Next Big Sound

Next Big Sound was a music-industry analytics company founded in 2009 out of Techstars Boulder that tracked artists' social, streaming, and airplay signals (plays, fans, engagement across Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, radio and social platforms) and exposed them through a REST developer API used by labels, managers and media. It was backed by Foundry Group, Uncork Capital (SoftTech VC), Alsop Louie and IA Ventures, and was acquired by Pandora in August 2015. Its analytics became Pandora's artist tools and were folded into the Pandora / SiriusXM Artist Marketing Platform (AMP). The standalone developer API and portal (developer.nextbigsound.com) have been deprecated; nextbigsound.com now resolves to Pandora infrastructure and HTTP redirects to amp.pandora.com. This profile is retained as a network identity record for a defunct/acquired provider — no independent live API surface remains to harvest.

Next Big Sound is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Music, Analytics, Data, and Metrics.

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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Music Analytics Data Metrics Social-Media Media Acquired

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

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Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

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Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: next-big-sound
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/next-big-sound.png
name: Next Big Sound
description: Next Big Sound was a music-industry analytics company founded in 2009 out of Techstars Boulder that tracked artists'
  social, streaming, and airplay signals (plays, fans, engagement across Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, radio and social platforms)
  and exposed them through a REST developer API used by labels, managers and media. It was backed by Foundry Group, Uncork
  Capital (SoftTech VC), Alsop Louie and IA Ventures, and was acquired by Pandora in August 2015. Its analytics became Pandora's
  artist tools and were folded into the Pandora / SiriusXM Artist Marketing Platform (AMP). The standalone developer API and
  portal (developer.nextbigsound.com) have been deprecated; nextbigsound.com now resolves to Pandora infrastructure and HTTP
  redirects to amp.pandora.com. This profile is retained as a network identity record for a defunct/acquired provider — no
  independent live API surface remains to harvest.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/next-big-sound/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
- uncork-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: pandora
x-acquired-date: 2015-08
x-redirects-to: http://amp.pandora.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Music
- Analytics
- Data
- Metrics
- Social-Media
- Media
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Music
- Analytics
- Data
- Metrics
- Social Media
- Media
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://nextbigsound.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/next-big-sound-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1

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