What is PopScore?
PopScore is not a chart ranking, but rather a performance metric that reflects how listeners engage with your songs, based on factors such as likes, dislikes, and total plays. It is calculated at the song level, meaning each individual track receives its own score based on its performance. PopScores are also relative to all other scores within the artist community.
Each month, eligible songs can receive a Song-Level PopScore and related awards. To qualify, a song must receive at least 100 paid plays during a given PopScore calendar month. Songs that achieve a PopScore of 50 or higher are eligible for PopScore Bonus Play Credits, which are automatically added to your account on the 1st of each month.
To view your PopScores, navigate to the PopScore page in your account. Click the Menu Option page (☰), then under the Reports section and select PopScore. From this page, you can review past monthly PopScores, weekly interim scores, and any bonus credits earned for qualifying songs.
PopScores range from 1 to 100, with 100 being the highest possible score. Play credit rewards are determined by your actual PopScore, the total number of plays an individual song receives, and a ranking formula used to calculate the final award amount.
Keep in mind that your score is evaluated against a large pool of other artists. In general, the more plays a song receives combined with a strong PopScore, the higher the number of play credits awarded.
Now that you are able to see the monthly performances of any qualifying song, it's time to find your hit! We hope you choose to gain as many song insights as possible. Experiment with different songs or different artist targets. Week to week or Month to Month. The more plays you accumulate per song, the more chances for ratings and more stabilized scores.
There are endless possibilities for an artist to utilize this rating system in order to better understand how their listeners are receiving and rating each of their uploaded compositions.
Song-Level Targeting: Create different sets of targets for each song. Unique sets of artist targets per song can work in your favor to maximize positive ratings and increase PopScore. You can access and utilize this feature, from the Campaign Settings menu choose the Song-Level Targeting page. Click here to read more about the feature here: https://radioairplay.enchanthq.com/article/106/how-do-i-use-song-level-targeting
Premium Targeting: Premium Targeting allows you to target specific groups of people. By targeting your plays to people in certain states or countries, age groups or gender, you make sure that your songs are only played to people that correspond to your selected targets. If you know what target audience you perform well with, Premium Targeting may help you achieve a higher PopScore. Premium Targeting is available under your Campaign Settings menu.
Overall Presentation and Music: This can be anything from high quality mastering of your tracks to a great press shot or album cover. When we ask listeners to rate your music we tell them not only your band name but we also show your default picture. Being visually interesting and sounding great always helps. Your music is obviously of great importance. Some of us Radio Airplay support members in bands in our spare time, so we certainly know that writing music is hard and writing music that people respond to is even harder!
You know this, music is an art not a science, and while there is some science at work within the Radio Airplay PopScore a lot of it has to do with subjective tastes of the millions of listeners on Jango.com. So how do you write a #1 Hit? Perhaps by never giving up.