Jul 09 2019 3 mins
- Highlights
- Brazilian Bossa Nova legend João Gilberto died over the weekend at the age of 88. We remember “O Mito” and just how timeless he is.
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- Date
- This is your Data Dump for Wednesday, July 10th, 2019.
- Remembering Bossa Nova Great João Gilberto
- João Gilberto, the father of Bossa Nova, died in Rio De Janeiro over the weekend, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t honor his monumental legacy.
- Gilberto was born in 1931 in the Brazilian state of Bahia, received his first guitar when he was 14, and you might say the rest is history.
- In 1965, he and American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz won three Grammy Awards for their album Getz/Gilberto, which features their famous recording of “The Girl From Ipanema.”
- With any legacy artist like Gilberto, whose catalog consists of, well, catalog (as opposed to frontline) recordings, numbers tend to flatline without those big new release marketing drivers.
- Gilberto’s repertoire has seen a significant uptick in interest across platforms not only in the last week, which is to be expected anytime a music great passes into the next frontier — but within the last two months as well.
- On Spotify, Gilberto’s follower increase has hovered steadily around a 100 since January, but since May 25, it’s shot up to around 600.
- While his monthly listeners fell some 5 or 600,000 from early April to early May, by the end of May, they had increased some 3 or 400,000.
- His Spotify Popularity Index, as a result, lifted some five points from 65 to 70 between May 23 and July 8.
- On every social platform, save for the Facebook wildcard, interest spikes are understandably, if unfortunately, localized around the news of his death.
- His Wikipedia views, for example, jumped from around 300 to nearly 70,000.
- There’s a similar increase on YouTube, where daily views leapt from around 66,000 to 1.2 million.
- Given his holy status in his home country of Brazil, Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro are his top cities by Spotify monthly listeners at 13.6 and 7.3 percent, respectively.
- On YouTube, however, Paris, France, and Santiago, Chile, are his top cities, both at around 8 percent.
- As far as countries go, USA, at 15 percent, is his biggest fan behind Brazil, at 17 percent of daily YouTube views.
- So, while Gilberto is definitely a Brazilian deity in the music world, it’s clear his impact has been global and that it will remain so for many, many years to come.
Outro
- That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Wednesday, July 10th, 2019. This is Rutger from Chartmetric.
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