If, like me, you consider yourself hopelessly out of touch when it comes to pop music, perhaps you have attempted to bring yourself up to speed with the Twitter hashtag #musicmonday (what’s a hashtag? Read Heidi’s post here). People include the #musicmonday tag when tweeting about their favorite bands and artists, or the ones they’re listening to at the moment. So, I thought, why not use the Cision Social Media Dashboard to analyze this morning’s tweets to find which artists are the most popular?
These are the 9 artists who appeared in at least 1 percent of the group of 5,000 tweets containing the hashtag #musicmonday that I analyzed this morning. The links will take you to MySpace pages (yep, a MySpace presence is still a prerequisite for any well-known musician, a fact perhaps solidified by News Corp.’s acquisition today of the iLike social network for musical acts and fans).
- Michael Jackson 4.2%
- Nas 4.0%
- Kanye West 3.8%
- Jonas Brothers 1.6%
- Keri Hilson 1.6%
- Lady Gaga 1.6%
- Rihanna 1.5%
- Black Eyed Peas 1.3%
- Gucci Mane 1.2%
