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.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Next Big Sound the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Next Big Sound scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Next Big Sound
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Next Big Sound. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Next Big Sound — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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