Who are the most influential musicians online? Klout just published a list of the 10 most influential musicians, it might surprise some of you. What can you do with this list? Well first thing is start following each of them on Twitter and Facebook. See what they do online, what they talk about, how they engage with their fans. Then be sure to signup on Klout and track your score.
By the way, Justin Bieber is the only person with a perfect Klout score of 100.
If one tweet from 50cent can affect the stock market, there is little doubt that social media can affect CD sales and an artist’s popularity. Nowadays, an artist joining or leaving Twitter makes headlines and effectively harnessing social media is no longer optional, but essential for new and established artists alike. We found the top ten most influential musicians/artists based on Klout to show who is the best at leveraging and engaging with their audience. Unsurprisingly, Justin Bieber is in lead along with many other young artists such as Joe Jonas and Miley Cyrus.
Check it out below: (or see a Klout list version)
So do other well-known artists compare to these social media gurus? Coldplay is an 81, MC Hammer a 74, and Dave Matthews is a 54. Clearly, being well-known is not enough to make it into the top 10. Who are your favorite artists on Twitter and do you think they’re successfully using it?
Top 10 Most Influential Musicians « Measuring Online Influence: The Official Klout Blog.
Most influential Where? Hell?
It’s probably a mistake to assume that their influence has much to do with the way they use social media.
Their online influence likely stems from their being incredibly famous, not the other way around. That you used MC Hammer as a counterexample tends to support this reading.
It’s a bit chicken & egg of course but if you’ll excuse the mixed metaphor I think you may be putting the cart before the horse.
Also, what Jon Langston said. ^
Klout does not measure just on the number of friends and followers. They take into account a number of factors actually related to using social media and engaging with others. So you can have a high Klout score and not have huge numbers of followers.
In theory you could but is this list really an example of that? I don’t think so.
Klout is a fairly detailed way to measure popularity but it’s still just a popularity measure – how often you get retweeted, how many other popular people follow you etc.
It’s not rocket surgery.
My Klout account is frozen they need to fix the bugs..lol