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Even As Streaming Changes Music Listening, The Album Holds Its Own
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Contrary to popular opinion, the album is not dead or being totally replaced by playlists. At least, not yet. For some, like Kanye West who is using streaming to redefine it, the album is just evolving. Whatever the motivation, streaming music users still very often listen to full albums. By Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Research The album has been under assault ever since Napster first gave consumers the ability cherry pick their favorite tracks and leave the filler behind. ...
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68% Of Smartphone Users Stream Music Daily
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Illustrating just how pervasive streaming music has become, a new study shows that 68% of smartphone users listen to an average of 45 minutes of streaming music daily. By comparison, 71% watch video daily on their smartphones, but only for an average of 24 minutes. According to a new Parks Associates study, digital media usage varies based on OS brand and carrier. iPhone users consume more media than Android and other operating systems. T-Mobile and Sprint customers have the highest ...
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French Music Sales Plummet
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Although a decline in recorded music revenue is pretty much par for the course by this point, France was hit particularly hard with a 7% drop in 2015, and although streaming was up, it was hardly enough to counteract overall plummeting sales. Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on his Music Industry Blog 2015 was another year of mixed fortunes for the music industry, with Nordic markets showing positive signs (again) while some bigger markets struggle. It is in this context that French ...
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More Than 50% Americans Listen To Online Radio Weekly
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Online radio has reached a new high with 50% or 126 million Americans 12+ now listening weekly. The number of listeners is up from 44% last year, according to new Edison Research survey. “We’ve been tracking this behavior since 2000, and it has truly been remarkable to see this march upward from 2% to half of all Americans,” noted EdisonResearch VP of Strategy, Tom Webster. “The trend here also correlates extremely well with the rise in smartphone ownership. With online radio ...
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Are 15 Second Songs The Future Of Music? [Mark Mulligan]
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As music messaging apps continue to grow in popularity, so too do the truncated versions of pop hits which accompany them, suggesting the traditional three minute song structure could soon be replaced by a somewhat briefer model. Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on his Music Industry Blog Music messaging apps have become something of a boom area in recent years with the likes of MSTY, Dubsmash, PingTune, Flipagram and WordUp pursuing a variety of approaches. It is clear that messaging and music sharing both ...
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Spotify Killed Piracy? 57M In U.S. Still Pirate Music, Says New Survey
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According to the prevailing wisdom, education, judicial action, Spotify, Pandora and streaming music that makes a free or almost free infinite jukebox available to everyone, has killed piracy. But that's not true, according to a new study by MusicWatch. Despite the best efforts of the music industry, the acquisition of unlicensed music from unsanctioned sources has not gone away, according to a new MusicWatch study. In 2004, it was estimated that 41 million in the US illegally downloaded music from ...
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Back Catalog Sales Overtake New Releases
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A recent review of music sales has revealed 2015 to be the first year where back catalog sales (18 months +) exceeded those of new releases, even with the launch of big name titles like Adele's 25. Guest Post by Kevin Cornell on the TuneCore Blog Every year since people have been reading and writing blogs, January has been a time in the music industry to examine the depressing statistics of album sales from the previous year. While often grim, these articles are ...
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