Market Share and Music Genre Popularity

Another fundamental element affecting single and album sales together with city fame is market shares. Your market shares are shaped according to original music genre popularity and the musical subgenre you use in your repertoire and on the records you release. Music genre popularity is updated every Thursday. Market shares, on the other hand, are updated differently for each band according to possible changes in the band’s market shares. Music genre popularities are the same for every genre, so market shares do not create a difference between genres in terms of competition.

Because market shares greatly affect your sales, you should check music genre popularities weekly. The music genre at the top of this list is determined according to the average in the women, men, young men, and young women lists. In short, you can choose the subgenre at the very top. You just need to follow the weekly rising and falling trends carefully and try to predict the subgenre that will be at the top when you release your record. This is much more important especially when you will release an album, because an album released every 112 days has approximately 4 times the effect of a single on market shares. Choosing the wrong subgenre will keep your market shares at a low level for a long time.

Your market shares are also directly affected by your band’s city fame and rise as your fame rises. Promoters in your crew are another factor affecting your market share.

This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet.