Four steps between you and a virtual portfolio of artist "stocks." Here's the honest picture — the data Muses uses, the formula that sets the price, and what the prototype does and doesn't do today.
Browse 105 hand-picked artists across pop, hip-hop, indie, and more. Each profile shows monthly Spotify listeners, YouTube channel stats, price history, and the signals that moved the price. Watchlist the ones you're weighing.
Buy shares at the current price with a market order. Each account starts with €10,000 in virtual credits — no sign-up, no deposit, nothing real at risk. Buy as little or as much as you want and build the portfolio you'd build if this were real.
Prices refresh every 30 minutes, 24/7 — driven by Spotify monthly listeners and YouTube channel stats, with boosts for chart position and radio play. Your virtual portfolio is saved in your browser so you can come back and see how it's holding up.
Sell any position at any time to lock in a virtual gain or cut a virtual loss. Watch how your picks perform against the market, against other artists, and against your own earlier self. It's a sandbox for the thesis: could I actually spot a rising artist before the charts do?
Every artist's price comes from a simple, readable formula. No black box. Here's exactly how the number on screen is built.
A cron job pulls Spotify monthly listeners and YouTube channel stats (subscribers, total views) for every listed artist every 30 minutes, 24/7. That's the entire feed today.
Price per share = monthly listeners × €0.03 per 1,000,000. So an artist with 30M monthly listeners sits around €0.90 before boosts. Bigger audience = higher price.
YouTube scale adds a small premium. Chart position on major streaming charts and recent radio airplay add bounded boosts on top. All multipliers are capped so a single viral moment can't lift a price by 10x overnight.
Raw values go through an exponential moving average so the price doesn't whiplash on every data refresh. Over time, an artist's trajectory shows up cleanly instead of as noise.
Muses is a prototype, not a brokerage. There's no sign-up, no deposit, no real money, and no real fees. If Muses ever becomes a real product, the cost model will be public before anything charges a cent.
No real money is accepted, held, or at risk. Your balance is virtual. You can't win or lose actual euros here.
Prices come from real Spotify and YouTube numbers, refreshed on a public 30-minute cadence. The formula is small and readable — no black box.
Muses is a long-running, self-funded product — not venture-backed. Bugs happen. Data outages happen. The roadmap moves deliberately, not against quarterly targets.
Muses is not a broker, not a fund, not a securities exchange. If that ever changes it will be obvious, loud, and licensed first.
Launch the prototype and get €10,000 in virtual credits. No sign-up, no deposit, no strings.