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Every week your band can earn bonus Play Credits based on your Jango PopScore. The higher your PopScore, the more bonus credits you get. You can find your PopScore in your artist dashbord ‘Your Account’ module where your current score and last weeks score are both displayed.
PopScores range from 1-100 with 100 being the highest score possible.
(Note: Your PopScore is not a chart position, it is your own score between 1-100). Each week we give away about $5,000 worth of airplay credits. We publish your final PopScore (and credit the winners) every Monday based on the previous weeks plays.
The top 1000 bands each week receive bonus airplay credits as follows:
| Top Bands: | Free Credits: |
| 1 – 10 | 1,000 |
| 11 – 100 | 250 |
| 101 – 1000 | 100 |
That’s a good question, there are many things that affect your PopScore including:
- Basic Targeting
At the most fundamental level it does not make sense for a country artist to target fans of Metallica. Similarly, a hip hop artist should not expect to fare well if targeting fans of Kenny Rogers. Your targeting is important so make sure to examine your Fan Overlap Report which is accessible from within your Reports Tab.
- Premium Targeting
Premium Targeting allows you to target specific groups of people. By targeting your plays to people in certain states or countries age groups or gender, you make sure that your songs are only played to people that correspond to your selected targets. Premium Targeting may help you achieve a higher PopScore so keep trying. Premium Targeting is available under your Targeting Tab.
- Presentation
Overall presentation is always important. This can be anything from high quality mastering of your tacks to a great press shot or album cover. When we ask listeners to rate your music we tell them not only your band name but we also show your default picture. Being visually interesting and sounding great always helps.
- Your Music
This goes without saying perhaps but your music is obviously of great importance. Some of us Jugglers play in bands in our spare time so we know that writing music is hard and writing music that people respond to is even harder.
- Experiment!
You know this, music is an art not a science, and while there is some science at work within the Jango PopScore a lot of it has to do with subjective tastes of millions of people. So how do you write a number one hit? Perhaps by never giving up.
We’re here to help, answer any questions you might have and to listen to your feedback but we see our role as providing great tools for the emerging
band. How you use the tools we provide, and what you do with them is up to you. For more information about our packages and how you can get discovered with Jango Airplay, please email us at airplay@jango.com and we’ll get back to you shortly. You can also call us on 1-800-914-4970.
Our ears are open !!!
- Jango Jugglers
