Next Big Sound Raises Seed Round For Online Music Analytics

Daniel Brusilovsky, TechCrunch.com, Thursday, December 3, 2009

Next Big Sound, a TechStars 2009 company that tracks the growth and popularity of music groups across major web properties like MySpace, Twitter, Last.fm, and others, has raised a seed round in the $1 million range. The company would not reveal the exact amount, but did confirm that they had recently raised the funding.

As Robin described it in August, Next Big Sound is a statistics and comparison engine a la Alexa or Compete, but for music artists and industry professionals. Next Big Sound measures number of fans, number of plays, and comments for bands.

Next Big Sound has been tracking over 500 million fan interactions and almost 500,000 artists since launch. Next Big Sound launched in August at the TechStars Investor Day in Boulder.

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