Data

Curated databases and analyses that connect the dots across pivotal industry trends, startups, and deals.

Coming soon: We're building a unified interface to explore all 700+ companies we track in one place. In the meantime, dive into our individual databases below — all free to access.

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.

Music-Tech Ownership Ouroboros

Mapping the globalization and financialization of power in music and tech, with a focus on the rise in investments from media conglomerates, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity firms.

Music AI Market Tracker

Track the entire music AI landscape — from creation tools and models to industry partnerships, investments, and policy developments.

Music AI Ethics Tracker

Critical examination of music-industry ethics statements on AI — highlighting prevalent themes such as data transparency and artist consent, while also pointing out the lack of focus on issues like bias, safety, and environmental sustainability.

Music Industry Data Tools

The most comprehensive guide to data tools for music professionals, vetted by real industry users.

"For Artists" Streaming Product Matrix

Which streaming platforms actually help artists succeed? Our definitive ranking of 90+ features across profile customization, fan marketing, and data analytics.

Daily Music Data

The curated collection of data resources behind our Instagram series Daily Music Data, keeping you up to speed on the key numbers driving the future of the music business.

Music SVOD partnership deals

70+ exclusive content deals between artists and platforms like Netflix and Disney+ since 2015.

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.

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.

Superfan engagement platforms

A comprehensive overview of startups focused on enhancing direct-to-fan online engagement across multiple interaction and monetization methods, with a focus on key product changes and launches implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Niche music streaming services

A curated list of music platforms filling gaps left by mainstream DSPs by catering to specific genres, community behaviors, and alternative payout models.

Ticketing platforms

A detailed overview of over 60 global ticketing platforms, highlighting key aspects like founding year, location, product features, and market focus — assembled as part of an in-depth exploration into the challenges of launching a new ticketing company in the current concentrated industry landscape.

Music's avatar ecosystem

Tracking the burgeoning trend of avatar creation in the music industry, featuring 40+ companies developing concert holograms, virtual beings, and digital representations for artists.

Remote music collaboration tools

A list of tools for the COVID-19 remote work era, addressing challenges in collaborative music production, file sharing, metadata management, and workflow automation online.

Online music education apps

Tracking the growing market of online music education tools, including key details on pricing, target audiences, lesson formats, and artist endorsements.

Spatial audio tools

Major stakeholders to know in the competitive spatial audio market, including info on key technical features and primary customer segments.

Next-gen financial services for artists

Exploring the evolving trend of democratized record-label advances, featuring over a dozen music and creator-centric companies offering cash advances to artists outside the traditional label system.

Booking startups

A curated list of startups hoping to revolutionize artist booking by creating online marketplaces that connect independent and unsigned artists with event organizers and venues — featuring details on their geographic focus, business models, transparency in artist fees, and concierge services.

Music merch companies

40+ music merch and e-commerce companies categorized into independent agencies, self-serve platforms, and label-owned platforms, offering insights into the diversity of the music merch sector and its potential for innovation in direct-to-consumer retail strategies.

Non-music companies that have started a record label

Tracking the growing trend in the last decade of non-music brands across hospitality, automotive, food/beverage, and other sectors launching their own record labels — examining their motives, operational strategies, and the long-term viability of these ventures