problem solved
Popular API last.fm only gives cumulative stats for artists. No growth rates, historical data, or way to compare against other artists. Music Growth solves this problem by snapshotting 37k+ artist's listener count weekly. It also captures an artist's genre, calculates their size band, and notes similar artists.
This tool is designed to help curious analysts or the artists themselves observe their own listener growth over time, as well as to compare themselves to other artists of similar size and genre. This is made possible through a Next.js frontend,
music.deanslist.dev
, where you can query individual artist statistics as well as overall leaderboard and genre-related data without needing to know SQL.
live pipeline data
artists tracked
weeks tracked
latest snapshot
growth by size quintile
| quintile | listeners | median growth | p90 growth |
|---|
architecture
music.deanslist.dev
archived
A crontab runs the pipeline every Sunday at 9 AM UTC.
♜ stack ♖
languages
ingestion & transformation
infra & storage
automation
frontend & hosting