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

The listening, discovery, and purchasing 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.

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  • 31,717,420 New Plays
  • 4,337,246 New Fans
  • 19,613,115 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


Next Big Sound Charts

Charts

Artists appear on our radar before they go on to traditional measures of success because we measure lower friction actions associated with fans checking out a band online. Every week we release the NBS25, a list of the fastest rising artists on a trajectory to become the next big sound.

See the Charts


2011 Finalists: America's Best Young Entrepreneurs
30 Under 30: Music
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MidemNet Lab B2B Winner
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

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 Clarks 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

  • David Hoffman David Hoffman Co-Founder & VP Product Email LinkedIn
  • Samir Rayani Samir Rayani Co-Founder & CTO Email LinkedIn
  • Alex White Alex White Co-Founder & CEO Email LinkedIn
  • Eric Czech Eric Czech Data Architect
  • Yu-Ting Lin Yu-Ting Lin VP Finance & Operations
  • Colin Willis Colin Willis SVP Sales Email LinkedIn
  • Alec Zopf Alec Zopf Software Engineer
  • Laura Carroll Laura Carroll Director of Customer Support
  • Sam Pucci Sam Pucci Intelligence Architect
  • Walter Blaurock Walter Blaurock Software Engineer
  • Andrew Cohen Andrew Cohen Lead Designer
  • Buck Heroux Buck Heroux Software Engineer
  • Victor Hu Victor Hu Data Scientist
  • Simon Li Simon Li Front-End Engineer
  • Kris Schroder Kris Schroder Sales Engineer
  • Jim Grill Jim Grill Director of Dev/Ops

Want to join our amazing team and see your photo on this page? We're Hiring!

Board of Directors

  • Peter Zandan Peter Zandan Public Strategies, Inc.
  • Ben Siscovick Ben Siscovick IA Ventures
  • Jason Mendelson Jason Mendelson Foundry Group

Next Big Sound's investors are Foundry Group, IA Ventures, 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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beautiful Boulder, CO.

Reach us by phone at
646-657-9837.