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Albums Still Have Some Value According To Nielsen Music Mid-Year Stats [Bobby Owsinski]
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Even a casual industry observers know that album sales haven't been what they used to be, although some new numbers out from a Nielsen Report reveal that, even in the height of the streaming age, there is still some value in album sales, particularly if you belong to the music industry 1%. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 You’ve heard a lot about the decline of the album, and while there’s still some value there, it continues to ...
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When, How Music Matters To Gen Z [Infographic]
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In this piece, Chris Robley looks at an interesting new study from Spotify investigating the listening habits of those under 25, which reveals some curious new stats on how Generation Z is consuming music. Hint: They're into the sad stuff. By Chris Robley from CD Baby's DIY Musician blog The listening habits of people under 25. Spotify created an infographic showing cultural and music-consumption trends among an “empowered, multinational, cross-cultural, socially aware, and informed group of 15- to 24-year-olds who speak their ...
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Is Classical Music Streaming's Next Big Genre? [Mark Mulligan]
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Streaming is introducing a larger and more diverse audience to classical music. “These new audiences bring with them new expectations about what classical music listening should be like and they present a major new opportunity for the classical market," writes Marl Mulligan. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA and the Music Industry blog. Classical music has long been viewed by many as a rarified genre that stands apart from other forms of music. While there is clearly something in that, something ...
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5 Trends That Make Gen Z The Streaming Generation
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The Culture Next Trends report commissioned by Spotify and research agency Culture Co-Op looks into the empowered, multinational, cross-cultural, socially aware, and informed group of 15- to 24-year-olds dubbed Generation Z. “We’re bold, fearless, careless, creative, and intriguing,” says Addy, a study participant from North Carolina. Powering this sentiment is technology, which “brings different cultures from faraway places closer together than we can ever imagine,” says Jared, from the Philippines. Below are five defining traits of Gen Z uncovered in ...
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8 Surprising Statistics Shaping The Music Industry
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Brant David McLaughlin of Music Industry Insights breaks down eight music industry statistics, revealing some unexpected areas of growth, as well as. some indicators as to where the industry as a whole might be headed moving forward. Guest post by Brant David McLaughlin from the MidemBlog Across this last month of blossoming Spring, exciting times in the music industry have been heating up along with the temperatures. Read on to learn all about them…. 2 weeks is the average time that it takes Spotify ...
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Millennials Prefer Yesterday's Hits Over Current Ones
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While a lot of people complain about contemporary music as adults (preferring the music they grew up with) this theory of the case doesn't seem to apply to millennials, according to a new study, which reveals the demographic to overwhelmingly recognize music from the 1960s through to 2000, with a precipitous dip in recognizing anything released later. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 You hear a lot of complaints about music today being too computerized, repetitious, lyrically vapid, ...
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DIY Musicians Now Earn More Than $2 Billion A Year
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DIY musicians now in earn more than $2 billion a year from recorded music, music publishing income, live performance fees, merchandise sales and other income Music industry analysts MIDiA recently estimated that DIY and self releasing artists earned $643 million in recorded music revenue in 2018. In a new Rolling Stone piece, MBW's Tim Ingram looked at more recent data from DIY distributors including Tunecore, CD Baby, DistroKid and Ditto and added $100 million in DIY publishing revenue, to estimate ...
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Consumers Getting Fed Up With Streaming Subscriptions
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While many television consumers have cut the cord and are eschewing traditional cable in favor of streaming options, it seems these same streaming services are taking up some of the practices which made cable so unappealing in the first place, and consumers are less than thrilled. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 It’s a pretty fair statement to say that we all hate our cable company, so much so that many of us have already cut the cord ...
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