Quarterly Analysis

During the second quarter of 2010 ImageLine FL Studio traded places with Steinberg Cubase for the second and third positions. Interest in Ableton Live decreased causing it to drop four positions to tenth place. Both Cakewalk Sonar and Adobe Audition showed upward trends, and Audition increased its rank by two positions to rank in the sixth slot. Both MOTU Digital Performer and Sony Sound Forge increased their standing by two positions to rank eight and ninth respectively.

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 approximately 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 5 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...