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1. Database

Both platforms have extensive artist databases, however, unsurprisingly, it’s not (just) the size that matters. Data integrity, specifically accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data is a prerequisite for music professionals to make accurate, informed decisions.

Viberate: Every Entity in the Music Industry

Next to 1M artists, over 18M tracks and over 12M playlists, this Soundcharts alternative also analyzes all other relevant entities of the music industry, namely labels, venues, festivals, and events. All profiles are carefully curated to ensure the maximum level of data integrity.

Soundcharts: A Vast Database of Artists and Tracks

Soundcharts currently analyzes over 6M artists and 44M tracks. While this is undoubtedly a vast database, one can find multiple profiles of the same artists, which negatively impacts data integrity.

2. Features

Both Viberate and Soundcharts have a great understanding of their users’ needs. Consequently, they share many similar features. However, there are differences between the two that can tip the scale for users with specific data needs.

Viberate: Industry’s Most Powerful Artist Chart and More

While Viberate’s and Soundcharts’ artist-related features are quite similar, this Soundcharts alternative extends way over the limits of artist pages.

• Their artist chart is indisputably the most powerful chart in the industry. It ranks every artist by their overall music and social media performance. Users can narrow down their selection by applying advanced filters and sorting options.



• Viberate’s artist analytics offers the most complete overview of an artist’s performance, including channel-specific analytics and synthetic indicators for easy tracking and comparison.
• An artist’s promotional potential can be further assessed with a channel-specific drill-down of engagement and top-performing content.
• Users can follow the playlist performance of every artist and pinpoint the right playlists for the genre and mood with a comprehensive chart of editorial and user-generated playlists.



• With the use of audience analytics, users can assess an artist’s regional relevance through geographical distribution, and reach the right audience for releases and other promotional campaigns with a gender and age breakdown of every artist’s fanbase.
• With the compare feature, users can compare career trajectories, streaming, fanbase growth, engagement, demographics, key markets, etc. for any two artists side by side.
• Viberate also offers cross-channel stats of every track. Users can benchmark its performance with the track chart.



• Users can identify potential gig opportunities based on an artist's country, genre, fanbase size and location as well as their career stage with a customizable list of venues and festivals worldwide.
• Last but not least, users can also tailor their dashboards to monitor exactly the metrics they’re interested in and save time creating business reports, including CSV exports.

Soundcharts: High-Quality Artist-Level Data

Heavily focused on artist analytics, Soundcharts offers a variety of in-depth analytical features.

• Soundcharts tracks the streaming and social media performance of more than 6M artists worldwide. Their artist data is sourced from 14 platforms. Users can track streaming and social KPIs, audience demographics, chart performance, playlist adds, radio airplay performance, tour dates, and more.
• Their audience analytics helps users to engage their audience more effectively by getting to know them better.
• On the track level, Soundcharts monitors all the relevant changes and movements of millions of tracks across top platforms and channels. Tracks on Soundcharts are also equipped with metadata.
• Users can apply limited a&r tools to uncover which artists are growing most on streaming and social platforms.
• Soundcharts also provides a compare artist feature that allows users to compare fanbase data of up to 3 artists.

3. Target Audience

While both represent constituent parts of the music industry, artists and other industry professionals, such as a&rs and marketers, often have very different data needs. We’re looking into how each of the platforms serves both of these groups.

Viberate: Two Products for Two Very Different User Groups

Viberate addressed the needs of the two user groups, namely artists and other music professionals, by developing two very different products. Viberate for Artists focuses on the artist’s first-party data, which provides them with the most accurate data available. It’s accompanied by social media stats for a complete overview of their performance. Artists are also able to analyze playlists and pitch their tracks for placements.

On the other hand, Viberate Analytics enables music professionals to get a complete overview of the music industry, discover new artists and compare them among themselves, use different a&r and reporting tools, analyze other entities such as labels, venues and festivals, analyze the state of music in individual countries, and explore over 100 genres and subgenres.

