Podcasts by How Music Charts

How Bandsintown Helps Artists Get Seen With Fabrice Sergent from 2022-04-12T03:00

Our guest today is Fabrice Sergent, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Bandsintown, where they “believe that live music is one of the last ‘tribal experiences’ which creates happiness and unders...

Navigating the Music Business With The Outlaw Ocean Project's Ian Urbina from 2022-02-15T03:00

Our guest today is Ian Urbina, the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project. The project is a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., that produces investigative stories about ...

The Power of Music Metadata With Byta Founder Marc Brown from 2022-01-28T03:00

Our guest today is Marc Brown, Founder of Byta, a music sharing app that lets artists, studios, and managers share, collaborate on, and promote secure music files before uploading them to stream...

A Fireside Chat With Chartmetric Founder Sung Cho from 2022-01-04T03:00

Before starting Chartmetric, Sung worked on Sales Cloud as the Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, he was the first employee/engineer at the publicly-traded gaming co...

Disrupting Live Music With DICE President Russ Tannen from 2021-12-14T03:00

Russ Tannen is President of DICE, a UK- and now NYC-based mobile ticketing, live streaming, and live music recommendation platform that partners directly with venues, labels, and promoters to br...

Music Trends in Arab Countries With Firas Abou Fakher from 2021-12-13T17:00

The Arab nations have rarely been viewed as important markets by the global music industry. And artists from the region have only ever achieved modest international success. Until 20 years ago, ...

Lessons for Artists and Leaders With Stem CEO Milana Lewis from 2021-12-07T03:00

Our guest today is Milana Lewis, Co-Founder and CEO of Stem, a platform making it easier for artists, managers, labels and brands to distribute music, manage contracts, share data, split royalti...

How to Distribute and Monetize Your Music With UnitedMasters' Dave Melhado from 2021-11-30T03:00

UnitedMasters’ Head of Marketing David Melhado (mel-HEY-doh) is a New York City-based industry veteran who first cut his teeth in music marketing and management in the South, holding roles at At...

From Playlists to Mailing Lists With Aileen Crowley from 2021-11-23T03:00

On this episode, we chat with Aileen Crowley, former Vice President of Global Streaming Marketing at Universal Music Group. Before leaving the major label world in November 2020, Aileen devised ...

How the TikTok Charts Influence the German Charts With Popakademie from 2021-11-16T03:00

Aqui Kumar, Jannick Steinke, Sebastian Gorki, and Valerian Dilger are music business students at the Popaka...

How to Think Like an Artist Manager With RAC Manager Zael Ellenhorn from 2021-11-09T03:00

Zael is a manager at YMU Group, a global talent management company with a roster that includes RAC, Kina, Ryan Caraveo, Ben Zaidi, and Oshi. Originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, Zael grew up ...

The Data-Driven Fandom of BTS ARMY With Ami Patel from 2021-08-24T03:00

On this episode, we chat with Ami Patel, a writer for Water & Music and a passionate analyst of the international music scene.

Ami is a music marketing strategist from Houston, Texas, ...

How Data is Redefining the Role of A&R in the Music Industry Today from 2021-06-15T03:00

On this episode, we chat with Tommaso Rocchi, a 2020 Master of Arts graduate of The Global Entertainment and Music Business program at Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain. As a former co...

Spotify Follower Ratio, Artist Growth&Fan Engagement With Components' Andrew Thompson from 2021-06-08T02:00

On this episode, we chat with Andrew Thompson, Editor and Founder of Components, a media and culture publication focused on data journalism. Originally from California, Andrew received a degree ...

How to Promote Your Music in Southeast Asian Trigger Cities With Adam Kanwal from 2021-06-02T02:00

On this episode, we talk to Adam Kanwal about the article he wrote for the Chartmetric blog entitled, How to Promote Your Music in Southeast Asian Trigger Cities. Kanwal is a Di...

