Data
Our research team maintains the industry's most detailed databases of music-tech companies, investments, and strategic developments. Dive into raw deal data or explore high-level market trends through customizable views — giving you the intelligence needed to navigate partnerships, investments, and competitive dynamics.
Active Data Resources
Music-Tech Investments
Mapping global investment activity in music and tech, featuring detailed trends on startup funding rounds, exits, investor profiles, and geographic concentration.
- Boring is back: Key takeaways from our January investment webinar
- Back to basics: Where music tech money really flows
- 2022 Music/Tech Investment Dashboard: Track funding rounds, IPOs/SPACs, artists on cap tables and more
- 2021 Music/Audio Tech Investment Dashboard: Track $4B+ in deals, exits and IPOs
- The most active venture-capital firms in music (2020)
Music AI Market Tracker
All the information you need to navigate the music AI market — from the top apps, models, and datasets for music creation and production, to updates on major industry partnerships, investments, litigation, and policy.
- Introducing our revamped Music AI Database: 130+ tools, models, and datasets
- Left to our own devices: The state of creative AI tools for artists
- Paradigm shifts: How AI will transform music creation in the next 10 years
- The state of music AI tools
- Breaking down the music AI tech stack
- A field guide to the latest music AI tidal wave
Music Industry Data Tools
The most in-depth list of data tools for the music business, vetted by surveys of real-world industry professionals. Includes first-party streaming and distributor analytics, third-party music market intelligence, email/SMS marketing, ad automation, social media listening, live event analytics, and more.
- Takeaways from our inaugural music marketing data bootcamp
- How artist-friendly are data analytics on DSPs?
- How artist-friendly is fan marketing on DSPs?
- How music professionals use data to pitch artists
- How music professionals use data to market new releases
- How A&Rs use data to scout and evaluate artists
- How the touring industry uses data
- How booking agents use (and don't use) data
- Alex Brees (un:hurd) on streamlining marketing for independent artists
- Starter Pack: Digital music marketing
Archived Data Resources
Music-Web3 Dashboard
A snapshot of the burgeoning market for music NFTs, social tokens, and DAOs, featuring thousands of token drops from nearly 1,000 unique artists and music brands.
- Music/Web3 Dashboard: $160M+ worth of music NFT sales, plus music DAOs and creator tools
- Music NFT sales in 2021: What we learned
- The state of music/Web3 tools for artists
- The state of music DAOs
- Music NFT market update, Q2 2021: Sales down by over 90%, but artists are still experimenting
- Music NFT market update, April 2021: $70.5M in sales to date
- After the drop: Measuring the lifetime value of music NFTs
- New pathways: Analyzing music NFT release strategies from underrepresented genres
- An overabundance of music NFT platforms — and scams
The most interesting jobs in music and tech
A curated collection of forward-looking jobs in the music business — focusing on roles that intersect with new technologies, in-demand skill sets, and cross-industry synergies, providing unique insights into emerging trends and strategic directions for the music business.
- CC: Hiring resurgence for virtual events and music data analytics
- CC: Hiring competition for creator tools, plus NYC's new salary transparency law
- CC: A new product focus for music/Web3, plus industry-wide metaverse and LatAm roles
- CC: Product managers for avatar artists, music/podcast politics, ecommerce services, and more
- CC: Hiring trends across community management, TikTok strategy, metaverse affairs, and more