MusicMetric launches real-time band promo tools – 250 free trials for readers

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[UK] MusicMetric has launched the beta release of their music industry trend-analysis software which is targeted at bands, promoters, record labels and agencies.

The real-time trend-tracking package trawls the web using semantic analysis to make sure that all hits for a band’s name are contextually correct. This greatly reduces the number of false positives which you’d be likely to get if you’d just typed your band’s name into Google Trends, for example.

Potential competitors would be Big Champagne or Next Big Sound though MusicMetric hope to differentiate themselves by using text-derived data to measure the public opinion of your band rather than relying on counting plays and hits alone……