Songstats
👤 Oskar Eichler (A DJ and label manager who lived the data pain; met his co-founders on 1001Tracklists - two of them now help run it.)🌐 siteoskareichler.medium.comLinkedIn
Four friends in Bali turned music's scattered stats into a subscription 6,000 artists and labels pay for.
Will it work? · our read
Boring and durable. Bootstrapped to about $1.74M a year and 83% margins by aggregating data no single platform will. The risk sits upstream: it resells access it does not own.
01How the money moves
Pull an artist's data from 14 streaming and social platforms
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Show it in one cross-platform dashboard, app and API
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Charge a monthly subscription ($12-100+/mo)
02The numbers
$145K/moStatedself-reported MRR
2025
All figures self-reported via founder interviews.
About $1.74M/yr run rate; 83% gross margin; bootstrapped, no funding.
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Starter Story update - "$145K/mo"Starter Story - approaching $1M ARR, 6,000 customers, 83% marginsongstats.com - product and pricingOskar Eichler on LinkedInOrphiq - Chartmetric vs Soundcharts vs Songstats
$145K/mo is self-reported by the founder via Starter Story (about $1.74M/yr, subscription revenue at 83% margin) - first-party but not audited. The original interview cited 'approaching $1M ARR' with 6,000+ customers; $145K/mo is a later update. Bootstrapped, no outside funding (they burned about $400K of their own before rebranding to Songstats). This is subscription revenue, not GMV. Rival bar weights are our rough read of mindshare, not revenue; competitor prices are list prices seen in comparison writeups. We never score you.