We believe in the power of data to transform the music industry.

The listening, discovery, and purchase decisions of millions of consumers has moved online and the pace of this transition is only accelerating.

Next Big Sound provides a centralized place to monitor all the behavior and activity happening for artists both online and off.

Next Big Sound tracks more data for more bands online than anyone else in the world.

  • Online activity as of 00:00:00 GMT
  • 4,564,528 New Plays
  • 624,183 New Fans
  • 2,822,569 New Views


Next Big Sound Stats

Stats

Search and compare online music data for the hundreds of thousands of artists in our database in real-time.

Sign up to receive free weekly email reports on any artist you're interested in tracking. Join the thousands of music industry professionals that already subscribe.

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Next Big Sound Premier

Premier

Launching our basic stats product sparked countless conversations across all facets of the music industry. The themes and ideas we heard over and over coalesced into Next Big Sound Premier.

See social media data alongside traditional sales data, radio plays, traffic to an artist's website, and P2P activity… all in one place.

Learn more about Premier


One of the simplest, newest ways for artists to get more knowledge about their fans' activities online is through the Next Big Sound.
Billboard’s Top 10 Digital Music Startups of 2010

Next Big Sound have created a buzz list of bands touting their wares at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, by counting increases in social media activity.

As the music industry and the online world become more and more enmeshed, tracking band popularity via album sales seems rather arcane. That's where Next Big Sound comes in.
It's a statistics and comparison engine à la Alexa or Compete, but for music artists and industry professionals.

Alex White and his coworkers at nextbigsound.com are the modern day Lewis and Clarkes of the digital frontier, collecting data and tips about fan interactions on the web.

If you are a member of the press and would like more information on Next Big Sound please contact us or call us at 646-657-9837.


Meet the Team


Board of Directors

  • Name Peter Zandan Public Strategies, Inc.
  • Name Stewart Alsop Alsop Louie Partners
  • Name Jason Mendelson Foundry Group

Next Big Sound's investors are Foundry Group, Alsop Louie Partners, Jeff Clavier and a handful of angels including David Cohen, Troy Henikoff, Peter Zandan and David Cancel. Next Big Sound is a Boulder TechStars '09 company.


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Next Big Sound is based in
beautiful Boulder, CO.

Reach us by phone at
646-657-9837.