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Global Digital Music Sales up 8% in 2011 to $5.2 Billion
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Highlights Of IFPA Digital Music Report 2012: Digital music revenues to record companies grew by 8 per cent globally in 2011 to an estimated US$5.2 billion. This compares to growth of 5 per cent in 2010 and represents the first time the year-on-year growth rate has increased since IFPI started measuring digital revenues in 2004 IFPI estimates that 3.6 billion downloads were purchased globally in 2011, an increase of 17 percent (combining singles and albums downloads Some markets now see ...
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Report: Major Labels Account for Nearly 95% of Airplay and Downloads in Europe...
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Digital Music News
The four-turning-three major labels utterly dominate the European musical landscape, according to a study just shared by Impala. And these are the eye-popping results of the group's 2011-focused report: 95 out of the top 100 downloads in 2011 came from one of the major labels. 94 out of the top 100 played songs on the radio in 2011 came from one of the major labels. More than 90% the top 1,000 most-downloaded and most-spun songs came from one of the ...
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The State of Online Music [stats and Analysis]
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Next Big Sound, the music analytics website that continuously tracks the number of plays, views, fans, comments, mentions, and other key metrics across the major web properties, yesterday released their 2011 State of Online Music—and the numbers are quite staggering: 64 billion new plays, 16 billion profile views, and 3.5 billion new fan connections. Metrics include data taken from SoundCloud, Twitter, Vevo, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, and Wikipedia. Interestingly enough, the largest percentage growth came from SoundCloud at 231% (which might ...
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Two-Thirds of All Vinyl Records Are Sold at Indie Record Stores...
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Digital Music News
This is what indie retailers contributed to overall album sales in the US last year, according to stats shared by Nielsen Soundscan.
And this is what indie retailers contributed to vinyl LP sales, a much smaller but rapidly-growing category.
According to stats recently shared with Digital Music News by Nielsen Soundscan, more than two-thirds (or 67 percent) of all vinyl albums in the US were sold by indie record stores last year. And this ...
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What Fans Are Really Paying for the Music They Love...
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Digital Music News
FREE. It's a term we toss around every day, yet the word is ultimately a misnomer. For starters, even 'free' Spotify users or file-swappers are paying for access, it's just that ISPs typically control the tollbooth. But even beyond that discussion, 'freeloaders' are paying with their time, even if everything feels like free. And 'time' often means 'hassle,' as in the hassle of searching, sifting, organizing, or even dealing with things like viruses and pop-up ads.
In many other situations, ...
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Indie Labels Just 12% of 2011 U.S. Sales. Here's How the Major Labels Divided the Rest
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Overall U.S. music sales rose 6.9% in 2011, as album sales increased for the first time since 2004, according to Soundscan. Digital powered the increase, with sales of album downloads up 19.5% over 2010. But for all the talk here and elsewhere about the ascendancy of independent music, indies accounted for just 12.1% of U.S. music sales last year. Here's how independents did alongside the 4, or if the sale of EMI to UMG passes regulators, 3 major label groups: ...
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