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MXP4 - Engaging Gimmick or Pointless New Format?

July 31, 2009

The music industry is in a desperate search for new ways to re-engage fans to the point where they are willing to hit the buy button. Most recently we learned that Apple is exploring a new interactive album format code named “Cocktail" and WMG's Rhino is releasing a series of digital 45's with bonus content. Another ...

Study Shows Promise of Ad Supported Music

July 31, 2009

A “TEMPO Digital Music Discovery & Purchase Process" report from Ipsos MediaCT shows that ad supported music services and in particular MySpace Music may offer hope for frustrated rights holders trying to find a way - any way - to monetize music. Consumers describe their current music habits as: When respondents were ...

When the World is Your Stage....

July 30, 2009

Globalization Opens New Doors For Niche Artists For decades music executives and even artists themselves have shied away from many musical niches because their potential audience was too small to achieve an acceptable level of success. But now. with the global marketing and sales reach offered by the int coupled with affordable ...

The 3 Biggest Reasons Music Magazines Are Dying

July 30, 2009

It's no secret that music magazines a rapidly becoming a relic of another era. Most blame a decline in advertising revenue coupled with the growth of free online music media. But ex-Blender staffer Jonah Weiner suggests there are other factors killing our once beloved music rags in his Slate piece “Spinning In The Grave“. There are ...

Chris Anderson Defends "Free" on Colbert Report

July 29, 2009

The Biggest Industry Mistakes of the Digital Age

July 29, 2009

Audioholics has composed a list of its favorite corporate and industry-specific “disasters" and the music industry proudly made the list in two places. The Largest Music Retailer Is A Computer Company - Why did the music labels and an entire industry sit on its laurels and allow a computer company to innovate and develop the largest ...

Where You Make Music Does Matter

July 28, 2009

music & the entertainment economy I've written before about how where you make music may matter more than you'd think it might in a globally connected world. It's not just the size of the music industry where an artist as located that matters. In fact, more important appears to be the size of the music scene ...

Digital Music Market: Evolving Business Models, New Challenges and the Future

July 28, 2009

A new Digital Market Outlook study says that the increasing adoption of broadband and mobile technologies and the widespread adoption of smartphones and portable music devices continue to drive the digital music marketplace. Key findings: The global digital music market will grow from $4.81bn in 2009 to $13.74bn by 2013 The industry is characterized by rapidly ...

Could an Apple "Cocktail" Bring New Life to the Album and the Music Inudstry?

July 28, 2009

Apple and the four major label groups are reportedly collaborating on an interactive album bundle that would add additional content like liner notes, lyrics, videos and more to every album download. Code named Cocktail, “It's all about recreating the heyday of the album when you would sit around with your friends looking at the artwork while ...

Survey Shows Pirates Can Become Paying Fans

July 25, 2009

A new Interpret research report on the music consumption behaviors of “illegal" downloaders shows that while downloading can't be eradicated, there are steps that the industry can take to get downloaders to pay for music and even become assets to record labels and artists. “Illegal downloaders have been a source of frustration ...