iLike fan count numbers have yet to updated for approximately 10 days. This stagnation has lead to a daily accumulation of fans of 0 for nearly all artists over that period.
Posted February 8, 2011
iLike fan count numbers have yet to updated for approximately 10 days. This stagnation has lead to a daily accumulation of fans of 0 for nearly all artists over that period.
Posted February 8, 2011
We’re currently upgrading our servers and have disabled the ability add/edit profiles. We will keep our status blog posted with any updates.
Updated: we’re back!
Posted September 2, 2010
On Apr 21, Facebook announced their new Open Graph API. This changed the language for Pages from “Fan” to “Like.” According to their help center, “[Facebook] believes the change offers you a more light-weight and standard way to connect with people, things and topics in which you are interested.” Next Big Sound now uses their new Graph API and equates a Like on a Facebook Page to Fans of the artist— Facebook has decidedly done the same on their own insights pages.
Posted April 21, 2010
Many of our users have noted that metric values for their artists on Last.fm seem to have many missing or seemingly incorrect data points frequently followed by unusual fluctuations of seemingly impossible magnitude. While this may seem unlikely, it is actually due to the latency and irregularity with which Last.fm updates values for the metrics that we collect. This means that in most cases, the day to day changes for any one artist and metric will be nothing for several days followed by a large spike in value when Last.fm updates the value that we collect, reflecting the change over a period of several days as opposed to one day like all other networks. The length of this delay is unpredictable and varies by artist, and as such, we cannot adjust or normalize the data in any way that would make it more presentable or meaningful.
Posted April 14, 2010
The structure of the endpoints on ReverbNation from which we collect daily data was changed. Because of this change we missed about a week worth of data points. The way fans are calculated was also redefined and for many ReverbNation users, this new definition can include fan counts from networks other than ReverbNation if the user chooses to do so.
As a result of this, the fan value for ReverbNation no longer reflect fans on only that network and we have stopped showing fan data from ReverbNation. However, the change in data structure does now allow us to track plays and page views specific to ReverbNation so we will be supporting these metrics going forward.
Posted March 24, 2010
Wikipedia posted incomplete data files for the daily page views causing a large decrease in that metric for nearly all artists. Generally, we collect files that are posted every hour by Wikipedia and aggregate the results into daily changes over the 24 files that are posted for each day. On January 23, only 2 such files were posted resulting in a substantial deficiency of data for that day
Posted January 23, 2010
