Next Big Sound
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Music Internet |
| Founded | August 2008 |
| Headquarters | New York, New York |
Key people | Alex White: CEO |
| Products | Online music analytics |
Number of employees | 23 |
| Website | nextbigsound.com |
Next Big Sound (NBS) is a New York–based company which provides analytics for online music. The company analyses the popularity of musicians in social networks, streaming services, and radio. The company was acquired by Pandora in May 2015.
Next Big Sound allows users to track mentions of bands and musical artists across several music websites, such as Last.fm, MySpace, Facebook, iLike, and Twitter. NBS calculates and graphs each of these statistics over time and compares the data to that of other similar bands. The site has been tracking this data since June 2009, and reports analyzing over 486,000 bands.[citation needed]