Head-to-Head Song Comparisons
Purpose
of Head-to-Head Song Comparisons:
Allows
you to view two separate tracks by spins, broken down by format overview
and individual station spin comparisons. No need to manually calculate
comparison reports - Mediabase automatically does this for you!
To Get to Head-To-Head Song Comparisons:
·
Click
7-Day Reports from the main menu bar
·
Select
the 7 Day period you wish to review (default is through yesterday).
·
Click
Head-To-Head
Song Comparisons (under Song Analysis)
To Create a Head-To-Head Song Comparison:
Select Song #1:
This
should be your primary emphasis track and will be listed as Song 1.
- Enter Title (type song title in bar) or Artist (type artist/band name in bar) and hit GO.
- Select Show
All Songs, Currents/Recurrents or Gold.
- Click on Artist or Title under Matching
Titles to move song to Selected Songs on the right. This
will be listed as Song
1.
Select Song #2: This should be your secondary comparison track
and will be listed as Song
2. Use
same process as above to make your selection.
To
View Head-To-Head Song Comparison Report:
Click View 7-Day
Comparison or View
Building Comparison under Selected
Songs (right side) - only
visible after both songs have been selected.
Comparison report will list overall Format Summary (page 1) followed by
comparisons broken down by individual stations. Order of stations sorted
by most Spin Differentials between Primary Song (Song #1) and Secondary
Song (Song #2), regardless of format.
By clicking on an individual format under Format Summary, only stations
within that format will be displayed. Click "Show All Formats"
(upper right side) to return all formats to display.
Easy to read red arrow points in the direction of spin leader.
Play Differential number (difference in spins
between the two tracks) automatically calculated (displayed between the
two tracks)
To Compare Two Different Tracks:
Click Compare
Different Songs (upper right side)
– returns to Head-To-Head Song Comparisons main page
Show
Promo Reps:
Click to display individually assigned label reps
This
report may be downloaded to a spreadsheet:
Click Download
to Spreadsheet (top right corner).