CBC Listen: Music & Podcasts
69
Quality Score
Solid
CBC Listen: Music & Podcasts
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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CBC Listen: Music & Podcasts is an Android app from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the Music & Audio category, currently rated 4.9★ across 12,647 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 69: Solid (established niche player). For a Music & Audio app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$688
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$602 – $2169
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$557 – $5017
per month
INDIE tier
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$115K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $85K – $155K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙Music & Audio complexity ×1.45 | +$22K |
| 🌐Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$40K |
Total estimate$115K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 17× MRR multiple
💸~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
Final multiple17× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.6M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
320K
Daily active
160K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲Music & Audio engagement | ~130 installs / rating |
| 🔁Music & Audio D30 retention | 20% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.50 |
DAU / MAU50% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$688/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$586 – $1.4K
12 months
$602 – $2.2K
24 months
$557 – $5.0K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 41/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
4.1
Product Quality
6.3
Revenue Strength
2.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
3.5
Market Position
0.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $275 - $1720/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.5★ across 3,078 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12K-$22K. Portfolio play ($1K/mo combined) commands premium.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (12,647 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (12y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- CBC Listen: Music & Podcasts
- Developer
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Bundle ID
- com.nobexinc.cbcradio.rc
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Music & Audio
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- cbchelp.cbc.ca
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $688/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth12,647 ratings+16% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Listen to live CBC Radio, the best in CBC Podcasts and curated playlists from CBC Music with the free CBC Listen app.
Your local and national CBC Radio One and CBC Music shows are right at your fingertips, live from anywhere.
Listen to critically acclaimed series from Canada’s #1 podcaster with shows like Uncover, The Secret Life of Canada, Front Burner, and Someone Knows Something. Discover the best in true crime, investigative reporting, fiction and more.
Tune in to over 200 curated music streams featuring brand new releases from Canadian artists and different genres.… View full description on the official store →
Your local and national CBC Radio One and CBC Music shows are right at your fingertips, live from anywhere.
Listen to critically acclaimed series from Canada’s #1 podcaster with shows like Uncover, The Secret Life of Canada, Front Burner, and Someone Knows Something. Discover the best in true crime, investigative reporting, fiction and more.
Tune in to over 200 curated music streams featuring brand new releases from Canadian artists and different genres.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for CBC Listen: Music & Podcasts: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 12,647 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does CBC Listen make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, CBC Listen earns approximately $688/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
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Who makes CBC Listen?▴
CBC Listen is published by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is CBC Listen's BU Score?▴
CBC Listen has a BU Score of 69/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.