Features
Compare artists: any artists you name on one axis, read every day
Compare artists in Opah by adding them: your own and the ones ahead of you are read the same way, so the Spotify popularity score, monthly listeners, followers, cities and top tracks sit on one axis every day, with the Meta ads each runs and their Instagram, TikTok and YouTube cadence beside them. Up to six artists read as one market in a Niche Playbook.
$0.99 a month for your first 3 months on Opah Core, then $19. Cancel any time. Chartmetric is $60 a month for 10 artists; Opah is $19 for 3 or $39 for 10.
Measured , artists anonymised.
Same days, same axis, two ends of the scale
An independent with about 27,000 monthly listeners and a headliner with 24.6M, from the same niche, over the same June to September. The first has no world rank, because Spotify ranks only the top of its chart, so the number that moves for them is the popularity score: 24 to 28 across a release. The second has a rank, and it moved 270 to 332. Opah reads whichever numbers each artist has and never invents the ones they lack.
The comparison that holds across sizes is the ratio: fan conversion, plays per listener, audience against output. The Playbook’s strip prints the raw counts and the ratios side by side.
What sits on the axis
The same fields for every artist, read on the same schedule.
- Spotify
- Popularity score, monthly listeners, followers, fan conversion, five cities, top tracks, rank when assigned
- Every 24 hours
- Movers
- Every artist you track ranked by the change in their Spotify numbers, on the dashboard
- Every 24 hours
- Network
- The peers each artist shares with the others, and how strongly each pair overlaps
- Every 24 hours
- Organic
- Followers and posting cadence per platform; audience share against output share
- Every 72 hours
- Ads
- How many ads each artist runs, how long they stay up, the format, the button and the destination
- Every 72 hours
- Playbook strip
- Up to six artists' headline figures on one row
- Daily
How to read it
Compare an artist to the artists their fans also listen to, not to the biggest name in the genre: the peer constellation shows whether the set shares an audience. Read the ratios before the counts. Then read the behaviour, because a gap in listeners usually has a gap in cadence or in ads behind it, and that is the part you can act on.
How to read these numbers
- Counts do not compare across sizes
- A 27K-listener artist and a 24.6M-listener artist share an axis, not a scale. Use the ratios.
The other things Opah does
Every plan includes all of them. Each has its own page.
- Artist analyticsone artist across five platforms, nothing to connect
- Song analyticsthe top 10 tracks: plays, score and affinity
- Audience demographicscities from Spotify, age and gender from EU and UK ads
- Niche Playbookup to six artists read as one market
- Spotify popularity scorethe 0 to 100 number, daily
- Market affinitythe cities your niche is heard in and you are not
- Audience engagementlikes, comments, views and saves per post, by format
- Smart linksone page per release, with first-party geography
- Ad creative analysiswhat the ads in your niche are made of
The other half: the benchmark as a job
Comparing is the capability; the manager page shows a roster read this way, and the Niche Playbook does both on one page.
Questions
More on the FAQ.
Can I compare my artist with artists I do not manage?
What can I compare?
How many artists can I compare at once?
Can I compare artists of very different sizes?
Does Opah search for artists to compare?
Your artist and the artists ahead of you, on one axis
The first numbers arrive the same day.
$0.99 a month for your first 3 months on Opah Core, then $19. Cancel any time. Chartmetric is $60 a month for 10 artists; Opah is $19 for 3 or $39 for 10.