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News: Technology

Technology: It Really Hasn't Changed Our Taste in Music...

The past decade has witnessed the most insane upheavals in music technology. Everything's changed, but how much has musical taste itself changed during that period? According to data we've looked at, the answer is not that much, even though the ways we access, discover, and share our music have been completely revolutionized. Of course, some things ...

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News: Recording

Frank Zappa is About to Land on Streaming Services...

Frank Zappa is About to Land on Streaming Services...

This means nothing to Gaga and Perry fans, but everything to a sector struggling to win over the artist community. Now, the late Frank Zappa is preparing to land on streaming services like Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody, according to details shared with Digital Music News over the weekend. Zappa, who died in 1993, has a fairly ...

News: Trends

70 Percent of All Music Piracy Happens Offline...

The FBI can't raid this problem, you can hardly track it! In fact, most music fans would hardly call it piracy, yet offline sharing actually eclipses online sharing when it comes to the acquisition of music. The slide comes from an RIAA presentation leaked to Torrentfreak, with researcher NPD Group breaking out the ...

News: Trends

More Proof That Newer Artists Have It Harder...

or the first time this year, older albums started outselling newer albums, across CD, vinyl, and download formats. But this is a trend that's been happening for a while, and reflects a devaluation that is hurting newer artists the most. The reason is that albums simply put more money in the pockets of artists (and their ...

News: Trends

Uh-Oh: Music Financing is Down 37 Percent on the Year...

Don't call it a bubble-pop! But music-focused financing is down a lofty 37 percent on the year, according to the latest tallies. The year-to-date count (as of July 19th) now stands at $256 million even, a number that includes a monstrous, $50 million round for Soundcloud in January and an even more massive, $135 million round ...

News: Trends

British Album Sales Are Officially Imploding...

When's the last time you bought a CD? A recent survey conducted by Audio-Technica in the UK found that 40 percent simply couldn't remember the last time, while 20 percent reported downloading something in the last week. So what about the rest? Nearly half (49 percent) felt that free downloading was perfectly acceptable, which probably means ...

News: Opinion

If the Internet is Global, Why is Music Still so Regional?

Sure, great music transcends borders. But music apps, for the most part, do not. It's a strange state of affairs: the web is global in theory, yet in the 'legit' digital music world, it's all about country-by-country restrictions and licensing hangups. Pandora is famously absent from the UK, one of the most important music markets in ...

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News: Trends

Average Concert Ticket Prices: 1981-2005...

This was a central exhibit in a ten-year, exhaustive class action lawsuit against former Live Nation parent Clear Channel. It focused on the markets of Denver and Los Angeles, and attempted to prove that monopoly control was unfairly driving ticket prices into the stratosphere. It was ultimately rejected and tossed by a federal judge for a ...

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News: Radio

Sirius: The Future Belongs to Those Who Curate...

Sirius XM Radio is lucky to be alive, and their growth hasn't been cheap. But with 22.3 million subscribers, this is easily the largest music subscription service in the world. In fact, they have roughly seven times the global subscriber base of Spotify, and Sirius chairman Mel Karmazin recently claimed to have more subscribers than all ...

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News: Trends

More Than 100 Million Americans Now Listen to Online Radio...

This is a format exploding in front of our very eyes. It's bigger than Pandora, and in fact, it's the reason why Pandora has so many jabbing competitors! According to just-released survey data from Edison Research and Arbitron, 103 million Americans are now accessing online radio in some form, in any month. It's a growth curve ...


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