News
Recent artist milestones formatted as news items. Each row carries a summaryTemplate (with :placeholder tokens) plus summaryData (token values) and metadata (entity ids for deep-linking). Items are selected from the last ARTIST_NEWS_DAYS_AGO days with importance stars >= ceil(weight/2). subType indicates the underlying event kind (album, track, chart, playlist, artist) — summaryData/metadata shapes vary accordingly (kept permissive).
Path Parameters
- Type: integeridmin:2max:2147483647required
Integer numbers.
- enumconst:1values
- 1
Query Parameters
- Type: integerlimitmax:50
Integer numbers.
- Type: integerweightmax:10
Integer numbers.
Responses
- application/json
Request Example for get/api/artist/{id}/news
curl 'https://api.chartmetric.com/api/artist/2/news?limit=10&weight=5' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_SECRET_TOKEN'
{
"obj": [
{
"id": "1",
"type": "artist",
"subType": "playlist",
"formattedDate": "2025-02-21",
"imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27317db30ce3f081d6818a8ad49",
"summaryTemplate": ":trackName added to Spotify :playlistName at position 1 with 17.2K followers.",
"summaryData": {
"playlistName": "BAD NIGHTAN",
"trackName": "Run BTS"
},
"metadata": {
"playlist_id": "16165930",
"playlistUrlParam": "playlist/spotify?id=16165930",
"cmTrackId": 83623672,
"artistName": "BTS",
"cmArtistId": 206557
},
"stars": 3
}
]
}