Music and Mental Health in the Streaming Era With Camille Lopez-Silvero from 2021-05-25T02:00

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, on this episode, we talk to Berklee's Camille Lopez-Silvero about the article she wrote for the Chartmetric blog entitled, Listen

Playlisting and Digital Strategies for Artists With Songular’s Sam Lee from 2021-04-19T03:00

On this episode, we talk to the Founder and Director of London-based firm Songular, Sam Lee. We discuss streaming playlist strategies to grow your audience, how TikTok may or may not be for ever...

The Rise of Regional Latin Music: Latin Music Genres Evolution With Francisco Toscano from 2021-04-07T00:00

Francisco Toscano is back to discuss the final part of our series on The Rise of Regional Latin Music. Here, we will preview where he sees not only Mexican Corridos or Colombian Cumbia going, an...

The Rise of Regional Latin Music: Colombian Music Genres With Sony A&R Francisco Toscano from 2021-03-16T10:20:25

On this second episode in our Latin regional music series, we talk to A&R professional and expert in the Latin American music scene, Listen

Hip-Hop Business Strategy With Trapital Founder Dan Runcie from 2021-03-11T03:00

On this episode, we speak with Dan Runcie, the Founder of the business/hip-hop/culture media company Trapital. Launching in early 2018, Trapital began as a subscription-based ne...

Data-Driven Digital Music Distribution With InnerCat's Paris Cabezas from 2021-02-24T03:00

On this episode, we talk with Latin music mogul Paris Cabezas. Born and raised in rural Cuba, the MIT Applied Mathematics grad got his start working on the first generation of Y...

How to Be a Successful Independent Artist With Cullah from 2021-01-28T00:00

Cullah is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, based independent musician who has released an album every year on his birthday — April 27 — for the past 14 years. For his 30th birthday in 2021, he’ll be rele...

The Rise of Regional Latin Music: Mexican Music Genres With Sony A&R Francisco Toscano from 2021-01-21T00:00

On this episode, we talk to A&R professional and expert in the Latin American music scene, Francisco Toscano, who just releas...

Building Music Tech Solutions With The Orchard CTO Jacob Fowler from 2020-12-14T00:00

Today’s guest is Jacob Fowler, Chief Technology Officer at The Orchard. The company is “a pioneering music dis­tri­b­u­tion company and top-ranked video network … [with] local reps in 45 markets...

Becoming a Music Industry Leader in Asian Music Markets With Priya Dewan from 2020-12-02T00:00

Priya is an Indian citizen born in the Philippines, raised in Singapore, and educated in American schools. Just four years after graduating from Boston University, Priya worked her way up from i...

The State of Music Synchronization With Synchtank Founder Joel T. Jordan, Part 2 from 2020-11-23T00:00

At How Music Charts, we try to showcase those pushing the edge of music and data, and today we talk with Joel T. Jordan, Founder and President at Synchtank. Headquartered in London with offices ...

The State of Music Synchronization With Synchtank Founder Joel T. Jordan, Part 1 from 2020-11-16T01:00

At How Music Charts, we try to showcase those pushing the edge of music and data, and today we talk with Joel T. Jordan, Founder and President at Synchtank. Headquartered in London with offices ...

Understanding Your Pandora Data With Dan Wissinger and Jay Troop from 2020-11-10T00:00

If you haven’t heard the news, we’ve recently become the first third-party music analytics company to host Pandora data publicly, which includes stream counts, monthly listeners, and station add...

The UK Music Diversity Report 2020 With Christine Osazuwa, Paulette Long OBE&Ammo Talwar MBE from 2020-11-02T02:50

SEE THE 2020 UK MUSIC DIVERSITY REPORT HERE: Listen

Predicting the Future of the Music Business With Cherie Hu, Part 2 from 2020-10-20T00:00

Over the past few years, Cherie has been a regular contributor to multiple major music business publications, including Forbes, Billboard, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, and many more. While she stil...

Predicting the Future of the Music Business With Cherie Hu, Part 1 from 2020-10-15T00:00

Over the past few years, Cherie has been a regular contributor to multiple major music business publications, including Forbes, Billboard, NPR Music, Rolling Stone, and many more. While she stil...

BTS, Fortnite, and the Future of Concerts With Sophie Chivanova from 2020-10-12T00:00

Sophie Chivanova is a consultant for Korean concert promotion company MyMusicTaste, where she was formerly the Head of Europe & the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, i.e., nine Eurasi...

The Russian Music Industry and Concert Promotion in Asia&Europe With Sophie Chivanova from 2020-10-07T00:00

Sophie Chivanova is a consultant for Korean concert promotion company MyMusicTaste, where she was formerly the Head of Europe & the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, i.e., nine Eurasi...

Secrets of K-Pop and the Korean Music Industry With Bernie Cho, Part 2 from 2020-09-23T00:00

Bernie Cho is a music executive with more than 21 years of culture creation in the Asian music, television, and pop culture industries. As President of DFSB Kollective, a Seoul-based independent...

Secrets of K-Pop and the Korean Music Industry With Bernie Cho, Part 1 from 2020-09-17T00:00

Bernie Cho is a music executive with more than 21 years of culture creation in the Asian music, television, and pop culture industries. As President of DFSB Kollective, a Seoul-based independent...

Country, Metal, and TikTok: Digital Trends in the Music Industry With Former Sony Music Nashville VP Ed Rivadavia from 2020-08-13T03:00

On this episode, we chat with former Sony Music Nashville VP of Digital Strategy Ed Rivadavia. Ed is originally from São Paulo, Brazil, but he spent much of his early years in Europe and the Uni...

Activating Local Music Fans for the 2020 Presidential Election With #iVoted's Emily White from 2020-07-22T03:00

On this episode, we chat with Emily White, a music industry veteran who started her career as a world class tour manager before retiring at 23 to pursue artist management, entrepreneurial endeav...

Digital Disruption and Music Economics With Former Spotify Chief Economist Will Page from 2020-07-06T03:00

Will Page is an economist, a DJ, and most importantly, the biggest supporter of Tynecastle Park’s Heart of Midlothian Football Club #boysinmaroon. A graduate of Scotland’s University of Strathcl...

Career Strategies and the Future of Live Music With Paradigm Talent Agency's Diana Gremore from 2020-06-24T03:00

Originally from the sunny sprawling suburbs of San Diego, California, after graduating from the University of California, San Diego, Diana Gremore packed up all of her things and moved to New Yo...

From Business School to the Billboard Charts With Rapper Call Me Ace from 2020-06-03T03:00

Connect with Call Me Ace:
https://www.instagram.com/callmeacelegit/
https://enroll.callmeace...

From Verzuz to Quarantine Radio: Live Streams and Fan Growth During COVID-19 from 2020-05-28T03:00

We’ll still be bringing you our conversations with music industry professionals every month, but between those conversations, we’re sprinkling in important music data stories from our blog that ...

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Affects YouTube Video Views Worldwide from 2020-05-20T08:00

This week, we're reading our recent analysis of YouTube viewership changes across six different countries (South Korea, India, United States, South Africa, Brazil and Italy) and compared them to...

YouTube's Impact on Today's Hip-Hop With Ben Sauberman from 2020-05-15T05:00

Connect With Ben Sauberman:
https://www.instagram.com/ben.sauberman/
ben@sparky.wtf

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COVID-19's Effect on Spotify Monthly Listeners by Genre from 2020-04-29T08:00

We're launching something new: stories from our blog … in audio format. We’ll still be bringing you our conversations with music industry professionals every month, but between those conversatio...

Data and Digital Strategy at Republic Records With Elliott Althoff from 2020-04-22T08:00

Connect With Elliott Althoff:
https://www.elliottalthoff.com
https://www.instagram.com/ell...

