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Old Music Is Outselling New Music For The First Time Ever
Even Adele can't save the legacy music industry... Old music is outselling new music for the first time ever, according to Nielsen. Some of its has to do with millennials preferring to consume music via streaming or not to pay for it at all. But how bright is the future of any industry that generates more ...
Projecting Trends: Augmented Reality, Advertising, and Music
As part of a 'Projecting Trends' series, this article examines the impact of Pokémon Go and Snapchat as they move toward making augmented reality increasingly mainstream, and the broader effect this will have on the music industry as a result. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer on Synchblog Our new fortnightly 'Projecting Trends' series, created by digital strategist Bas Grasmayer, examines the latest news in ...
Streaming Gives Albums Wings: Why Album Sales Aren’t What They Used To Be
Although Drake's latest album remained atop the Billboard album charts for a solid nine weeks, this prominence was not the result of sales but rather streaming, demonstrating the power of streaming in the modern music economy. Guest post by Glenn Peoples, Music Insights and Analytics at Pandora Key takeaways: Streaming played a key role in keeping Drake’s ...
Self-Imposed Music Scarcity In The Digital Era
Although streaming is the dominant form of music consumption, and seems to be here to stay, many listeners are turning to vinyl-only, or cassette-only record labels to obtain their music. By Glenn Peoples of Pandora Pitchfork has an interesting article today on vinyl-only record labels. They reside in music’s underground but for some people they’re a necessary ...
Vinyl Sales Up Another 17%, Used Sales Surpass New
The growth in of vinyl music sales makes for great headlines. But the vinyl market is really a dual market, according industry analysts MusicWatch- new vinyl sales and used resales. The later, which is the larger market of the two, goes largely ignored by the music industry. The headlines from Buzz Angle’s mid-year music report focused ...
Broadcast Radio Losing Influence As Teens Flock To Streaming And YouTube, Says New "Music And Millennials" Study
On demand streaming is now the format of choice for 15-19 year olds, according to a new study by the Music Business Association and LOOP, and most of those listeners are coming from broadcast radio. 15-to-19 year olds have embraced on-demand streaming as their format of choice, accounting for 51% of their total listening time on a ...
A Look At Nielsen Music’s Mid-Year Report: Streaming Explodes • Rock, Country Struggle To Keep Up With R&B/Hip-Hop. Latin
Nielsen recently released its 2016 mid-year music report and it has some big takeaways. On-demand streaming is exploding. R&B/hip-hop and Latin are surging and Rock and country music need to catch up, says Pandora's Glenn Peoples. By Glenn Peoples, Music Insights & Analytics at Pandora Nielsen Music’s report on the first-half of 2016 is out. The main themes ...
Vinyl May Be Up, But The Album Is Dying
Although vinyl has seen a slight bump, the album format overall is in a steady and rapid decline, something which artists and the music industry as a whole need to take steps to embrace, rather than continuing to create a product which is irrelevant to modern audiences. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 The ...
U.S. Music Consumption Up 6.5%, On-Demand Streams Grew 58% [BuzzAngle Music Mid-Year Report]
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After year's of down numbers, the music industry is finally starting to rebound. Thanks to music streaming, the pace of expansion is accelerating, despite a growing downturn in music sales. U.S. music consumption grew nicely during the first half of 2016, even as sales of most formats declined, according to a new mid-year data from BuzzAngle ...
You Have To Look At These Two Spotify Charts - Is The The Future Of Streaming Music
New information regarding Spotify's financials shows that it still remains the front runner in the ongoing streaming wars, but also reveals that it may face trouble from rising rights costs and a drop in the average profit per user. By Mark Mulligan of MiDiA and the Music Industry Blog Tuesday’s media scrum around Spotify’s financials illustrate that whatever ...
