Listener Geography
Category: Soundcloud
What is Listener Geography?
The breakdown of where a track's listeners are physically located, shown in SoundCloud analytics by country and sometimes city.
Listener Geography explained
Listener geography refers to the country and city level location data that SoundCloud Insights provides for a track or profile's audience. This data comes from the location associated with each listener's account or session rather than a guess, and it can reveal patterns an artist would not otherwise notice, such as a track performing unusually well in a country with no obvious connection to the artist. Reading listener geography alongside other data helps an artist decide where to focus promotion, which playlists or communities might be worth approaching, and whether a genre or scene in a specific region is responding to the music more than others.
Why Listener Geography matters for independent artists
Understanding Listener Geography helps you make better promotion decisions on SoundCloud and other streaming platforms. On Reposter Network, artists apply concepts like this every day when they trade real plays, likes and reposts with other musicians instead of buying fake engagement.
Related terms
- SoundCloud Insights Dashboard: The analytics area inside SoundCloud for Artists that shows plays, likes, reposts, comments, and audience data for a track or profile.
- Traffic Source: The page, app, or feature that sent a listener to your track.
- Unique Listeners: The number of distinct people who played a track, regardless of how many times each of them played it.
Read more
Browse the full music marketing glossary or read the guide on SoundCloud repost networks.