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Sound Signal’s State of Trending Music Report for 2024/2025
Sound Signal

Sound Signal’s State of Trending Music Report for 2024/2025

Third Bridge Creative
Our latest trending music report spotlights the past year in music and offers insights for its future.
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What Is Music Intelligence?
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What Is Music Intelligence?

Third Bridge Creative
How humans and data collaborate to figure out what's happening—and about to happen.
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Finding Balance with Philip Sherburne

Guidance
Arguably the world’s best electronic music journalist just wants to grow tomatoes.

Sound Signal: Viral R&B, Aesthetic Rap, and Buzzy Pop Punk

Sound Signal
Four emerging artists from our new, bi-weekly music intelligence newsletter.

On Getting Your Artist Story Right

Guidance
A conversation with the Berlin-based dance music artist Afriqua about finding his fans and prepping an album rollout.

The Power of Fandom

Sound Signal
Sound Signal digs into the transformative A&R power of fandom through the rise of a new K-pop boy band.

Five Unconventional Approaches to Digital Music

Insights
Business is booming, but there is still plenty of opportunity to experiment with the way music is delivered, consumed, and monetized.

Are We the Music Brain?

Insights
Exploring the possibility that TBC and its contributor network are answering the music questions you’re asking ChatGPT.

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