Top 100 Most In�uential Brands A list of the most in�uential brands in the Music Industry, including Streaming services, Magazines, TV and Radio Stations, and Industry Blogs

MUSIC INDUSTRY

BRANDS 1 - 50

Rank Name Twitter Handle PageRank (Normalised)1 Apple Music AppleMusic 1002 Billboard billboard 96.153 Google Play GooglePlay 92.34 iTunes iTunes 61.535 Universal Music Group UMG 55.386

Rolling Stone RollingStone 49.237Spotify Spotify 44.618

Sony Music SonyMusicGlobal 40.7699E! Online eonline 39.2310

NME NME 37.6911MTV MTV 36.1512

Warner Music Group warnermusic 35.3813i-D i_D 33.2414

Soundcloud SoundCloud 32.5615Hypebot hypebot 32.2316

Virgin EMI Records VirginEMI 32.1417Pitchfork pitchfork 31.518

Inc. Inc 32.0619Music Week MusicWeek 31.9220Music Xray MusicXray 31.8821RAZR music RAZRteam 31.8622iStandard iStandard 31.8523

XL Recordings XLRECORDINGS 31.6524Pandora pandora_radio 31.6225Noisey NoiseyMusic 31.5126

Beats Music beats1 31.4427Shazam Shazam 31.2228

Q Magazine QMagazine 31.1429Mixcloud mixcloud 31.0930

BPI bpi_music 31.0731Myspace Myspace 31.0532

Live Nation LiveNation 31.0433The Guardian guardian 31.0434

Starlight SLMGcorporation 31.0335Go Think Big GoThinkBig 31.0136

Music Opportunities Music_Opps 30.9937Music Industry HowTo imusicadvice 30.9838

Banquet Records banquetrecords 30.9739XXL Magazine XXL 30.9140

Freelabel FreeLabelNet 30.8541Rdio Rdio 30.8542

Rock Action rockactionrecs 30.8543BBC Music Magazine MusicMagazine 30.8144

Managers PRO ManagersPro 30.7945Exposed Vocals ExposedVocals 30.7746

Mic micnews 30.7647Deezer Deezer 30.7448

Revolt TV News RevoltTVnews 30.7449Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes coast2coastmag 30.7350

Twitter Music TwitterMusic 53.02

BRANDS 51-100

Rank Name Twitter Handle PageRank (Normalised)51 Music Linkup MusicLinkUp 30.6952 Hollywood Reporter THR 30.6853 Brassland Brassland 30.6654 Music Scouting ScoutingMusic 30.6555 Consequence of Sound coslive 30.6456 Grammy Pro GRAMMYPro 30.6357 Musicians' Union WeAreTheMU 30.6258 Kickstarter kickstarter 30.6259 The Press Releaser Press__Releaser 30.6160 Pigeons and Planes PigsAndPlans 30.6161 Tidal TIDALHiFi 30.6162 Gigwise Gigwise 30.6163 UK Youth UKYouth 30.6164 Gigs And Tours gigsandtours 30.6065 Music Mgmt Mauriceology 30.6066 Music Think Tank musicthinktank 30.6067 The Smoking Section TSSCrew 30.6068 IFPI IFPI_org 30.6069 Emusic Jobs eMusicJob 30.5970 Dotted Music dottedmusic 29.5871 The Independent Independent 29.5872 Black Entertainment Television BET 29.5473 EPK professional EPKpro 29.5374 NAMM NAMMShow 28.7275 Hip Hop DX HipHopDX 28.5376 Music Opportunities MusicOpp 28.4777 Music in�uencers. MIn�uencers 28.3478 Kerrang! KerrangMagazine 28.2179 Sound Facts soundfacts 28.1880 Made It Series MadeItSeries 27.9581 The Verge verge 27.4782 The Music TheMusicComAu 27.4183 Producers Home ProducersHome 26.4984 AIM UK AIM_UK 26.4885 The Unsigned Guide unsignedguide 26.3286 Innerviews Innerviews 26.2687 Sonicbids Sonicbids 26.1888 FACTOR FACTORCanada 25.9489 The Big Music Project bigmusicUK 25.7490 Record Labels Record_Labels 24.4591 CD Baby cdbaby 24.3792 SXSW sxsw 23.9493 Metropolis Studios ThisMetropolis 22.8494 American Songwriter AmerSongwriter 22.4495 Mattrix Minute MattrixMinute 21.8996 triple j triplej 21.4097 The Tennessean Tennessean 20.3998 UQ Music UQMusic 20.1499 Vibe Magazine VibeMagazine 20.10

100 BBC Radio 6 Music BBC6Music 19.38