If you're lucky enough to have a SXSW Music badge, the possibilities can seem daunting, with about 2,000 acts confirmed throughout the nine-day event. So which SXSW artists are the most likely to make it big? Let's look at data provided by Next Big Sound, a data analytics company owned by Pandora that tracks social and streaming data for hundreds of thousands of artists around the world in order to predict the up-and-coming artists most likely to break big. Here are seven SXSW artists who are worth checking out this year in Austin, based on their social and streaming buzz. Soon after the song's release, she hit the Pandora Trendsetters Chart--which ranks the up-and-coming artists with the highest number of artist station adds--and hit No.

Source: Forbes March 08, 2017 20:02 UTC