Soundcharts: A Single Layout With Different Levels of Access

Soundcharts is primarily focused on artist analytics. Different plans allow for a different number of tracked artists, but the main data pool remains the same regardless of the user’s role in the music industry.

Despite not providing first-party data, Soundcharts does provide in-depth artist-level analytics that can be used by a broad spectrum of music industry professionals. The latter can apply (albeit limited) a&r filters and utilize reporting tools to achieve their data-related goals, however, all of these are pertaining solely to artists and tracks. Considering the diverse group that are music professionals, there are many other relevant entities, such as playlists, labels, venues and festivals, that so far remain disregarded.

4. Ease of Use

Even a great set of features won’t go far if their use is overly complicated. A great user interface will enhance usability, ensure intuitive interactions, and significantly impact user satisfaction and productivity.

Viberate: Superb Interface According to Users

Viberate prides itself in a clean and modern design with an intuitive interface. Artist pages are extremely well organized and provide for a comprehensible flow of information. Both artist pages and charts are completely customizable, with charts allowing for several different custom views that can later be applied as needed. Users can easily navigate through the platform, find features, and access data. The latter is visualized in a way that appeals not only to analytics-savvy users, but also to those who tend to find numbers overwhelming.

Soundcharts: A Sombre Experience

Soundcharts greets users with a dashboard filled with trending artists from different genres, which can be quite overwhelming and not necessarily relevant to the user. Artists’ dashboards are relatively intuitive, although data is not at all contextualized and there are no explanations as to how it can be used in practice.

The use of space, color scheme and typography provides for a sombre experience, that in itself is not unappealing, but quickly becomes monotonous.

Home and artist dashboards are not customizable, which leaves the user stuck with the initial layout that may or may not adequately address their needs.

5. Pricing

Comparing two similar yet different platforms in terms of pricing isn’t just about finding the cheapest option - it’s about finding that sweet spot where cost high-fives value. Both platforms provide different pricing options.

Viberate: Two Different Products at Different Price Points

Each of Viberate’s paying plans enables access to a completely different set of features, developed for each of the two target groups, namely artists and music professionals.

Viberate Analytics Premium, available for €19.90/month, gives the music professionals access to Viberate’s entire database, charts with a&r filters, compare function, and all other features. A 2-day free trial is available without entering any credit card details.

Viberate for Artists Pro, available for as little as €2.99/month, enables artists to connect their streaming channels and monitor all their first-party data together with social media stats, all in one platform. Additionally, they can pitch their tracks for playlist placemats and use their ready-made website. Artists can try out Pro free for 7 days, without entering their credit card.

Soundcharts: Price Depending on the Number of Artists

Soundcharts offers plans based on the number of artists the user can track.

There is a very limited freemium option, offering abridged stats for the last 28 days.

The cheapest paying plan for 1 Artist starts at $10/month and offers audience insights, chart rankings, playlist analytics and radio airplay for one artist. It doesn’t offer any A&R features or benchmarking tools.

The plan for 10 Artists available for $49/month expands the above-mentioned features to 10 artist profiles.

Full spectrum of features and access to the entire artist database is available with the PRO Plan starting at 129 $/month for per user.

There is no free trial, but a discount is available on all paying plans for yearly billing.

6. Support

When faced with an obstacle, swift and helpful support can make all the difference. But that’s not all that defines great user support. Features need to be presented and explained in a way that enables users to easily find and use them to accomplish their tasks.

Viberate: There at Every Step of the User Journey

Viberate’s customer support is available to everyone at no additional cost. Live chat is open during office working hours and a prompt email response is guaranteed at all other times. An informative help center is located directly on the website.

After choosing their role in the industry, users are funneled into one of the tutorials, demonstrating role-based use cases and best practices. This is followed up by a series of educational emails highlighting different features and their use.

Soundcharts: Priority Support for API Users Only

Soundcharts offers standard online help center support for Artist Plan users, with priority support being extended to API users only. There is no product tour provided upon sign-up. Since the product is relatively complex, users would benefit from a more informative onboarding explaining different features, followed-up by a series of use case-describing emails.