Next Big Sound, Inc.
IT Services and IT ConsultingNew York, United States0-1 Employees
Next Big Sound, Inc. is an IT services and IT consulting company based in New York, founded in 2009. It focuses on online music analytics and insights, gathering data on daily music consumption and purchase decisions worldwide and delivering it through a single dashboard. The platform combines measures of artist activity with contextual information to support decision-making across the music industry. Its user base includes thousands of independent bands and managers as well as major labels and distributors, and it contributes to Billboard's Social 50 and Next Big Sound charts. In 2015, Pandora Media acquired Next Big Sound, and by 2021 there were reports that the analytics platform was winding down. The company appears to operate with a very small staff.