Next Big Sound provides a centralized place to monitor all the behavior and activity happening for artists both online and off.
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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 tracks more data for more bands online than anyone else in the world.
Mission: Knowledge to Navigate the Modern Music Industry
How can artists know if they're doing well on Pandora, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? It’s all about context. And now you can get access to that context. We’re excited to introduce you to Weekly Performance.
https://blog.nextbigsound.com/weekly-performance-insights-e2a9e149d91
Introducing Notifications, our new emails alerting you of social & streaming spikes for the artists you care about: https://blog.nextbigsound.com/next-big-sound-introduces-notifications-17a1ee033517
Learn how data science empowers artists to grow their audience and careers. Vote for our #SXSW proposal! http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/73643
Having trouble getting your music on the radio? After the success of "Big Little Lies," Pandora Trendsetter Michael Kiwanuka suggests TV instead: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyblake1/2017/04/10/big-little-lies-standout-michael-kiwanuka-tv-is-perfect-for-artists-who-dont-fit-into-radio-mold/#ff1deb61a8cd
After his song "Cold Little Heart" was featured on the opening credits to HBO's "Big Little Lies," Michael Kiwanuka talks about why television is the perfect place for artists who don't fit into the radio "mold."
For Pandora Trendsetter Khalid, it's all about location, location, "Location."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyblake1/2017/03/14/khalid-location-american-teen-el-paso/#610ae274ca6d
The Texas border town of El Paso plays a big part on Khalid's debut album 'American Teen,' and the city has played a big part in the R&B singer's success.
Julia Michaels, the songwriter behind Justin Bieber's "Sorry," steps into the spotlight on this week's Pandora Trendsetters Chart
https://blog.nextbigsound.com/pandora-trendsetters-pop-songwriter-julia-michaels-debuts-khalid-reigns-2e9330c41e2#.grikfymtq
On this week’s Pandora Trendsetters Chart, we’ve got the songwriter behind “Sorry” stepping into the spotlight, an up-and-coming rapper…
The message in the data is plain and clear: Dagny is a new rising pop star out of Scandinavia.
She’s one of Republic’s latest bets, and if you run the numbers odds are in their favor. Her name is Dagny, and she is a tiny blond Norwegian with a big pop talent, and a lot of traction.
Exciting news for artists and managers! As of today, you can connect any verified Pandora AMP account in Next Big Sound to add its demographic and geographic analytics to your existing data from all other social and streaming sources.
Next Big Sound is incredibly excited to surface the #1 most requested data source: Pandora.
A Promising artist with Mainstream numbers? We're calling it now: Dua Lipa is the next big pop star.
VideoLOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 15: Singer Dua Lipa arrives at the Warner Music Group's celebration for the 58th annual Grammy Awards at Milk Studios on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) 1. I don't immediately know how to pronounce her name. Is i…
Call it taxonomy, classification, even organization — it is what we use to make sense of almost everything around us. We build systems and put things in logical, labeled boxes that help us comprehend the world.
Why shouldn’t the same be true for the artist?
Check out our hot-off-the-press State of the Industry report:
FKA twigs is about to hit Mainstream and is right on benchmark. Find out where your artists stand.
Taylor vs Wiz? Fetty vs The Weeknd? Here's our data journalist Liv on how different @TheGRAMMYs might look if the fans, not the Academy, chose the winners.
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 12: (Editors Note: This image has been modified using digital filters.) Recording artist Meghan Trainor attends the inaugural Image Maker Awards hosted by Marie Claire at Chateau Marmont on January 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Trainor is nominated for Best New Artis…
We're all so excited to welcome our new brothers and sisters from Ticketfly to the Pandora family.
We celebrate the song of the summer well into the cool days of fall, but what about the artists that keep bringing the heat?
The verdict is in. As flip flops are solemnly stowed away, fall flannels and rain coats make their debuts, every music rag in the nation anoints one track or another the Song of the Summer – most of them settling on OMI’s sleeper smash “Cheerleader.” But frankly... so what? LOS ANGELES, [...]
We're loving our first month here in the Pandora offices in NYC, and so excited to be celebrating 10 years of music with our new colleagues.
From the desk of our esteemed data journalist Liv Buli: the three young women set to take over the music biz. Keep an eye out for Halsey, Alessia Cara and AURORA in 2015.
Watch out Adele, Emeli Sande, and the like - a new generation of young female singer-songwriters are charging into the public eye. Here are three emerging artists you should already be listening to. Halsey Fresh off the release of her debut album Badlands, Halsey's numbers are soaring. Making ripple…
We're so excited to share our mid-year update on the State of the Industry. Milestone, guys: we tracked more than a trillion streams in just the first six month of the year! #datatodate
I stream, you stream, we all stream some Trap Queen. Read more on @nextbigsound’s Data to Date report #datatodate
Music lovers and industry folks, if you love our annual #SOTI report... watch this space for an exciting mid-year update.
The new documentary about Amy Winehouse caused a spike in her social and streaming activity, something we often see for legacy artists.
The new documentary about Amy Winehouse causes a spike in social and streaming activity.
