Entity lock
Wikidata, MusicBrainz and official URLs establish the canonical artist before collection.
identity first VERIFIED GLOBAL FANDOM SIGNAL
Find the rise
before the headline.
Official accounts, licensed artist media and time-separated signals. No name-match guessing. No fabricated momentum.
RADAR / MOMENTUM ENGINE
Cross-platform movement
Rank appears only after at least two real snapshots. Missing platforms reduce coverage instead of inventing points.
LATEST ACROSS THE FANDOM
One feed. Verified origin.
Videos and posts are published only when their origin resolves to the canonical artist or a verified official platform.
SOURCE NETWORKMany platforms.
Many platforms.
One canonical artist.
YouTube, Instagram, X and Last.fm provide live signals. MusicBrainz, Wikidata and licensed Commons media anchor identity. Spotify and TikTok remain display/link layers where their public APIs do not support arbitrary artist monitoring.
VERIFICATION GATE
Nothing enters by a loose name match.
Official account graph
Every external handle stores its source, external ID and verification provenance.
exact account originSnapshot engine
Momentum compares actual time-separated counters. Relative growth can put a tiny act above a giant.
growth, not fameContent gate
Ambiguous content never auto-publishes. It stays out or enters a review queue.
precision over filler