50 Best Music Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent music companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 41,020 companies tracked on Fsome.

41,020
Total Companies
$76.2B
Total Funding
$1.9M
Avg Funding
Los Angeles
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Suno
Suno is a music-technology company that provides an AI-powered platform for gene…
Cambridge $375.0M Series C 2025-11-19
2
Duetti
Duetti is a music financing platform that engages in buying catalog rights from …
New York $618.0M Debt Financing 2026-01-21
3
Splice
Splice is a cloud-based music creation platform that provides musicians and prod…
New York 101 - 250 $159.7M Series D 2021-02-22
4
Paramount Skydance Corporation
Paramount Skydance is a media company that creates elevated, event-level enterta…
Santa Monica 501 - 1K $1.7B Debt Financing 2023-07-11
5
WME
William Morris Endeavor (WME) is primarily a talent agency representing artists …
Beverly Hills 5K - 10K $650.0M Private Equity 2017-08-02
6
Epidemic Sound
Epidemic Sound is a music company that produces music for online creators.
Stockholm 501 - 1K $508.9M Private Equity 2021-03-11
7
LUCID
LUCID creates digital therapeutics using emotion AI to improve health and wellne…
Toronto 11 - 50 $2.8M Pre Seed 2022-08-12
8
SoundCloud
SoundCloud is a social sound platform where anyone can create and share sounds.
Berlin 251 - 500 $542.8M Corporate Round 2020-02-11
9
FENIX360
FENIX360 is a social media platform empowering independent artists across music,…
Singapore 1 - 10 $90.0M Private Equity 2025-12-19
10
Audioshake
Audioshake makes audio more usable for both humans and machines by separating so…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $18.7M Series A 2025-10-01
11
Descript
Descript is a collaborative audio and video editor that transcribes audio to a t…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $100.0M Series C 2022-10-27
12
EVEN
The infrastructure powering direct-to-fan music commerce before streaming.
Brooklyn 11 - 50 $14.3M Series A 2025-11-15
13
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is a music-based entertainment company that offers music r…
New York c 10001 max $9.9B Post Ipo Equity 2026-02-13
14
Rostrum Pacific
Rostrum Pacific is an entertainment company that put forwards a wide genre of mu…
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $150.0M Debt Financing 2025-12-11
15
Moises
Moises is an audio-tech company that leverages machine learning and data science…
Salt Lake City 101 - 250 $40.4M Series A 2025-05-12
16
Musical AI
Musical AI is a technology company focused on secure music licensing, rights man…
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $6.0M Seed 2026-01-13
17
Mirelo AI
Mirelo AI offers AI-driven tools that generate custom sound effects and music to…
T├╝bingen 1 - 10 $41.0M Seed 2025-12-15
18
Napster
Napster enables users to discover, listen, and share music files with others.
Los Angeles 101 - 250 $45.9M Series Unknown 2022-05-10
19
DICE
DICE is a music ticketing platform that helps fans experience more of the shows …
London 251 - 500 $200.0M Series Unknown 2023-08-23
20
LANDR
LANDR is a platform where music makers can create, master, and distribute their …
Montréal 101 - 250 $41.7M Series B 2022-03-01
21
Deezer
Deezer is the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personal global music streaming …
Paris 501 - 1K $685.6M Post Ipo Equity 2022-07-05
22
Wonder Studios
Wonder Studios is an AI-centric creative production studio that produces films a…
London 11 - 50 $15.0M Seed 2025-10-23
23
Barstool Sports
Barstool Sports is a digital sports, entertainment and media brand that delivers…
New York 251 - 500 $178.0M Corporate Round 2020-01-29
24
Xposure Music
Xposure Music helps artists unlock funding through catalog sales, advances & dea…
Montreal 1 - 10 $42.5M Debt Financing 2025-12-01
25
Fender
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) manufactures guitars, basses, ampl…
Scottsdale 1K - 5K $40.0M Debt Financing 2025-09-25
26
Neural DSP
Neural DSP empowers music players by democratizing the access to world-class sou…
Helsinki 101 - 250 $6.6M Series A 2020-06-01
27
Simply
Simply is a global subscription service making the pursuit of creative hobbies s…
Tel Aviv 101 - 250 $92.0M Series D 2021-06-21
28
BeatBread
BeatBread is a platform that provides funding to musicians while allowing them t…
Saint George 11 - 50 $158.0M Series Unknown 2025-08-05
29
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is a music company with the interests of recording and publis…
New York 1K - 5K $1.7M Post Ipo Debt 2021-10-18
30
Artlist
All the AI tools in one place, the choice of 30M+ video creators worldwide.
Tel Aviv 251 - 500 $48.0M Series Unknown 2020-06-29
31
Musicow
Musicow allows investors to buy or sell stakes in copyrights to K-Pop songs in a…
Seoul 51 - 100 $146.3M Series D 2023-05-23
32
Yoto
Yoto is a screen-free audio platform for kids, fostering imagination and indepen…
London 101 - 250 $58.5M Non Equity Assistance 2026-03-19
33
TuneIn
TuneIn offers a global audio streaming platform that brings together live radio …
San Francisco 251 - 500 $146.6M Series Unknown 2020-11-23
34
Spotify
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital…
Stockholm 5K - 10K $2.1B Post Ipo Equity 2023-02-10
35
Radiate
Radiate provides an app that connects people around music events, festivals, and…
New York 1 - 10 $1.4M Series Unknown 2020-02-14
36
Reservoir Media
Reservoir Media is an independent music company.
New York 51 - 100 $150.0M Post Ipo Equity 2021-07-29
37
NetEase Cloud Music
NetEase Cloud Music operates an online music platform and offers streaming servi…
Beijing 1K - 5K $1.4B Series B 2019-09-06
38
Qobuz
Qobuz is an online music service that offers streaming subscriptions and pay-as-…
Paris 101 - 250 $31.8M Series Unknown 2020-09-21
39
Atlantic Screen Group
ASG is a music publishing, production, and investment company that focuses on fi…
London 11 - 50 $30.0M Debt Financing 2026-01-14
40
Stem Disintermedia
Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians collect digital revenu…
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $292.5M Debt Financing 2023-07-11
41
NetEase
NetEase is a internet technology company dedicated to providing premium online s…
Tokyo c 10001 max Series A 1999-12-01
42
Believe
Believe is the digital distributor for independent music.
Paris 1K - 5K $218.6M Post Ipo Secondary 2024-02-12
43
Create Music Group
Create Music Group is a music services company that provides rights management, …
Los Angeles 251 - 500 $165.0M Debt Financing 2026-03-04
44
Downtown Music Holdings
Downtown Music is a music publishing company that provides a range of music stra…
Nyack 501 - 1K $500.0M Debt Financing 2024-05-09
45
Lyric Capital Group
Lyric Capital Group operates with artists and composers to protect their intelle…
New York 11 - 50 $500.0M Private Equity 2021-10-15
46
Concord Music Group
Concord Music Group is a music label company that manages recorded music activit…
Nashville 501 - 1K $6.0B Debt Financing 2025-07-22
47
EngineEars
EngineEars operates as a marketplace for audio engineers.
Los Angeles 1K - 5K $8.5M Seed 2024-02-20
48
gamma
gamma operates as a modern media and music company.
Los Angeles 51 - 100 $1.1B Private Equity 2024-02-01
49
Eros Innovation
Eros Innovation is a digital media company building AI tools to create and scale…
Isle 101 - 250 $50.0M Series Unknown 2025-11-21
50
Audiomack
Audiomack is music sharing and discovery made easy.
New York 11 - 50 $6.4M Private Equity 2020-01-01