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The benefits for institutions and faculty: Makes new lines of academic inquiry possible Intergrates our unique Sales Rankings with a timeline of World Events to give scholars a complete picture of the impact of music in social, political, and cultural contexts worldwide Encourages real rigor in scholarly investigations in the humanities Provides the opportunity to deliver new and inventive courses

Big Data comes to music and entertainment studies - and opens new avenues of research Music ID is a growing repository of historical and current sales data spanning 60 years from over 30 countries. Billboard, Official Chart Company, Gfk Entertainment and many more reporting agencies in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and elsewhere provide the data. This data is presented in highly interactive, feature-rich tables and graphs where for the first time faculty and students can derive an amazing amount of information about their research questions and the business of music around the world. A wealth of Case Studies show faculty and students how music sales data can be applied in Music, Performance, Entertainment Industry, Business Studies, Film & Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science, Humanities, History and Statistics. New insights into the cultural context when the Rolling Stones first toured the U.S. in 1964? How does a classical artist cross over to pop?

Supports the trend towards interdisciplinary academic study Attracts new students who are looking for data-driven research opportunities

The benefits for students: Links academic study with real world commercial opportunities • communication and media (e.g. radio, TV, the printed press) • arts and cultural administration (e.g., orchestras, music festivals and institutions) • archives and libraries • publishing and the recording industry • music technology • organizations promoting national and international cultural collaboration

Allows students to export data in spreadsheets and to export Sales Rankings for use in coursework. Provides a fresh, data-driven lens into the musical achievements of musicians, songwriters and composers across countries and cultures.

Music ID informs research Music ID’s content is tremendously valuable; the charts from which it derives its data go back, in some cases, more than 60 years... the product already fills such a significant need for music researchers. The Charleston Advisor

Music ID’s...set(s) itself apart from other online music resources by using analytical tools to gauge the impact of classical, jazz, and pop music all Booklist Online over the world.

Advanced search and scholarly integration

Data displayed in Sales Rankings

Music ID is an indispensable tool in examining chart data for the sales of sound recordings in countries around the world.

• Search for Artists, Albums, Singles or by date • Access relevant articles in major academic publications with embedded links • Listen to audio samples • Filter by country and data type (see above) • Superimpose any artist’s results on any other, around the world • Export spreadsheets of data and images of graphs • Store work in Research Folders

• View Sales Rankings in relative or absolute relationships • View metadata for each graph point • Add data to a custom graph • Zoom into details of Sales Rankings • Sort data by Artist, Writer, Label; First Charted Date; Most Recent Position; Peak Position; Weeks in Chart; Chart Type; Country

In short, the database should be of significant value to any institution with courses of study in pop music and history of contemporary University of Hong Kong Western music.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

…provides us with a statistical meta-narrative of popular culture… University of Northampton

Also available from Academic Rights Press Big Data comes to film studies. For the first time, accurate retail and box-office information from Nielsen opens up new avenues of research for faculty and students.

We set up a trial and have been very pleased with it and its application across the curriculum, not just in music…

Bowling Green State University

It will make music librarians wonder how we got by without it until now. ‘Note’s review, Music Library Association

MusicWeb

Make the connections Provides more context for any artist or group you study, through • Bios • Videos • Related artists found by semantic indexing

“ This type of direct access to this information has not been made available to academic institutions before. Students will have the opportunity to be in the driving seat and use the same data that studio executives use to make key decisions about title releases.”

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