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Think There's Room for Growth? 75% of U.S. Didn't Download Anything Last Quarter
A new NPD report, The Connected Experience: Building a Bridge Between Devices & Content, shows that while consumers are using connected devices to access digital entertainment content, there is still a great deal of room for growth. 75% of U.S. consumers age 13 and older did not connect or download any digital content in the previous ...
80% Of American Public Does Not Support Government Mandated FM Tuners in Cell Phones
In retaliation to the survey that the National Association of Broadcasters conducted—that showed 78% of the American public would consider paying a one-time fee of 30¢ to gain access to local radio stations through the built-in cell phone chip—the Consumer Electronics Association has carried out their own survey. In it, they report that 70% of cell ...
Do Search Inquiries Indicate Hit or Miss Albums?
Say you're a new artist or have signed one to your roster. Months have gone by, the recording process is over, the CDs are ready to be shipped, and the marketing push has long since been underway. What data would be most helpful in determining how successful the new song or album is going to be? ...
Cool Alert: Nic Harcourt's Back with Livebuzz
Former KCRW “Morning Becomes Eclectic" host Nick Harcourt is back as curator of The LiveBuzz. It's Buzzmedia's new addition to an music and celebrity blog empire that includes Stereogum, Idolator, Absolute Punk and more. Once dubbed the “Star Maker of the Semipopular," Harcourt and his bosses ar Buzzmedia are promising to offer a curated alternative to ...
ASCAP Loses Its Anti-Digital Music Lawsuit
The Second Circuit appeals court has ruled against ASCAP and determined that music downloads are not a 'public performance' under copyright law. Thus, the streaming music royalty rates that Yahoo, Real and others pay to the performing rights organization have been overturned and are being reexamined. For now, they only have to pay for creating copies of ...
Indie Label Asthmatic Kitty to Amazon: Sufjan Stevens is "Worth More Than the Cost of a Latte"
(UPDATED) Some record labels would be happy that Amazon was going to give a deep discount on their hot new release. In fact, Amazon usually absorbs losses incurred by any below wholesale pricing. But indie label Asthmatic Kitty was worried that Amazon's low pre-sale price for their Sufjan Stevens release and the creations of other hardworking ...
Thumbplay Music Offers Exclusive Stream of Bob Dylan Tracks; Gives 30 Readers 30-Day Free Trial
Cloud-based music service Thumbplay Music is offering an exclusive, advance availability of select tracks from Bob Dylan's bootleg collection: The Bootleg Series Vol. 9—The Witmark Demos. Through Thursday, September 30, the music service is providing BlackBerry smartphone users advance access to 15 previously unreleased recordings from the new album. Users can access these exclusive tracks by ...
Your Cognitive Roadmap Starts Here: Creating Anchors for the Music Industry Community
Every day hundreds of news items, blog posts, and links infiltrate my screen. The challenge used to be determining the difference between which bits and bytes need to be paid attention to and those that can be safely ignored. Then, I'd be charged with the task of choosing which of these stories merit getting an item ...
Nielson Report: U.S. Digital Music Sales Flat
According to a new report from Nielsen Research, 630 million digital music tracks were bought in the US in the first six months of this year. That number essentially equals sales for the same period a year ago and follows two years of expansion: 13% 2008-2009 and 28% 2007-2008. Most record labels have projected slow but ...
How Has the Economy Affected the Music Industry?
In part because it was already in it's own downward spiral, it has been difficult to get an accurate read on exactly how the poor economy has impacted the music industry. But Billboard's Glenn Peoples has offered the best brief summary yet of the slump's overarching affect on every corner of both the traditional and emerging ...
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