Quarterly Analysis

During 2009 Q3 the top five products - DigiDesign Pro Tools, Steinberg Cubase, ImageLine FL Studio, Cakewalk Sonar, and Apple Logic - maintained their previous positions. Ableton Live, Apple GarageBand, and PG Music Band-in-a-Box moved up in the rankings pushing down Adobe Audition and Sony Sound Forge.

How do you know this stuff?

The music software popularity index is based on recent Internet search activity on Google, Yahoo, AOL & MSN. Collectively these 4 search engines represent more than 95 percent of the searches on the Internet. Over 100 search terms are used to construct this index.

We have been publishing this index for over 4 years now, and the rankings have been generally stable. Here are the changes in rankings from the past quarter. Fifteen products are tracked in this index. More...

Products or companies?

Most people search for products instead of companies with three important exceptions: Cakewalk, Steinberg, and MOTU. More...

Products in transition

Product names change, but people still search for the old names. In particular people still search for Fruity Loops instead of FL Studio and Cool Edit instead of Adobe Audition. More...