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Chartmetric

San Mateo, US · 1 known investors

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Chartmetric is a music analytics platform that aggregates streaming, social, and playlist data across services like Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, YouTube, Shazam, and Soundcloud, with AI-driven insights and a data assistant. It serves music industry professionals such as A&R teams, labels, and marketers for artist development, talent discovery, release campaigns, and market research.

Also known as Chartmetric

Founders & leadership

SCSung Cho
Sung ChoinFounder and CEOHe previously served as Principal Product Manager at Oracle for Sales Cloud and was an early engineer at Gamevil, a mobile game developer, where he led the company's initial game development efforts. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Chartmetric operates a music analytics and intelligence platform that aggregates data from streaming, social and discovery services including Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Shazam and Soundcloud. The platform tracks more than 11 million artists, 130 million tracks and 26 million playlists, and presents cross-platform performance data for artist development, trend spotting, talent discovery, release campaign tracking, market research and audience demographics. Artist profiles include classifications such as career stage, recent momentum, network strength and social engagement, alongside metrics like popularity score and playlist reach.

Product features include advanced filters by genre, region and release date, shortlists of artists or tracks, comparables for benchmarking against similar artists, talent search for A&R research, and customizable cross-platform reports. A Data Assistant, described as powered by Chartmetric Intelligence, answers natural-language questions and returns analysis, visual charts and insights. The broader suite also includes Onesheet, an automatically generated artist homepage synced to real-time Chartmetric data; Custom Dashboard, a tailored music dashboard with expanded internal data access; a developer API providing direct access to the underlying dataset; and Data Shares for aggregate analytics. The company also publishes "How Music Charts," a data-driven editorial publication on music industry trends, and periodic research reports such as the Trigger Cities Report and Year in Music.

Business model

Chartmetric provides a subscription-oriented analytics platform and adjacent data products, including a developer API and data-share arrangements, plus custom dashboards and artist one-sheet tools for industry users.

Traction

The website cites coverage of 11M+ artists, 130M+ tracks and 26M+ playlists, a 4.7/5 G2 review score, and testimonials from A&R professionals and artists; data collection is described as ongoing since 2016.

Latest developments

Recent published work includes the 2024 Trigger Cities Report and the second edition of the Year in Music report covering 2024, alongside the Data Assistant powered by Chartmetric Intelligence.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Positions itself as a comprehensive cross-platform music data provider covering major streaming and social services, citing a 4.7/5 G2 rating and use by industry professionals.

Emphasizes breadth of platform coverage in a single interface combined with explanatory context behind data movements, plus AI-generated insights and prebuilt tools such as comparables, talent search and automated artist one-sheets.

Technology

The platform ingests and processes millions of raw data points daily from streaming, social and radio-adjacent channels, applying AI to generate insights. A Data Assistant powered by Chartmetric Intelligence converts user questions into analysis and visualizations, and a developer API exposes the underlying dataset for custom applications.

Go-to-market

Music industry professionals, including A&R and talent scouting teams, labels, marketers and artist managers, as well as developers building applications on the company's data.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Artists trackedJan 202511,000,000 artists
G2 review ratingJan 20254.7 out of 5
Playlists trackedJan 202526,000,000 playlists
Tracks trackedJan 2025130,000,000 tracks

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 2

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2024
Chartmetric 2024 Trigger Cities Report

Published a research report analyzing the role of "trigger cities" in helping new artists become established globally.

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Jan 2024
Chartmetric Year in Music 2024

Second edition of the company's annual Year in Music report, covering artist development, fandom dynamics and streaming trends using data collected since 2016.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Chartmetric do?
Chartmetric is a music analytics platform aggregating streaming, social and playlist data with AI-driven insights.
Who founded Chartmetric?
Chartmetric was founded by Sung Cho.
Who are Chartmetric's investors?
Chartmetric's investors include Crit Ventures.
Where is Chartmetric headquartered?
Chartmetric is headquartered in San Mateo, US.