A great party at Blade Helicopters last week for the NBS team with our pals from Master & Dynamic.
Here's five of the hottest up-and-coming acts to watch out for at Bonnaroo this weekend.
Today marks a major milestone for Next Big Sound, we are so excited to begin this next chapter.
https://www.nextbigsound.com/pandora
The first ever #nextbigblockparty is going down tonight with our friends from the neighborhood and @thejanedoze on the ones and twos.
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A nice piece from the MailOnline today illustrating what we do and how we do it.
New York-based Next Big Sound collects public social data for thousands of artists and correlates this with sales and streaming numbers to track who is popular - and who will be a future success.
A co-branded promotion for Britney Spears's new single "Pretty Girls" was a smash hit for Uber this year. #brandsandbands
Country crossover megastars Zac Brown Band's "Jekyll + Hyde" is the first album to be released on famed menswear designer John Varvatos's new record label. #Bandsandbrands
Brands and bands get even more intimate with the latest record from the Zac Brown Band. This week saw the release of the Zac Brown Band’s fourth studio album in strategic partnership with Brown’s own Southern Ground Artists, Big Machine Records, Republic Records, and the newly formed John Varvatos R…
The X Ambassadors collaborated with Jeep to promote "Renegade", both the SUV and the hit song. #bandsandbrands
Some big news for artists and the music biz at large from social media behemoth Instagram today. Check it out on Billboard.
Instagram has unveiled @music, the Facebook-owned company’s first-ever content vertical and dedicated portal for highlighting artists and their activities.
We're really excited to have been named to the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 Class of 2015 alongside so many game-changing and innovative entrepreneurs.
Picking hits used to be an art. These three co-founders turned it into a science.
Bob Marley's social numbers are on fire today. They are smokin'. They're really high, is what we're saying.
Here's our NBS Intelligence Architect, Sam Pucci, on the theory of Edge Case Design - building smarter software that expects the unexpected.
https://medium.com/next-big-sound/edge-case-design-ddff1265d620
I’m obsessed with edge cases.
With a killer debut performance at the MTV Movie Awards and "Trap Queen" racing up the the charts, Fetty Wap is on fire.
https://medium.com/next-big-sound/certified-gold-though-fetty-wap-has-more-to-offer-than-trap-queen-9266e42908b1
It was about a year ago when a young rapper from Paterson, N.J. uploaded a track to SoundCloud that would start a chain-…
Adhering to a trend we have recently seen with hotel groups increasingly curating music programs, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. has made some strategic artist picks for its upcoming "Hear the Music, See the World" concert series.
#Brandsandbands John Legend Bastille
This week from Billboard
"The industry is now in the age of 'Big Data' -- the information generated by digital platforms like Spotify and Twitter, and the tools to analyze it for insights."
http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6524078/big-data-mining-digital-gold-rush-companies-that-get-it?source=gravity
With recent social growth like this, Rihanna is about fourfiveseconds from catching up to reigning Twitter superstar Katy Perry.
The social data doesn't lie: our research suggests that Zayn Malik was the most expendable member of OneDirection. There's always business school!
Turns out a fair percentage of Will Ferrell fans do, in fact, like delicious, pre-packaged snack cakes. We smell a profitable (though totally involuntary) brand ambassadorship for Little Debbie.
We chatted with Sheppard about dropping their album in the U.S., touring with Meghan Trainor, brand deals, and band pranks.
http://onforb.es/1GNiuHB
Sheppard are more than just a band. They are a family. Well, to be specific, the Aussie natives are comprised of three siblings and three good friends, who together are making music that is taking the world by storm. Having already gone 5x platinum with their hit single “Geronimo” in Australia, [...…
How'd they get in this position? A catchy single with an adorable music video collaboration (and a dusting of that Justin Bieber social media magic) has resulted in skyrocketing Twitter mentions for Tom Hanks and Carly Rae Jepsen.
In naming style icon Rihanna its new creative director, PUMA may have found a perfect fit.
#Bandsandbrands https://www.nextbigsound.com/brands
With a score of 40% and rising on the Next Big Sound Billboard 200 chart, 2015 just might be the year of James Bay. His debut full-length album 'Chaos and the Calm' drops this March.
http://onforb.es/1wdyYD2
James Bay is a well-spoken and thoughtful young man. While it would be easy to get caught up in the trappings of everything that is going on with his own career – awards, press, world travel, sold-out tours – Bay is reflective about the hard work and good fortune it [...]
Everything has been awesome on social media for Tegan and Sara and LEGO since their collaboration at the 2015 Academy Awards. #Bandsandbrands https://www.nextbigsound.com/brands
Fetty Wap's recent ADIDAS collaboration, smash hit "Trap Queen" and strong score of 31 on the NBS Billboard 200 chart indicate he just might be a future chart king. #bandsandbrands nxt.bg/bb200
Check out our latest case study to see how we predict the stars of tomorrow on the Billboard 200 chart.
https://www.nextbigsound.com/billboard-200
Keepin' It Two Hundred — Next Big Sound's Billboard 200 Score is better than any single metric at predicting tomorrow's top artists.
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