2011 State of Online Music

65 billion new plays. 16 billion profile views. 3.4 billion new fan connections.

The amount of online music activity Next Big Sound recorded in 2011 is staggering, and it’s all covered in our first annual State of Online Music report.

The report includes major trends and highlights from 2011: overall consumption numbers, top networks and their most popular artists and days, the top 50 artists of 2011, as well as artists that progressed from our predictive Next Big Sound chart to our popularity leaderboard, the Social 50.

See the full report and download the PDF at nextbigsound.com/industryreport/2011/

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2011 New Plays

64.9 Billion

2011 New Views

16.2 Billion

2011 New Fans

3.4 Billion