A&R Analyst - Sony Music Nashville

About Sony Music Entertainment At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time. Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship. Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies. As an A&R Analyst with Sony Music Nashville, you will have a central role in supporting our A&R team by providing important insights and data-driven evaluations on both rostered and undiscovered artists.  In this role, you will implement and manage data-driven methods to discover new artists, run daily reports to aid in artist discovery and analysis, construct statistical insights and predictive metrics, conduct research on artists and analyze new music – both signed and unsigned. This role is a unique opportunity to help the company discover our next superstars and help drive data-assisted decision making within the A&R team. What you'll do: Conduct research to evaluate new music and improve the A&R team’s understanding of new music metrics including social networking sites, data and analytics Extract, prepare, analyze and present relevant music and social activity data to help identify new potential talent while also monitoring the marketplace and constructing new methods to draw insights from this data Develop and implement new analytical processes, technologies and tools for use by the A&R team and other departments in support of trend identification, etc. Regularly meet with A&R team to provide updates on activity and marketplace Generate weekly reports and lead meetings to brief team on artists of interest Work with internal teams as needed to create and troubleshoot queries, dashboards and other identification tools Create artist-specific reports detailing audience growth and consumption relative to similar artists Compile and monitor stream count and social media metrics for unsigned, undiscovered artists Identify and interpret relevant data in the context of the current music landscape Assess and summarize tendencies in consumption source across genres/subgenres Proactively identify additional areas for analysis and identification of new artists Deliver and present large data sets in a useful and meaningful way, by presenting key information across seve...