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HitPredictor Overall Artist Chart
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About the HitPredictor Artist Chart
The HitPredictor Artist Chart is a gauge of artist popularity, above and beyond song charts. Artist scores are affected by every aspect of an artist's career. Marketing, airplay, retail, print media, touring, TV appearances, and rumor all have an impact on chart performance.

HitPredictor Artist Chart Data is collected with the same strict attention to detail as all other HitPredictor research. A list of several hundred artists is compiled based on airplay and sales. The artists are rated by thousands of carefully screened music fans aged 13-50. Results are compiled weekly and monthly. The chart is based on a 100 point calculation that takes into account each artist's popularity and buzz, among the entire music listening population. For more information please get in touch.


Highlights of the promosquad HitPredictor Artist Chart for JANUARY 2010
  • Its been a long climb back to the top of the artist chart, but since the release of her All I Ever Wanted album and three hit singles Kelly Clarkson has been climbing the charts this week making it back to #1 year on the Hitpredictor artist charts.
  • Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga has had a total of 5 top 10 hits(and a 6th on the way)... 4 U.S. hits singles(two #1s) off of her "Fame" album and now the Fame Monster has Bad Romance peaking at #2 with Telephone becoming a huge hit as well, music's most outrageous(and super talented )new music star, Lady Gaga enters the Top 10 this month.
  • 2009 American Idol winner Arkansas' own, Kris Allen is the biggest jumper of the week on the overall Artist chart as his "Live Like You Were Dyin" (penned by two members of the Script) is becoming a hit at three formats Top 40, Hot AC and Mainstream AC with more hits on the way from his new album "Kris Allen"
  • Check out the individual Hitpredictor Artist Charts this month, as we close this decade with Lady Gaga #1 at Mainstream Top 40, Rob Thomas #1 at Hot AC ,Mary J Blige is #1 at both the Rhythm charts and Urban charts Elton John is #1 at Adult Contemporary, super hot Lady Antebellum moving to #1 at Country and Linkin Park finally unseating the Foo Fighters as #1 at Alternative after 10th straight months at the top ARTIST CHART


A brief history of the HitPredictor Artist Chart:
In early 2006 we created a monthly overall artist chart, which included promosquad HitPredictor listeners from all formats who rate over 350 artists every month. These artists are a combination of the biggest artists over the past 5 years from all formats along with the hottest new artists that have enjoyed significant success on the charts. Each artist is rated on a 100 point scale, and the resulting scores are averaged across the major formats for the main overall Artist Chart included here. In addition to the overall chart, we also break out the Artist chart out by format every month.

PINK...a HitPredictor Artist Chart success story! - Guy Zapoleon

The biggest story we've seen recently is the amazing return to success for Pink. Pink was struggling with releases from her new CD after several misses over the past few CD's. Programmers weren't adding the great new Pink song "U + Ur Hand" because they had a lack of confidence in the hit making ability of Pink herself. However all of us at Promosquad HitPredictor noticed a very important thing: Pink was scoring Top 10 among 500 of the biggest artists of any format consistantly every single month since we started the Artist Chart, even before this CD was released. We also noticed that "U + Ur Hand" and the previous single "Who Knew" both were #1 songs all over the world...We gave this information to Joe Riccitelli at Zomba, used the Artist Chart information in Zomba's campaign to break "U + Ur Hand", and the information that Pink was Top 10 or close to it every month in our Artist Chart began to change programmers' minds about the artist and this great song. One by one the radio station dominos fell until Pink was added everywhere, then nature took its course and this great song reached #1.

Zomba's Joe Riccitelli had this to offer:

"HitPredictor's Artist Chart was a valuable tool in breaking "U + Ur Hand" at radio. The battle we were fighting at the time was more about PINK'S viability for the Top 40 format. Most Program Directors across the country were quick to judge a few mid chart singles in a row by Pink to mean she wasn't a factor to the format.

We used the Hit Predictor artist charts to show she was still a top 10 artist even during the rebuilding process. In a funny way that type of positive reinforcement helped our promotion team fight through the challenges we faced.

The bottom line became just because PINK had a few mid-chart records in a row had nothing to do with what the general top 40 audience felt about her as an artist. On the contrary she had better artist scores then actual artists with top 5 records over the last year."


2MLMTMArtist
841UpKelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson
652UpThe Fray
The Fray
333Linkin Park
Linkin Park
114DownMichael Jackson
Michael Jackson
225DownPink
Pink
966Paramore
Paramore
23187UpLady GaGa
Lady GaGa
578DownMaroon 5
Maroon 5
10109UpTaylor Swift
Taylor Swift
191710UpCarrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood
2MLMTMArtist
111911UpDaughtry
181512UpColdplay
4813DownGwen Stefani
131614UpOneRepublic
171115DownJustin Timberlake
141416DownGreen Day
7917DownRed Hot Chili Peppers
272318UpAlicia Keys
151319DownEvanescence
121220DownAerosmith
202121Beyonce
252222Christina Aguilera
282423UpMatchbox Twenty
162024DownBlack Eyed Peas
372925UpRob Thomas
2MLMTMArtist
323226UpRihanna
313727UpAll-American Rejects
352828Katy Perry
212529Down3 Doors Down
262630DownIncubus
413831UpSara Bareilles
383432UpFergie
333333Bon Jovi
342734DownOutkast
304235UpLeona Lewis
404636UpRascal Flatts
453537DownMariah Carey
485038UpKris Allen
364139UpFall Out Boy
243040DownGoo Goo Dolls
223141DownSantana
293642DownTimbaland
393943DownNickelback
464544UpMary J Blige
444045DownNelly furtado
434346DownUsher
424747Hinder
494448DownEminem
----49DownAvril Lavigne
----50DownJordin Sparks