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Techstars '18Paris, FR · Founded 2015 · 14 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
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Soundcharts provides real-time music data analytics and monitoring tools for radio airplay, streaming performance, and chart positions across 7M+ artists and 2,200+ radio stations in 84 countries. The platform is designed for music industry promotional teams, publicists, and labels to track release performance and identify PR opportunities.
Also known as Soundcharts
Founders & leadership
soundcharts was founded in 2015 by David Weiszfeld.
Investors · 4
How we know: Kima Ventures's portfolio page · research · musicweek.com · Not right? Tell us
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Soundcharts is a music-industry analytics platform delivering global, real-time data on artist and song performance. It aggregates and normalizes metrics from AM/FM radio airplay, digital music services, charts, playlists and social media into a single dashboard, with alerts, customizable reports and CSV export. The product is available as a web and mobile application and as an API.
The platform's stated coverage includes more than 20 million artists, radio airplay monitoring across 2,504 stations in 87 countries, data from over 23,985 charts and 11 million playlists, and more than 200 million data points processed daily. Analytics modules cover Spotify consumption, audience and playlist exposure; Instagram audience demographics and engagement; playlist additions on Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, YouTube and Amazon Music; charts from iTunes, Apple Music, Deezer, Shazam, YouTube and TikTok; and social profiles on SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.
Use cases described by the company include monitoring release performance, auditing broadcast and third-party partner reports, supporting A&R signing decisions, measuring marketing campaign impact across channels, identifying high-potential local markets, and optimizing playlist strategy.
Founding story
Founder and CEO David Weiszfeld began his career at Universal Music France as an intern in 2006 and later became Head of International Development/Sales, working on the international careers of artists including Stromae, Feist, Kavinsky, Carla Bruni and C2C. He left the major label in 2013 to create the artist management and consulting company bSHARP before building Soundcharts.
Business model
Subscription software-as-a-service sold to music industry organizations and professionals, complemented by a developer API with tiered pricing, and enterprise bulk data delivery (data dumps and live feeds to customer storage such as S3, GCS, ClickHouse or Databricks).
SaaS subscriptions to the web/mobile application plus paid API access; a free app account and a 1,000-call API trial are offered as entry points.
Traction
Fully launched in Q3 2016 after a year in beta; by September 2017 it reported 250 enterprise clients in 23 countries. The company states that more than 20,000 artists use Soundcharts for Artists, and that the platform covers over 20 million artists, 2,504 radio stations in 87 countries, 23,985+ charts and 11 million+ playlists, processing more than 200 million data points daily.
Latest developments
The company's API documentation describes access tokens as the recommended authentication method alongside legacy API keys, an official Python SDK, an MCP interface, and enterprise-scale data dump and live feed delivery to customer storage systems. Website figures cite 2,504 monitored radio stations in 87 countries, 23,985 charts and 11 million playlists.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positioned as one of the leading analytics platforms in the music industry, offering an all-in-one alternative to consulting disconnected per-platform statistics; at its 2017 Series A it reported 250 enterprise clients across 23 countries and use at the three major labels.
Combines social, streaming, charts, playlist and radio airplay data in one integrated real-time dashboard rather than separate raw sources, and positions its team as music industry practitioners building technology for their own sector.
Technology
Data ingestion and processing infrastructure that tracks, cleans and archives large volumes of music performance data in real time. The public API uses HTTPS with access tokens or legacy API keys, a single base URL for sandbox and production distinguished by credentials, offset-based pagination with a consistent JSON envelope, average response latency around 200ms, recommended limits of up to 5,000 calls per minute, programmatic quota and rate-limit tracking, an official Python SDK, an MCP interface, and enterprise data dump and live feed options.
Go-to-market
Self-serve free account and API trial sign-ups on the company website, solution pages targeted at specific roles (A&R research, promoters, publicists and promo, radio programmers, music publishers, education), in-app and email support, and direct enterprise sales including bulk data delivery. Visibility was also built through winning the Midemlab startup competition in 2017.
Music industry professionals and companies, including project managers, marketing and promotion teams, A&R teams, artist and artist-manager teams, distributors, radio and festival programmers, publicists, publishers, promoters, educators, and artists themselves. Early enterprise clients cited include Believe Digital, 300 Entertainment, SONGS Publishing, Red Bull Records and Ignition Management, alongside the three major labels.
Geography
Headquartered in Paris; following its 2017 Series A the company was recruiting to open offices in Los Angeles, New York and London. Data coverage spans radio stations in 87 countries, and its 2017 client base spanned 23 countries.
History
The platform launched fully in Q3 2016 after roughly a year in beta. In June 2017 Soundcharts won the 10th anniversary edition of Midemlab, the international competition for music-related startups. In September 2017 it announced a $3.1m Series A led by Alven Capital with Kima Ventures and Global Founders Capital, earmarked for strengthening technical leadership and opening offices in Los Angeles, New York and London. The company has since expanded its product into a web/mobile app plus API, and launched a real-time global media and web monitoring tool called Mentions.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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Timeline · 5
launches, deals, and filingsParis-based Soundcharts announced a $3.1m (€2.65m) Series A led by Alven Capital with participation from Kima Ventures and Global Founders Capital, to strengthen technical leadership and open offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.
$3.1M source ↗
Following the Series A, the company said it was recruiting to open offices in Los Angeles, New York and London before the end of 2017.
Soundcharts won Midemlab, the international pitching competition for music-related startups held at Midem.
Soundcharts launched Mentions, a real-time global media and web monitoring tool.
Soundcharts fully launched in Q3 2016 after a year in beta.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- soundchartssoundcharts.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does soundcharts do?
- Paris-based SaaS platform providing real-time music analytics across radio airplay, streaming, charts, playlists and social media.
- Who founded soundcharts?
- soundcharts was founded by David Weiszfeld in 2015.
- Who are soundcharts's investors?
- soundcharts's investors include Kima Ventures, Techstars, Alven Capital, Global Founders Capital.
- Where is soundcharts headquartered?
- soundcharts is headquartered in Paris, FR.