If you expected EDM here (I did) you probably either did not read Liv Buli’s article from 2013 or you live outside the US. Four out of the top ten profiles are record labels. There is not a single non-hip hop, non-US profile in the list. The genre information was extracted from the respective Wikipedia pages.Īll of the top ten users are (US) hip hop profiles.
Here is a list of the top 10 profiles by followers count:Īll follower numbers are rounded down. It is Future with 9.48M followers - a gigantic figure in the SoundCloud ecosystem. The artist with the most followers is not Skrillex, Avicii, The Weeknd, Kanye West, David Guetta, Justin Bieber or Drake. There are roughly 1,000 artists on SoundCloud that have follower bases exceeding 250,000 users. Do not analyze graphs with more than 500 million nodes at home. The results are based on publicly available data and do not claim to be complete, correct, or representative. The report is not sponsored or endorsed by any artist, label, or SoundCloud. Disclaimer / Warning: the following analysis features personal opinions and was performed by professional SoundCloud listeners. In this post I want to share some insights and maybe some surprising facts around the numbers of one of the biggest online music platforms - SoundCloud. And sometimes it even kills a career before it starts. But what’s true for businesses also holds true for artists: without numbers it is significantly harder to be successful. They create, publish, sell, negotiate, deal with payments, do marketing… However, it is really hard to find relevant performance indicators for artists. Music artists are in many ways similar to startups. When startups try to measure progress and performance of their products, they use key performance indicators (KPIs).
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