Tiny Desk, Big Impact: NPR’s Artist Influence, Quantified
Over the 20+ years it’s been in operation, the Tiny Desk Concerts series has provided an intimate performance showcase for artists ranging from T-Pain to Maren Morris to engage their fans online.
Sabrina Carpenter Is Music’s Fastest-Rising Star on Luminate Index. Here’s the Math
One particular GRAMMY-winning singer has emerged as the fastest-growing artist of the whole group: Sabrina Carpenter.
Live Music Landscape: Current Insights & Trends
In recent years, concerts and live events have seen record-high revenues and attendance, breathing much-needed life into a sector that teetered on collapse during the pandemic.
Summer Genres & Summer Songs in the U.S.
Between CharliXCX’s Brat (and its accompanying “Brat Summer”), Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” 2024 has produced several strong contenders for the “Song of the Summer” in the U.S.
Soundtracking an Eclipse
An estimated 32 million Americans live within the path of totality that stretched from Texas to Maine during the solar eclipse earlier this month on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Country Music Joins the Broader Music Ecosystem
The release of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” in 2018 may have sown the seeds of a growing cultural exchange between Nashville and contemporary Hip-Hop, R&B and Pop.
Headliners vs. Headphones
With Coachella formally initiating festival season on Friday, we wanted to explore how and why different genres enjoy outsized presence at live music events relative to what we might expect from consumption. Take these two points about Electronic music – which will be the focus of this analysis – as an illustration: