Myspace Hit-to-Play ratio

[Standard8]

Our myspace has a 5-4 hit to play ratio. Or, "HTP" as I'll hereby coin.

5 hits to the profile, 4 plays on the myspace player. In our case, 5000 hits and 4000 plays. I noticed it this morning and wondered if that's a good HTP. I thought "well, that depends, I need to know what other bands HTP is in order to place myself." So I thought I'd mosey on over here and present it to you people. What's your Myspace HTP?

[Standard8]

Qualifiers for accuracy:

Your profile has to have been up for 6 months or more.

The initial rush of hits and plays, and people listening 3 or 4 times to the songs right when you put them up at the beginning will skew the HTP.

So please, share your HTP on your profile that's been up for at least 6 months.

Thanks!

[ZERO HEROES]

I wish myspace had more detailed stats.

[Standard8]

Ok, so you've got a 5/2 ratio.

Your band is pretty popular I see!!! I'm only about a minute into Fold, good stuff, it isn't my style but I have friends that love this stuff, I'll forward this onto them.

[ZERO HEROES]

Ok, so you've got a 5/2 ratio.

Your band is pretty popular I see!!! I'm only about a minute into Fold, good stuff, it isn't my style but I have friends that love this stuff, I'll forward this onto them.



I'm always uploading newer versions, so you can believe those play numbers.

Thanks for the comments.

[Standard8]

Sure, our myspace player only has 100 plays on the song we have up right now, but we've got 4000 total plays, which is at the top of the myspace player. Taking songs down and putting new ones up doesn't affect the total plays at the top of the player, FYI.

I like the intensity in Fold .... like Rush meets Nickelback. Good transitions, pretty clean, and definately intense and captivating.

[ZERO HEROES]

Sure, our myspace player only has 100 plays on the song we have up right now, but we've got 4000 total plays, which is at the top of the myspace player. Taking songs down and putting new ones up doesn't affect the total plays at the top of the player, FYI.


I still don't trust those numbers they give us. At one point we had more friends then profile views, AND for at least 8 months we had NO music on the profile.

A few things I would like to see are stats broken down by day, month, etc. Also maybe who visited each day, who has visited the most, etc.




I like the intensity in Fold .... like Rush meets Nickelback. Good transitions, pretty clean, and definately intense and captivating.



Thanks! I appreciate the comments.

[nfrhtp]

Hello, our profile has 102k hits, 95k plays. I have no idea how accurate myspace numbers are. I do wish the downloads counter worked.
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[marcellis]

My stats are broken down differently. But I suspect my HTP is lower than yours. Your stats probably aren't as detailed but are more musician-specific. Mine are so detailed I don't understand what a lot of them mean.

But I get a maybe 5-7k hits every month not counting spiders and robots. And 500-800 downloads on an average month. But that has gone up since a mystery referring page started sending downloaders to my site.

This month looks like a thousand .mp3 download month.

BTW, I don't make a dime.

MARCH 2008 - TO DATE:


day hits files pages visits sites kbytes

1 142 3.87% 65 2.64% 17 6.05% 11 7.24% 35 4.96% 85381 5.59%
2 404 11.01% 262 10.63% 55 19.57% 15 9.87% 69 9.79% 298440 19.54%
3 166 4.53% 133 5.40% 7 2.49% 6 3.95% 61 8.65% 35574 2.33%
4 202 5.51% 114 4.63% 25 8.90% 11 7.24% 42 5.96% 57918 3.79%
5 194 5.29% 140 5.68% 23 8.19% 16 10.53% 45 6.38% 72676 4.76%
6 321 8.75% 208 8.44% 18 6.41% 12 7.89% 62 8.79% 172076 11.27%
7 145 3.95% 87 3.53% 15 5.34% 11 7.24% 36 5.11% 60772 3.98%
8 298 8.12% 224 9.09% 26 9.25% 10 6.58% 53 7.52% 165520 10.84%
9 233 6.35% 131 5.32% 16 5.69% 6 3.95% 54 7.66% 100580 6.59%
10 298 8.12% 224 9.09% 11 3.91% 7 4.61% 51 7.23% 101344 6.64%
11 465 12.68% 350 14.20% 20 7.12% 15 9.87% 78 11.06% 99505 6.52%
12 147 4.01% 108 4.38% 7 2.49% 7 4.61% 59 8.37% 70303 4.60%
13 220 6.00% 145 5.88% 13 4.63% 9 5.92% 71 10.07% 82379 5.39%
14 278 7.58% 184 7.47% 19 6.76% 10 6.58% 64 9.08% 90197 5.91%
15 155 4.23% 89 3.61% 9 3.20% 6 3.95% 44 6.24% 34292 2.25%
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Total plays is not broken down at all. I only know which specific file is accessed.


