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§ 07 · Labels, A&R, streaming, studios

Music, entertainment & media

The home turf — eight years of daily charts.

This is the data we were built on. Cadence reads artist momentum, catalogue resurgence and shifting taste straight from eight years of worldwide daily charts and the audio corpus.

The question this desk brings

“What’s breaking, what’s resurging, and how is taste shifting by market?”

What Cadence reads for you — now

  • Artist momentum and breakout candidates, by market, from daily chart movement.
  • Catalogue resurgence and the local-vs-global repertoire turn.
  • Genre-watching shifts on screen as a cross-media taste signal.
Example read

France, this window: francophone rap is the attention story (Aya Nakamura +325%, Werenoi +192% YoY) and local repertoire is the clear majority of chart presence (~63%, measured artist-origin) — the inward turn, in the charts and the encyclopedia alike.

Data we’d add for this sector

Sector-specific layers we can fold in — public, scrapable, API (free or via tools we hold) or datasets we already own. The signal stack extends to the question.

Short-form & creator audio Pre-chart discovery signals from short-form video and creator audio — where breakouts surface first.
Shazam & YouTube charts Shazam = discovery intent; YouTube charts via SearchApi = the other half of streaming behaviour.
Setlist.fm / Bandsintown Touring and live-demand signal — catalogue strength made physical.
Radio airplay The legacy-but-still-large exposure layer, by market.

Want this read for your market?

The France edition is open in full as the proof of craft. The same stack, cut for your desk, is one commission away.