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CONTEXT: The Future Of Music Streaming And Personalization?
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By Alexandre Passant on APassant.net With CES starting, I though it would be a good time to reflect on the future of music streaming, and what’s needed to own the space. Not only because the conference holds a session on this very topic, but also because advances in Data Science, wearables, and context-aware computing could bring brand-new experiences regarding how we consume – and discover – music. The need for discovery and personalisation Besides a few exclusive artists, such as Thom Yorke on BandCamp, orMetallica on Spotify, ...
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Music Sales Down In Almost Every Category In 2014 [Year End Stats]
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U.S. music sales were down in virtually every category in 2014 compared to 2013, according to year end stats shared by Nielson. Only vinyl was up, an impressive 54%. The culprit? Streaming music—both free and paid—jumped 54%, as more and more consumers shifted from buying music to borrowing it. Nielsen Music's 2014 At-A-Glance: Overall On-Demand (Audio+Video) Streams 2014 – 164 Billion 2013 – 106 Billion +54% “Digital music consumption continues its robust growth, with On-Demand streaming up 54% ...
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Asia-Pacific Primed for Electronic Music Explosion
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Hisham Dahud - artist, producer, and the Digital Strategey Director of Fame House Without a doubt, electronic music culture has exploded to almost unfathomable heights. With roots in North America, a longtime embrace and sustained culture in Europe, and subsequent resurgence back in the United States, the sounds of this culture are now being heard and felt all the way across waters into a new and hugely expanding market – the Asia-Pacific. Leading the conversation of what’s happening in the region, the International ...
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Music Marketing in the Modern Era
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By Mike Gendel. As 2014 comes to a close, musicians can find little to be optimistic about. The decline in sales continues and it appears that the only album that will have platinum sales this year will be Taylor Swift’s 1989. By this time last year, we had only five platinum releases and according to some, none of them would have been in the top 10 sellers just a decade earlier. The many problems facing independent musicians are growing. The ability ...
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TuneCore Surveys Indie Artists and Label Management on Current State of the Music Industry
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1,112 members of the TuneCore community responded to the survey they dispersed asking indie artists and label management about the current state of the music industry. The industry has been and is continuing to rapidly evolve and as those changes take place, artists are both challenged and expected to keep up. TuneCore posed the survey looking for helpful answers - their users did not let them down. In a recent blog post, TuneCore shared the results of their survey highlighting ...
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Where Creativity Thrives: BitTorrent Users Show Appreciation and Dedication to the Arts
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BitTorrent has tasked themselves with the building of a sustainable ecosystem for artists and fans alike. Fostering a community where fans can connect directly with artists and vice versa, BitTorrent demonstrated their commitment to sustainable art with the launch of BitTorrent Bundles, a publishing project that allows fans to access content via a key that becomes available when users provide an email address or a direct payment to the artist. In September, BitTorrrent asked 2,500 users about the presence of ...
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How Long Do We Listen to a Song?
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By Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 We now live in a world where it's really easy to skip a song that we're listening to if we're not satisfied. This is a revelation of sorts because it wasn't always that way on a personal level in the days of vinyl and even CDs, and of course it's still like that when it comes to radio. But in today's streaming world a new choice is only a click away to switch to something that's ...
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Spotify Royalties Now Exceed iTunes Payments in More Markets
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Music publisher Kobalt has released new stats which show that its writers’ European earnings from Spotify have overtaken those from iTunes. Royalties collected from Spotify’s streaming service in Q1 2014 were 13% higher than those from the iTunes download store in the EU. These numbers says as much about the decline in digital music sales as they do about the rise in Spotify payouts. Together they speak volumes of where the industry is headed. Trending By comparison, Kobalt writers’ earnings over the two ...
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