Chapter 05 · Signature Product

DEEP CUT™

Your fans, ranked. Your real ones, found.

Most artists treat their fanbase as one audience. Deep Cut shows you it's actually five — and tells you exactly what to do with each one.

Five tiers.
One scoring engine.

Every fan in your ecosystem gets a Deep Cut score from 0 to 100, based on how they engage, what they spend, and how long they've been with you. The score determines the action.

★ Super Fan
Buys everything. Tells everyone. Worth everything.
90–100
Loyal Fan
Regular spend. High engagement. Core audience.
70–89
Active Fan
Engaged but occasional. High conversion potential.
40–69
Casual Fan
Streams only. Nurture toward deeper engagement.
20–39
Shadow Fan
Pressing™ created. Not yet identified. Highest opportunity.
0–19
2%
of listeners are superfans
They generate 18% of streams and drive the bulk of concert and merchandise revenue. Deep Cut finds them inside your follower counts.
— FanCircles, 2025
$3.3B
uncaptured superfan revenue
Industry-wide, sitting uncaptured because artists can't identify who their top supporters are across fragmented platforms.
— Variety
40×
conversion uplift with contact info
A known fan with an email address is exponentially more valuable than a follower. Deep Cut prioritises identity capture across every touchpoint.
— Variety (citing NYT)
✦   SCORE DRIVES ACTION   FROM FOLLOW TO FORTUNE   ✦

Every fan gets the right ask.
At the right time.

Deep Cut isn't just a number — it's a decision engine. Each tier triggers a different campaign, offer, and creative approach. No more blasting your whole list with the same message.

Fan Score → Action Triggered
FAN SCORE
Score: 0–30
Shadow → Casual
Goal: deepen the relationship
  • Follow on socials
  • Save tracks on Spotify
  • Watch the music video
  • Capture the email address
  • Soft retargeting campaigns
Score: 31–65
Active → Loyal
Goal: convert to spend
  • Join the newsletter
  • Pre-save the next release
  • Share with their network
  • Early access offers
  • Custom audience retargeting
Score: 66–100
★ Loyal → Super
Goal: maximise lifetime value
  • Buy the merch
  • Go to the show
  • VIP / bundle / vinyl
  • Brand collaboration audience
  • Ambassador / referral program

Deep Cut is Bside Blueprint's proprietary fan scoring model. Every fan in your ecosystem gets a score based on how they engage, what they spend, and how long they've been with you. And here's why it matters more than any vanity metric — your superfans, that critical 2%, are hiding inside your follower counts right now. They look identical to casual listeners on any platform dashboard.

Deep Cut finds them. And it scores every signal — not just paid media conversions. A fan who clicked your YouTube link, visited your site twice, and opened your last three emails scores higher than someone who followed you on Instagram and went quiet. Organic engagement counts. We make sure it does.

The score updates in real time. Every action a fan takes refines who they are to your business — and what to do about it next.

★ Right now, on this page

You're already being scored.

Deep Cut™ isn't just for your artist clients — it runs on this site too. From the moment you arrived, you got a unique Pressing™. Every page you visit, every click, every scroll feeds your Deep Cut score with us. You're the proof that the system works.

This is exactly what we build for the artists we work with — except instead of qualifying a marketing prospect, it's qualifying a fan, telling the artist whether to email them about a new release, retarget them with a tour ad, or invite them to a VIP listening party.

Want Deep Cut™ for your artist?

It's the centrepiece of every Bside Blueprint engagement. Let's talk about what it could find in your fanbase.

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