The Music Research section in your LDR Dashboard (found under Statistics > Music Research) provides powerful insight into what your listeners truly want to hear. This feature combines raw voting data from both your LDR voting window and Futuri Mobile app with demographic data, giving you a deeper understanding of listener preferences.
Interactive Song Ratings enable users to enter basic demographic information—age range and gender—when they first participate in using LDR. From that point on, their age and gender are automatically associated with any votes they cast on any station using LDR.
This “set-it-and-forget-it” feature provides an unobtrusive way to collect informal, yet valuable, music research from your audience. You can enable this feature in your LDR Dashboard under Statistics > Music Research.
How Pop Score Works
Each vote contributes to a song’s overall Pop Score, calculated using this industry-standard formula:
| Action: | Pop Score: |
|---|---|
Like | +1 |
Love (Alert Sign-Up) | +1.5 |
Dislike | -0.5 |
This scoring system helps quantify listener sentiment, making it easy to identify your strongest (and weakest) titles.
Viewing and Filtering Your Data
At the top of the Music Research dashboard, you can filter results by:
- Date range
- Demographics (age and gender)
- Requestable status
Songs available for voting through your LDR or Futuri Mobile app will be marked as “Requestable.” Filtering by this status lets you focus only on songs currently in your active rotation.
Sorting and Sharing Results
Scroll down to view a detailed table where you can sort by:
- Artist
- Title
- Cut ID
- Likes
- Loves
- Dislikes
- Pop Score
You can easily copy and paste this table into Excel for sharing or further analysis.
By combining demographic insights with real-time listener feedback, the Music Research dashboard helps your programming team make smarter, data-driven music decisions—based on what your audience actually loves.