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Is Smooth Jazz Dead Or Is It Just Bad Data?
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Just a few years ago, smooth jazz was hugely popular on radio stations throughout the nation. Recently the genre has been in decline, but is that genuinely a result of fewer listeners, or simply bad data? Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 For a while there in 1990s and early 2000s “smooth jazz" was front and center in radio stations in every major city across the country. Many former rock stations switched to the smooth jazz format in an ...
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Is Apple Music Better Than Spotify Or Tidal? The User Experience Is Put To A Test
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This article offers a step-by-step breakdown of Apple Music's functionality, looking at its design, ease of use, and how the streaming service compares to its competitors like Spotify and Tidal. Guest Post by Jenny Cang on TryMyUI.com For music lovers around the world, Spotify has become the go-to for streaming and sharing music over the past few years. However, with its new music streaming service entering the ring last week, Apple has set out to challenge that market dominance. In April, we ...
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Meet Your Newest Law Enforcement Partners: Spotify And Netflix
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Following Netflix and Spotify's pivotal role in the locating of two accused abductors, some interesting questions are being raised regarding the trade-offs between convenience and privacy. Guest Post by Tim Cushing on Techdirt.com The internet has been tripping up dumb criminals since its inception. Police used to have to raid residences for incriminating Polaroids. Now, the criminals are saving them that step. Hashtagged bragging combined with location-tagged photos of criminal behavior has Darwinned the stupidest criminals right into the hands of local law enforcement. ...
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How Much Money Is Music Streaming Actually Worth? [INFOGRAPHIC]
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The ways in which music streaming services generate revenue and how that revenue is divided has been a topic of both controversy and confusion. This article helps break down how much money is made from streaming services like Spotify and Pandora, and how it is divided. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 There's a lot of confusion in the marketplace about how much a music stream is worth. To say that it's a complicated issue is an understatement. ...
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BuzzAngle Music Takes On Billboard, Nielsen With Dynamic Daily Charts
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What constitutes a hit used to be just about weekly airplay and sales; and for decades Nielsen/Billboard produced the only charts that mattered. Now, upstart BuzzAngle Music is challenging both Billboard's chart supremacy and the frequency at which it measures data. BuzzAngle Music is aiming straight for the weekly Nielsen/Billboard with music charts that uses a proprietary architecture that they say stores data at a more granular level and on a more timely basis, providing daily updates. Rather than supply static weekly ...
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Is The Music Industry Sleepwalking Into Disaster?
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While the popularity of streaming has been steadily increasing, revenue from downloads has been declining, and as more companies like Apple and Spotify focus on a playlist model of distribution, traditional albums, and the music industry as a whole, could be in trouble. Guest Post by, Founder - Motive Unknown The recorded music business is entering into arguably one of the biggest shifts in its existence to date—specifically, the speeding up of the death of the album format and with ...
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I Second That Emotion: The Emotive Power Of Music In Advertising [INFOGRAPHIC]
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A new study out from Nielsen reveals that the use of music in advertisements has been shown to increase their effectiveness at tapping into the emotions of potential customers. Guest Post from Nielsen.com Music is powerful. It can make us smile or cry, bring memories rushing back, and even inspire us to buy a product when it’s combined with the right advertisement. A recent study from Nielsen looked at effectiveness of more than 600 television advertisements, more than 500 of ...
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Jazz this week: Andre Delano, Denise Thimes, Cornet Chop Suey, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's lineup of jazz and creative music shows in and around St. Louis includes a well-known expat back home for a couple of “summer vacation" shows, showcase performances for one of the city's reigning vocals divas and one its top traditional jazz bands, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Thursday, July 9 Saxophonist and former East St. Louisan Andre Delano, who now lives in California, is back home this week for a pair of shows, performing Thursday at ...
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