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Big Data
Solo artist United States
Big Data is an artist from United States. Big Data has 28 chart appearances on 27 radio countdowns from 19 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Dangerous”, which appears on 24 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Big Data most often is 94.3 WCYY (Portland, ME), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Big Data is the Brooklyn electronic project of producer Alan Wilkis, a sleek synth-pop machine with a paranoid streak. Wilkis started recording under the name in the summer of 2012, a sly reference to how sites like Facebook hoover up everything about us, and most of his songs circle the same theme: life lived through screens. Early on he wrote the music while Daniel Armbruster of Joywave handled lyrics, until Joywave's tour schedule pulled Armbruster away.
The 2013 EP 1.0, released on Wilkis's own Wilcassettes label, carried "Dangerous", a slinky, stuttering dance-rock tune with Joywave on vocals. Its interactive video, "Facehawk", turned a viewer's own Facebook timeline into an image of a hawk, and the thing went viral. Two remix EPs piled on more versions of it, the song went to number one on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart in August 2014, and it went gold the next year.
The debut album 2.0 arrived in 2015 with a rotating cast of singers, Rivers Cuomo among them on "Snowed In", and "The Business of Emotion" kept the glossy, jittery mood going. 3.0 followed in 2019.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Big Data on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dangerous | 24 | #1 | 1 | 2014 | |
| 2 | Dangerous f/Joywave | 2 | #6 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | The Business of Emotion | 1 | #86 | – | 2015 | |
| 4 | Business of Emotion | 1 | #75 | – | 2014 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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