# How Chartmetric uses ClickHouse to turn artist data into music intelligence

DevFeed: [How Chartmetric uses ClickHouse to turn artist data into music intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-chartmetric-uses-clickhouse-to-turn-artist-data-into-music-intelligence-5027.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/chartmetric-uses-clickhouse-to-turn-artist-data-into-music-intelligence>)

Author: ClickHouse

Published: 2025-05-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [Time Series](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/time-series.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elasticsearch.md>), [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/elasticsearch.md>), [instagram](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instagram.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [music](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/music.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [self-hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosting.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [tiktok](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tiktok.md>), [time-series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time-series.md>), [youtube](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/youtube.md>)

## AI overview

Chartmetric uses ClickHouse Cloud to analyze large-scale music data, including streaming counts, social signals, playlist placements, and chart rankings. The article describes how ClickHouse helped improve time-series query performance, reduce storage costs, and support API responsiveness as the platform scaled.

## Source excerpt

"ClickHouse has been excellent, delightful, wonderful--I can't think of enough words to describe how nice it is for time series data and especially reducing storage costs and improving API performance." Peter Gomez, Lead Engineer