Slicethepie/SoundOut: Music fan-funding platform Slicethepie has launched a music analytics service SoundOut to give A&R stats on the sales potential of new tracks. The platform leverages Slicethepie's existing community, which is already rating tracks submitted by unsigned artists, but SoundOut packages users; ratings as data costing $20 to $50 per track. Music and video distribution service TuneCore has been signed to sell the reports to artists and MusicXray will be offering SoundOut as an embedded service in its existing measurement package.

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