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Radio Still Rules and Pirates Subscribe According to New Consumer Research
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Last week MIDiA Consulting released a new report by Mark Mulligan regarding a UK consumer survey, “Decoding the Digital Music Consumer," that reveals only one digital activity in the top 5 music activities of today's consumers. Watching music videos came in second to that long-time winner listening to the radio. Third in line? Buying CDs! Takeaways include the fact that radio and CD's are far from dead and that there's lots of room for growth in the digital sector. MIDiA ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 16, 2013
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio (Whaling City Sound) 305 261 +44 2 49 1 9 2 2 2 Rene Marie I Wanna Be Evil (Motema) 277 257 +20 2 45 2 5 3 3 3 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 271 251 +20 0 46 1 13 4 4 4 Houston Person Nice N Easy (HighNote) 230 236 -6 1 46 ...
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Gennett Records This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to a ragtag recording studio in rural Richmond, Indiana that between 1922 and 1928 became a focal point for a hot jazz revolution. Gennett Records was the first record company to record significant black artists like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, as well as white jazz pioneers Bix Beiderbecke and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 9, 2013
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio (Whaling City Sound) 261 282 -21 1 44 1 8 2 6 2 Rene Marie I Wanna Be Evil (Motema) 257 216 +41 2 46 2 4 3 1 3 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 251 310 -59 0 44 1 12 4 4 4 Houston Person Nice N Easy (HighNote) 236 227 +9 3 48 ...
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Will Spotify's Transparency Lead to New Demands from Artists?
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Following thousands of articles about how Spotify pays—or doesn't pay—enough money to artists, the company, again worth $4 billion after another round of investment, issued a mini-website on Tuesday to explain how it is not ripping off artists by streaming their music for free or for a monthly subscription to music fans in 39 countries. It's not just a public relations move. Spotify is also giving artists direct access to their data (soon), assembled ...
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Pandora Releases Latest Audience Metrics
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Pandora today announced new metrics for the month of November 2013. Listener hours for Pandora during the month of November 2013 were 1.49 billion, an increase of 18% from 1.27 billion during the same period last year. Share of total U.S. radio listening for Pandora in November 2013 was 8.44%, an increase from 7.17% at the same time last year. Active listeners were 72.4 million at the end of November 2013, an increase of 16% from 62.4 million during the same time period last year. Pandora ...
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"When Swing Was The Thing" This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we time-travel back to 1930s Manhattan to hear what the Swing Era was like from the perspective of a young fan, thanks to the teenage diaries of Bob Inman collected in his Swing Era Scrapbook published by Scarecrow Press. Special guest, San Francisco actor Darren Bridgett joins us with excerpts from Bob Inman’s diaries. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 2, 2013
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 310 308 +2 0 48 1 11 2 2 2 Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio (Whaling City Sound) 282 302 -20 0 47 2 7 3 3 3 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 239 261 -22 0 48 2 10 4 5 4 Houston Person Nice N Easy (HighNote) 227 240 -13 5 47 4 3 5 4 ...
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