“We drove 50% of Nicki Minaj’s sales in 30 minutes” – Stationhead’s co-founders Murray Levison and Ryan Star on pivoting to being a superfan-centric community audio platform

Music Ally Focus

Ep 125: In this episode Stationhead co-founders, Murray Levison and Ryan Star speak to Editor Joe Sparrow about the platform’s role as a gathering place for superfans, and what fans are seeking in a platform that mixes music, community and commerce. Superfans are well know for their all-encompassing support of an artist, and their desire to form a community to celebrate them. Stationhead started out as a kind of live radio platform that would allow users to play music and talk around the songs, and has changed its path a little to become even more oriented around fandoms. Now, fans gather around stations to geek out about an artist’s music and chat about. them – with some artists joining in on the broadcasts for things like release parties. Joe talked to Murray and Ryan – who is also a successful artist in his own right – about what fans want and what Stationhead is doing to give it to them.

Stationhead: https://www.stationhead.com

Stationhead – Nicki Minaj fandom: https://www.stationhead.com/p/fandom/nicki-minaj-fans-stationhead

Ryan Star: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKeFzpawPad05pLIP1NGFhA

God Only Knows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NADx3-qRxek

Scratch Your Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8US2vvG4niA

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtXl8xAPAtA&list=PL3PhWT10BW3VDM5IcVodrdUpVIhU8f7Z-

Drumsticks https://youtu.be/4lJMjBU8fBM

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