Love this,

Thanks.

Very cool – says a lot!

LOL nice reaction. I didn’t think about Mixcloud but (like many others) it’d have been below the 100k visits/month minimum. Mixcloud stats were 43k visits/month (+64% growth in 2010). I’ll keep it on the radar for 2011. Thx:)

Thank you—let’s hope it didn’t make anyone’s brain explode!

WAH would have been on the map I’d remembered it—next year for sure. It’s impossible to remember every site—thanks for the heads up. WAH estimated traffic is 169k visits/month with 274% growth in 2010.

I guess I had them in my mind more as an API which I included in that list last month. The best part is I just looked at their ‘discover’ chart and my cousin Sharon was #13. I have to give their algorithm props for that. :)

On their about page it says they’re powered by YouTube, MySpace, Spotify, and Boxee. In the sidebar there’s a link to SoundCloud. Are they powered by SoundCloud too, affiliated with them, or is that random?

where is stereomood.com? ;)

I wonder how different this would look if the primary metric were the amount of money paid out to the artists, instead of the number of hits. Sure, Youtube gets more hits than everything else combined several times over… but how much money is it generating for the artists?

Where’s Zune? According to Compete they’d be #16 on traffic and #14 for YoY growth.

Aside from some of the glaring omissions, the raw data is interesting, but I don’t buy the visualization. Music services that rely mainly on clients (as opposed to web) for download/streaming consumption – iTunes, Zune, even Pandora – are not accurately represented. I would think Compete’s data doesn’t count mobile apps, which would make Pandora even larger than you’ve depicted.

Is this US music consumption? What about international? YouTube, Last.fm, eMusic, all have international traffic that’s completely on fire. Probably much bigger growth curves than inside the US.

Would love to see this again with more global data represented.

But excellent visualization.

Where is MTV on here then… it should be as big as Playlist.com?

Love this. Factual charts about the internet blow my mind and the fact that this is about music makes it even better! I only really use Last FM and Hypem – although I guess I occasionally use YouTube for music, too. Spotify decided to quit working on my laptop last summer so I’ve given up with it…

Wow, this is brilliant. This is exactly the sort of information that I was looking for, and perfectly arrayed. Bravo.

I didn’t think of Zune and will try to include it next year. It may be impossible though to get an accurate number on just the music portion of it—at least via Compete. When you put in zune.net or social.music.net you’re seeing numbers that include TV, movies, podcasts, etc. (That’s the same reason I couldn’t get data for MySpace Music this year. If you put in myspace.com/music then Compete will give you data for all of myspace.com.) Let me know what others you think need to be on next year. It’s impossible to remember everything on my own. Thx!

I agree to an extent about the accuracy. That’s why I referred to music consumption on the web and the relative differences. I want to write to Compete to find out more details on their methodology and to what extent they track mobile usage. Visits from a mobile web browser like the iPhone’s Safari are most likely tracked. As for app usage, or visits directly from an app, I’m not sure. It must vary depending on the nature of the app. But the methodology is consistent from one to the other. If you know of a solid source for mobile data I would love to crunch it.

I gotcha—I guess I was thinking Twitter style with the limit. I’ll make an updated version for you—give me a week or so. I might add in some of the other sites that people have commented about. Or I might just send you a version with Thumbplay swapped out for 8tracks.

I dig Compete. Their embeddable charts are esp. nice for close comparisons. I’ve used the free account so far but at some point I might try the Pro one. I’ve used Quantcast a bit too but IMO the data on Compete is so much easier to work with and better presented.

Right on—thank you!

I mentioned MTV at the end of the article in the “bonus tracks” but I couldn’t include it on the map b/c MTV.com isn’t a music site LOL. Next year I’ll include their new mashup mtvmusicmeter.com if it gets the traffic.

Stereomood would have been 160k visits/month and +163% in 2010. // Next year. ;)

Awesome visualisation. Think that Spotify is out of place here due to the downloadable interface and lack of accessibility by not only Americans but Australians too for example.

However, one thought, have you considered how much the growth of Last.fm lies in people scrobbling from Spotify? That is exactly what I do. I listen via Spotify Premium but its scrobbled to my Last.fm account. If others are doing similar does this not pose a possible problem in the stats?

Cheers

That’d be excellent – would love to see the updated version with all of the additions people have noted. This is the best summary of sector competitors I’ve seen to date.

I like the Compete design too. Wish they were a bit closer to the real numbers but, as you say, the larger sites are prob closer to actual.

Would also be interesting to compare with comScore. I’m trying to track these down and would be happy to share with you. (I’m in process of creating my ‘Positioning’ slide for investor deck so topical.)

Awesome visual representation. I so wish I could get info like this specifically for the classical music sector, as that is my field.

Nice bit of visualisation. What would be VERY interesting would be to see how traditional radio services appear on here: the iHeartradio stuff from CBS, as an example, would be interesting. We know that music radio as a whole is still massive – dwarfing many music services – so it would be interesting to see this share of ‘eartime’. SHOUTcast’s appearance here suggests that radio still has a part to play in this environment.

That’d be excellent

Hey Ryan, have you ever heard about Spreaker? Would love to check it and give me your feedback.
http://www.spreaker.com
Thanks!

For next year’s list, be sure to check out mflow. It has a very cool twitter-esque interface. While I prefer Grooveshark for building my own playlists and listening to tunes, mflow has a far better interface for music-based social networking. Although it’s currently in beta, I expect it’ll pick up steam in 2011.

The Vevo views are also aggregated from Youtube views of Vevo content for the 2MM Vevo visitors for 45MM Lady Gaga views doesnt quite work like you said.

I’m glad you dig it! + Yes, yes, Bandcamp rules!

Hadn’t heard about it but looks cool at first glance. I’ll check it out some more. Thanks :)

So very, very awesome.

Not meant to sound stupid, but….Tunecore?

If Rhapsody is #7 then why isnt it on your heat map? That omission calls the whole thing into question.

Where is Myxer is all of this?

How come iTunes isn’t represented?

awesome, intriguing, helpful, enlightening, informative … great job.thanks.

Hi, just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate this info.  As a completely independent artist, it’s people like you who make the rough world of music a little easier.  Looking forward to the 2011 map!

Bookmarked!

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