rank hits kbytes url/song

1 61 1.66% 181108 11.86% /Bonne_Annee_copyright_2008_Marc_Ellis.mp3

2 73 1.99% 162717 10.66% /Chaplin_on_the_Subway_copyright_2004_Marc_Ellis_La xmi_Music_ASCAP.mp3

3 48 1.31% 128885 8.44% /Valentines_Day_by_Marc_Ellis.mp3

4 68 1.85% 68453 4.48% /Shijun_copyright_2003_Marc_Ellis_Laxmi_Music_ASCAP .mp3

5 23 0.63% 64789 4.24% /Slow_Bossa_copyright_2007-2008_Marc_Ellis.mp3

6 33 0.90% 63674 4.17% /Perhaps_Youre_Just_Stupid.mp3

7 34 0.93% 62699 4.11% /The_Fantomas_Waltz_copyright_2003_Marc_Ellis_Laxmi _Music_ASCAP.mp3

8 70 1.91% 55522 3.64% /handmades.jpg

9 40 1.09% 54435 3.56% /Hoi

10 43 1.17% 51679 3.38% /Ketu(The_South_Shadow_of_the_Moon)copyright_2004_M arc_Ellis_Laxmi_Music_ASCAP.mp3
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Monthly Statistics for March 2008

Total Hits 3668
Total Files 2464
Total Pages 281
Total Visits 152
Total KBytes 1526956

Total Unique Sites 705
Total Unique URLs 200
Total Unique Referrers 58
Total Unique User Agents 153

HITS

Avg Max

Hits per Hour 10 135
Hits per Day 244 465
Files per Day 164 350
Pages per Day 18 55
Visits per Day 10 16
KBytes per Day 101797 298440


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[rpwillnealy]

48816 hits and 42113 plays.

[ZERO HEROES]

My stats are broken down differently. But I suspect my HTP is lower than yours. Your stats probably aren't as detailed but are more musician-specific. Mine are so detailed I don't understand what a lot of them mean.



Granted we are suppose to be talking about MySpace stats, but the more detailed the better. It's then just a matter of crunching the numbers.

[jrm27]

I think last I saw... we are at 200k views and roughly 360k listens....

[Standard8]

Congratulations.... the first inverse HTP I've seen! Great job!

[jrm27]

thanks Standard! actually, i jsut checked at it is roughly 345k plays. Didn't mean to inflate the numbers man. Cool thread!

[matt5409]

Our myspace has a 5-4 hit to play ratio. Or, "HTP" as I'll hereby coin.

5 hits to the profile, 4 plays on the myspace player. In our case, 5000 hits and 4000 plays. I noticed it this morning and wondered if that's a good HTP. I thought "well, that depends, I need to know what other bands HTP is in order to place myself." So I thought I'd mosey on over here and present it to you people. What's your Myspace HTP?

surely it depends on whether your profile song is set to play automatically?

[ZERO HEROES]

surely it depends on whether your profile song is set to play automatically?


It definitely plays a role.

[Deeprig9]

I wish it were possible to get a click count for when other people who make a song their profile song get clicks and your song gets played through someone else's profile? Is that included in the click count on the myspace player?

[jrm27]

That is not included... that would be pretty sweet though!

[jimosity]

Profile Views: 339986
Total Plays: 504114

Is there any way to tell WHO or how many profiles are using your music as their profile song?

[Instrospection]

Profile Views: 339986
Total Plays: 504114

Is there any way to tell WHO or how many profiles are using your music as their profile song?

That would be great! I know that alot of people added our songs (due to other people saying that they saw it), but there's no real way to track that, as far as I know.

[Poker99]

My stats are broken down differently. But I suspect my HTP is lower than yours. Your stats probably aren't as detailed but are more musician-specific. Mine are so detailed I don't understand what a lot of them mean.

But I get a maybe 5-7k hits every month not counting spiders and robots. And 500-800 downloads on an average month. But that has gone up since a mystery referring page started sending downloaders to my site.

This month looks like a thousand .mp3 download month.

BTW, I don't make a dime.


Fuck man, SELL YOUR MP3s !!!!

[guysmy]

75k views vs. 48k plays. at some point a while back i reset profile views so the ratio didn't suck so bad.

[siberiankiss]

www.myspace.com/brookroyal


Here is our site. I too am confounded by this. What I don't get is when the page loads the music starts so does that not count as a play? Just by visiting the site it should generate a play.?

[rsadasiv]

3234 hits, 2915 plays. I think there is some minimum amount of the file which has to stream before it gets into the log, so if you have autoplay on and people hit the profile and immediately bail it doesn't count as a play.