high-level view of the music industry over time. It displays aggregated music consumption by location, genre and (for some account types) provider. Analysis data can help marketers isolate seasonal patterns and analyze trends by genre, region, product format and release age.
View combined activity for the entire industry
See Album and Song Equivalent KPIs
Rank total consumption within genres and markets
Filter by Release Age to compare Current and Catalog music
On all Dashboards, Activity Over Time shows consumption activity at the daily or weekly level during your selected date range. It provides a useful snapshot of artist, album or song performance within a given time frame.
Measure consumption before and after a campaign
Look for spikes around key dates (tour stops, TV appearances, viral moments)
Set different date ranges to track changes over time
Compare consumption across Activity Types
Segment data with Breakout Views
Methodology 101: How Luminate collects, models and measures music data
Migrating from Music Connect: Overview for legacy users
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