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# Next Big Sound Rebuilds And Updates Music Analytics Platform
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/next-big-sound-rebuilds-and-updates-music-analytics-platform/
- Published: 2012-09-24T09:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2012-09-24T09:10:00.000Z
- Description: Music analytics startup Next Big Sound has recently unveiled a completely redesigned and rebuilt data platform for musicians and their management / marketing teams. While the service continues to track plays,. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/09/next-big-sound-rebuilds-and-upda
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Music  
analytics startup [Next Big Sound](http://nextbigsound.com/?ref=hypebot.com) has recently unveiled a completely **redesigned**  
**and rebuilt data platform** for musicians and their management / marketing teams.  
While the service continues to track plays,  
views, fans, comments, mentions and other key metrics across major web  
properties for musicians, the company says that this new product has been built from  
the ground up and is easier to use, faster, and more powerful.

  
During  
the “old days” of the music industry, the metrics surrounding an artist’s  
growth and viability were relatively straightforward. Primary data indicators  
were easily discerned and made available such as music sales, radio spins, and concert attendance figures.  
Throughout the past decade however, the ways that people interact with music  
have changed dramatically due in large part to the role the Internet has played  
in shifting the way we consume and share our music. Fan interactions with an  
artist’s brand and content are now scattered all across the web, making it  
difficult to be continually made aware of an artist’s sentiment.

Next  
Big Sound looks to make things easier for musicians and their teams by  
combining daily social, streaming, sales and event data into dashboards and  
reports. Some  
of the updates this new version has in store includes:

- **Artist Overview:** A bird’s-eye view of what is going on with  
any of the artists tracked by Next Big Sound.
- **Actions Bar**: Where you can  
export, share, or bookmark any report or page
- **Reports Dashboard**: Multi-artist  
interactive reports allowing you to keep tabs on an entire roster across  
multiple metrics
- **Artist Graphs**: Compare  
artists and metrics in time-series graphs, while their built-in events allow  
you to spot what causes spikes.
- **Data Confidence:** All data  
reporting issues are accessible in one central place.
- **Email Reports:** Receive weekly  
email reports that highlight your artist stats.

This new Next Big Sound is available as a free version and includes access to tons  
of metrics and graphs, as well as the ability to connect sources such as Google  
Analytics and Facebook Insights. For $20 per artist per month, users  
can upgrade to unlock additional features like a complete artist overview, a  
geo section, and a tracks section.

Next Big Sound joins a number of others who monitor the web  
for musicians including [Big Champagne](http://bcdash.bigchampagne.com/?err=&ref=hypebot.com), [Musicmetric](http://www.musicmetric.com/?ref=hypebot.com), [MusicHype](http://www.musichype.com/?ref=hypebot.com), and [Jamplify](http://jamplify.com/?ref=hypebot.com) –  
each with their own unique approach to gathering fan data and presenting it  
back to those who make strategic decisions pursuant to that information.

—

***Hisham Dahud*** *is a Senior Analyst for Hypebot.com. Additionally, he is the head of Business Development for [Fame House](http://famehouse.net/?ref=hypebot.com) and an [independent musician](https://soundcloud.com/hishamdahud?ref=hypebot.com). Follow him on Twitter: [@HishamDahud](http://twitter.com/hishamdahud?ref=hypebot.com)*