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Chart: Top Reasons Some People Aren't on Facebook Plus 2 Lessons for Artists and Marketers
Despite what the media would have you believe, everyone is not using Facebook. And, believe it or not, the top reason is not a a fear of losing their privacy. Most who don't use Facebook, do so because they think its a a waste of time. The chart below is based on a survey of 2,500 ...
Pandora Stats from 2010: 75 Million Listeners, 3 Billion Thumbs - Mostly Up!
2010 proved to be a great year for Pandora. They've doubled their audience to over 75 million listeners, who've thumbed a total of 3 billion songs—mostly up! Each month, Pandora receives 25,000 emails worth of feedback, praise, and general inquiry. And who knows how many miles Tim Westergren, the founder, traveled last year, meeting listeners, buying ...
Get Spotify for Free in North America in 5 Steps
This is a guest post by Voyno of The New Rockstar Philosophy. Have you heard the rumors? Spotify is available in North America. Yes THE Spotify, the service that was supposed to save the industry. While I'm not so sure about saving the entire music industry, I can attest to how slick and user friendly Spotify ...
What Sex and Great Music Really Have in Common
Scientists say that our brain reacts to great music similar to way it reacts to sex. In both of these situations, the experience of pleasure that we have is mediated by the release of the brain's reward chemical, dopamine. This finding is based on the results of experiments done by analyst Valorie Salimpoor of McGill University in Montreal, ...
Colbert Lampoons Music Licensing with Black Keys vs. Vampire Weekend Indie Rock "Sellout Off"
(Updated) Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert took an only half tongue in cheek whack at the recent glut of music licensing in commercials with a “sellout off“ featuring the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney and Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig. The two heavily licensed indie rock bands each aired commercials featuring their songs in a competition ...
Efforts to Prevent Piracy Destined to Fail - It's Hard to Police People at Home [interview]
This is part two of my interview with Joe Cox. He is an economist at of the University of Portsmouth. He recently published a paper titled Seeders, leechers and social norms: Evidence from the market for illicit digital downloading and proclaimed that file-sharers see themselves as the Robin Hoods of the digital age. In this interview, ...
As MySpace Falls, Where Will Fans and Musicians Go?
Updated. It hasn't been an easy year for MySpace. It's numbers have been down for months, earlier this week the company let go of 47% of its staff and parent NewsCorp is publicly trying to offload it. But at least until recently, a core portion of it's user base—musicians and the fans that support them—have remained, all ...
Your Brain While Improvising Music, Freestyling Rap
Is it possible to study creativity scientifically? That's what researcher Charles Lamb wants to know. He has been analyzing how the brain works during musical improvisation. To do so, he has been putting jazz musicians and rappers into fMRI machines and surveying what goes on in their brains when they're improvising. This is a facinating talk. ...
Why You Should Start Using Flattr
This guest essay is written by Robbert van Ooijen. He recently studied online music and music piracy at the master level at New Media & Digital Culture at the Dutch University of Utrecht. Van Ooijen also blogs at HaveYouHeard.It. Last December I integrated the micropayment tool Flattr into my blog, Have You Heard It ,and started ...
Report: Spotify Much Closer to U.S. Launch with Support of Two Major Labels
We know you've heard this all before, but Spotify really does appear to be getting much closer to a U.S. launch. The music streamer is nearing a US deal with Sony Entertainment and has gained the support of at least one other major label group, two music industry sources have told the NY Post. “Spotify is ...