How Music Collaborations Evolved in the Digital Era: A Decade in Review from 2020-04-06T10:00

Title: How Music Collaborations Evolved in the Digital Era: A Decade in Review (Jan 2020)

Article by Dr. Nuttiiya Seekhao: Listen

Expanding the Argentinian Trap Movement with Ariel Chichotky from 2020-03-27T05:00

Guest - Ariel Chichotky:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariel-chichotky/

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How Record Labels Fared on Music Charts Around the World from 2020-03-20T10:25

We're launching something new: stories from our blog … in audio format. We’ll still be bringing you our conversations with music industry professionals every month, but between those conversatio...

Uncovering Breakthrough Artists with Data: Chartmetric's 6MO Report (H2 2019) from 2020-03-12T11:45

In this special webinar replay, 6MO editors Jason Joven (Manager, Content & Insights) and Rutger Ansley Rosenborg (Digital Strategy Lead) break down their new Chartmetric Breakthrough Artist...

Indie Artist Management and Design With Ross Nicol from 2020-02-26T11:00

Guest - Ross Nicol:
https://www.offseasoncreative.com/
https://www.instagram.com/off...

Getting SiriusXM and Into Data Science With Jackson Bull from 2020-01-21T00:00

Guest - Jackson Bull:
https://twitter.com/jacksonabull
https://www.instagram.com/jacksonbull...

Global Music Marketing With Christine Osazuwa from 2019-12-20T00:00

Guest - Christine Osazuwa:
https://twitter.com/c_osazuwa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chr...

Get to Know the Hosts (Jason Joven, Rutger Ansley Rosenborg) from 2019-11-27T06:00

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My Chemical Romance’s Reunion Shows Scary Good Numbers from 2019-11-01T00:00

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  • Early 2000s emo princes of darkness My Chemical Romance dropped a special treat for fans on Halloween, revealing some incredible metrics for a band th...
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Playlist Track Journeys on Spotify's Today’s Top Hits...Where Do Tracks Go? from 2019-10-30T00:00

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  • If a song was a traveller making its way through the playlist world, what would its passport look like? What connections could we make thro...
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Track List Reveals and Music Videos: Stunts or Bumps? from 2019-10-25T00:00

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  • This week, two huge artists let the track lists of their upcoming albums slip and a couple of other big names released music videos. Let’s see if they...
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Making Growth Predictions With Our A&R Prediction Tools from 2019-10-23T00:00

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  • What does an emerging Atlanta rapper and a British TV series soundtrack have to do with each other? Let our A&R Prediction tool explain.<...
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The Young Female Artists Capitalizing on Their TikTok Virality from 2019-10-18T00:00

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  • Australian singer-songwriter Tones and I and North Carolina-born/Eastern Europe-raised rapper Ashnikko are some of the first notable case studies in T...
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Music + Fitness: Shaping Up Spotify and Deezer’s Top Workout Playlists from 2019-10-16T00:00

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  • Peloton’s recent IPO has us wondering about the most popular fitness playlists on Spotify and Deezer, so slap on some cross-trainers and fire...
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Take a Psych Trip Through Labrinth’s ‘Euphoria’ from 2019-10-11T00:00

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  • UK singer-songwriter and producer prodigy Labrinth has created a hallucinatory experience with his soundtrack of HBO’s new show Euphoria, and...
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Eating "Chicken Noodle Soup" with j-hope and Becky G from 2019-10-09T00:00

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  • If you don’t eat chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side yet, then at least check out how a member of K-pop supergroup BTS tapped a 2006 ...
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6MO Global Music Industry Data Report, Part 2: Platform-Playlist Analysis from 2019-10-04T00:00

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  • Rolling Stone, Music Ally, and others were particularly interested in a surprising data point from Part 2 of Listen

6MO Global Music Industry Data Report, Part 1: Semi-Annual Awards from 2019-10-02T00:00

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  • It’s official: We've launched 6MO, our first-ever Global Music Industry Data Report! We're thrilled to p...
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The Cherie Hu Preview-Review of Our Inaugural Global Music Industry Data Report from 2019-09-27T00:00

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  • For the past couple of months, we’ve been cooking up something big: the first iteration of our Global Music Industry Data Report, 6MO! With the help o...
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Radio in the Streaming Era: US Radio Facts for Streaming Experts from 2019-09-25T00:00

