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Streaming Now Generates More Revenue For Music Industry Than Downloads, Physical Combined
Double digit growth in streaming in 2016 meant that Spotify, Apple Music and their competitors now account for 51.4% of all U.S. music revenue. Digital downloads were 24.1% in 2016 and physical was 21.8% of total revenue. This marks the first time since 1998 that the industry has posted back-to-back years of double-digit growth. These milestones were ...
Apple Music Had 20% More Users Last Month Than Spotify or Pandora
90 day free trials helped Apple Music amass 20% more unique monthly users in the U.S. in February than Spotify or Pandora, says a new just released study by Verto Index. Apple Music had 40.7 million monthly unique users in the U.S. last month, according a new study, That compares to 36.2 million users for Pandora and ...
How The Web Screws Artists... By Allowing Them A Normal Life
In this piece, Ross Pruden of Techdirt works to dispell the myth that the internet is destroying art and culture, making it impossible for artists to make a living via their creative work. Instead he looks at how the internet has allowed creatives to target niche markets of fans and consequently thrive. Guest post by Ross ...
Pandora Under Pressure Even As Music Industry Warms To Westergren
Pandora used to be the company the music industry loved to hate. An aggressive campaign to lower royalty payments and a now ex-CEO who cared more about money than music earned the ire of many. But just as that image is changing, Pandora is feeling new pressures. When Tim Westergren took back his job as the ...
Jazz this week: Kneebody, a tribute to Scott Joplin, "Sculptures in Sound," and more
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis offers a century-spanning variety of sounds, ranging from a tribute to legendary composer who helped lay the foundation for jazz to a group offering their own contemporary version of a musical melting pot. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, March 29 The eclectic electro-acoustic ...
Patti Page: Land of Hi-Fi
On Monday and Tuesday, May 7 and 8, 1956, singer Patti Page was in Holloywood recording a jazz-pop album arranged by Pete Rugolo with a crowd of the finest jazz studio musicians in town. Produced by Bob Shad for EmArcy, Mercury Records' jazz subsidiary, Patti Page in the Land of Hi-Fi was most likely recorded in ...
Music Discover Platform TuneGo Launches A Record Label
TuneGO, a music discovery platform aimed at working musicians and industry professionals announced that they are launching their own record label aimed at helping to break artists. The TuneGo label launch coincides with the recent addition of Marcus Spence, Senior Vice President of Mosley Music Group, as Head of A&R for TuneGO Music Group. He has ...
Harold McNair: Flute & Nut
Harold McNair is barely known today. Yet he was one of the prettiest and most exciting modern flutists of the late 1960s and very early '70s. He was a beautiful saxophonist as well. McNair got off to a slow start in the jazz world and when he did, jazz was fading away for newcomers. Born in ...
2017 And The Future Of Email
Now that we're a healthy ways into 2017, many digital marketers are curious about what the rest of year has in store for the future of email. In this article from Team Fanbridge, we dive into four different areas of email marketing and where they might be headed. Guest post from Team Fanbridge With 2017 well underway, many digital ...
Introducing Voltra's 'Stream To Own' Approach
Although the idea of owning music may seem antiquated in the streaming age, a new online store known as Voltra is approaching things differently by offering consumers a 'stream to own' option, where users can initially listen to a song for free, and then pay for it incrementally with each consecutive listen until they have fully purchased ...
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