Soundcharts review

Soundcharts is a music-industry monitoring platform, not a general-purpose marketing analytics tool. It brings artist and song data from radio airplay, charts, playlists and social media into one place, so teams can track performance, compare artists and look for emerging talent.

Soundcharts lists airplay coverage across 2,529 stations in 87 countries, plus real-time data from more than 26,534 charts and 11 million playlists. Its features include artist benchmarking by country and platform, talent discovery through radio and platform charts, and customizable campaign reports with alerts and notifications.

The product is sold in tiers based on the number of artist profiles or the way a team uses the data. The For Artists plan covers one profile; the next tier covers up to 10. PRO adds unlimited artist profiles and rankings, while separate API and Data shares plans target teams querying or receiving music data. That makes the buying decision partly about coverage, and partly about how much access or delivery your workflow needs.

The main appeal is breadth: Soundcharts puts several music-discovery and monitoring sources under one roof. Instead of treating radio, playlists and charts as separate checks, teams can use the platform to follow artists and songs across those areas, compare artists and review where growth is coming from. Soundcharts lists 2,529 radio stations in 87 countries, more than 26,534 charts and 11 million playlists, which gives buyers concrete coverage figures to assess against their markets.

There are also distinct routes for different workloads. The For Artists plan is $10 per month for one profile, or $8.33 per month as an annual-billing equivalent. The 10 Artists plan is $49 monthly, or $40.83 as an annual equivalent, and includes up to 10 profiles. Both list audience insights, chart and playlist positions, and email alerts and reports.

For teams building their own data workflows, the API plan starts at $50 per month and 10,000 queries monthly; the pricing page says it has no per-second rate limits and can scale to 100M+ queries per month. Data shares start at $2,000 monthly and list cloud delivery options including S3 and BigQuery.

The pricing ladder gets steep once 10 artist profiles are not enough. The 10 Artists plan is $49 per month; PRO is $129 per month, or $107.50 as an annual-billing equivalent. PRO removes the profile cap and adds artist and song rankings, API and MCP access, and priority support, but buyers focused only on monitoring more than 10 artists may be paying for features they do not need.

Seat costs add uncertainty. PRO lists 1 to unlimited users, but the pricing page says seat pricing depends on the number of accesses purchased and does not publish the cost. API volume discounts are also available without published discount rates, so larger-team and higher-volume budgets may need a quote. The API plan starts at 10,000 queries per month, while the Data shares plan starts with a limited dataset; the pricing information does not specify the dataset’s exact size.

There is no free plan listed, and trial availability is not published. For smaller teams, that leaves the $10 monthly single-artist tier as the lowest listed entry point, with no published trial to evaluate the product before paying.

According to the pricing page, For Artists costs $10 per month for one artist profile and one user. The 10 Artists plan is $49 per month for up to 10 profiles, also with one user. Annual billing gives two months free: those prices work out to $8.33 and $40.83 per month, respectively.

PRO jumps to $129 per month, or $107.50 per month on annual billing. It includes unlimited artist profiles, 1 to unlimited users, rankings, API and MCP access, and priority support. But PRO seat costs depend on how many accesses you buy, and the pricing page does not publish those rates. The API plan starts at $50 per month for 10,000 queries; volume-discount rates are also not published. Data shares start at $2,000 per month, or $1,666.67 per month with annual billing, and begin with a limited dataset. The page says annual billing gives two months free, so compare the monthly list price with the annual commitment before switching.

Switching to Soundcharts means setting up artist monitoring around the platform’s coverage of radio airplay, charts, playlists and social media. The published materials do not describe an import tool, migration service or process for moving historical data from another provider. They also do not publish export formats or limits, so confirm what you can take with you before making Soundcharts the source for reporting.

The same gap matters if you leave: export and account-retention terms are not published on the vendor's site. Ask about access to historical reports and monitored data, especially before ending a subscription. The product overview says reports, alerts and notifications are customizable, but does not specify what happens to them after cancellation. We also do not have Reddit posts or comments in the published material, so we can’t substantiate a claim about why users leave. For teams considering PRO, get the seat price in writing first; its user range is broad, but seat pricing is not public.