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  • Obsessed with streaming? Rightfully so, but after almost a year of coverage on Chartmetric, let’s go over some useful US radio facts that m...
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Taylor Swift enjoys Chinese success on QQ Music, with R3HAB set to in the near future with Tencent from 2019-09-20T00:00

2019-09-20 // Taylor Swift enjoys Chinese success on QQ Music, with R3HAB set to in the near future with Tencent

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Post Malone&Reggaeton Lead Track Longevity on Streaming Charts from 2019-09-18T00:00

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  • Streaming might favor frontline singles, but some tracks buck the trend. Looking at Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and Deezer’s Top 100 charts, we examine wh...
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Apple vs. YouTube Music Video Velocity from 2019-09-13T00:00

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  • With a head-to-head comparison between the Apple Music Video and YouTube Music Video charts, we’ll expand your understanding of chart behavior through...
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Tool, Metal’s Growth, and the Future of the Album from 2019-09-11T00:00

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  • When was the last time you got your face melted with some heavy metal? Well, distributor TuneCore says it was probably during 2018 and Amer...
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Data Predictions for the 2019 Country Music Association Awards from 2019-09-06T00:00

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  • Howdy! Today, we’re going Country, looking at the CMAs’ full list of nominations and making some educated guesses about who might win based on streami...
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Viral Artists on our newest A&R Tool: Not all Platforms Are Created Equal! from 2019-09-04T00:00

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  • Not all breaking artists are new artists, not all platforms have the same up and comers, and not a day more should pass until you check out...
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The Music Awards Effect: Bump or Bust? from 2019-08-30T00:00

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  • Don’t call it a comeback: This week, the VMAs wrapped and the CMAs dropped their noms, but do the ceremonies even matter to an artist’s bottom line? L...
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Know Thy Neighbor: Identifying Pusha T's Artist Neighbors from 2019-08-28T00:00

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  • Know thy neighbor, you may have been told, and to that us music data nerds would say, know thy artist neighbor...we’ll do so with rapper Pu...
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Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’, Celso Piña’s Passing, and Monsta X’s Big Win from 2019-08-23T00:00

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  • Follow us around the world as we examine T. Swift’s album drop, remember a Mexican cumbia legend, and recognize Korea’s finest through the market cove...
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Unpacking Shazam's New Discovery Top 50 Playlist on Apple Music from 2019-08-22T00:00

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  • What better A&R team to have then over 150M smartphones Shazam...
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The Top YouTube Playlists to Land On from 2019-08-16T00:00

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  • YouTube’s global importance is no secret, but monitoring its playlist performance hasn’t always been easy. Using our new YouTube Playlists chart, you ...
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Music on TikTok Top Tracks and Trending Videos from 2019-08-15T00:00

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  • TikTok is the new game, but it’s already the 2nd quarter. Let’s dive into one of our newest features, TikTok Top Track and Trending Videos ...
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When Streaming Gets Political, Who Gets the Vote? from 2019-08-09T00:00

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  • We do our best to stay out of the political fray, but with the Democratic debates wrapping last week, we look at the candidates’ streaming profiles to...
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Katy Perry, Flame and the Effects of Publicity from 2019-08-07T00:00

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  • What happens when a global artist gets sued by another for copyright infringement? Not much for the former, but a notable increase for the ...
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How 2019’s Playlist Growth Might Affect Emerging Artists from 2019-08-02T00:00

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  • Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer’s biggest playlists are growing — both in terms of follower count and also track count — but what does that mean for ...
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New Feature: Labels Page from 2019-07-31T00:00

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  • Are you a manager looking for a quick summary of a record label you’re talking to? Maybe you want to compare the label you work for with a ...
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Odd Subgenres Gaining Ground on Streaming’s Top Playlists from 2019-07-26T00:00

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  • What’s in a name? For the subgenre game on Spotify, Apple, Deezer, and Amazon’s top playlists … a lot.
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