Predicting A #1 Hit At Country Radio

Musicmetric’s latest study shows that it’s possible to predict a #1 hit at Country radio four weeks after a song makes its initial chart debut.

By tracking 28 metrics - including airplay along with Shazam tags, YouTube plays, downloads and other metrics - Musicmetric has found the following benchmarks to be valuable indicators:
- 3.5X more Facebook Likes per week
- 2X more YouTube plays per week
- 1.8X new Twitter Followers per week
- 2X more BitTorrent downloads per week

Musicmetric’s white paper “Cracking The Code - Predicting a Country Music Hit” is available here and marks just one of the ways an artist can be using metrics to help track and drive their own successes.