“The Music CIA” a.k.a. Next Big Sound

• The leading provider of online music analysis and insight is Next Big Sound.  Its tagline is “actionable intelligence for the music industry”. It measures the popularity and growth of bands and artists.  (Source)
• Here’s a link to David Cook’s Next Big Sound page.  You can click on the various websites and see the percentage change.  Some important places like Last.fm haven’t seen an increase lately.  So it’s time more of us signed up and participated perhaps.
• Next Big Sound gathers its data from these websites and digital music services…sign up on some of these and comment, stream, check the latest on him.