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More Than 100 Million Americans Now Listen to Online Radio...
This is a format exploding in front of our very eyes. It's bigger than Pandora, and in fact, it's the reason why Pandora has so many jabbing competitors! According to just-released survey data from Edison Research and Arbitron, 103 million Americans are now accessing online radio in some form, in any month. It's a growth curve ...
Amazon Digital Sales up 29%, iTunes Sales Flat
Amazon's digital sales grew 29% in Q1 2012 compared to Q4 2011. iTunes sales were relatively flat with only 2% growth over the same period, according to eDataSource. Digital sales at Amazon are comprised of kindle content, mp3's, streaming videos and android apps. Music is estimated to account for 12% of Amazon's total digital sales. iTunes ...
Still Think Streams Are Killing Downloads? Think Again...
Spotify payments are ridiculously bad for artists, but are Spotify streams killing iTunes downloads? That probably depends on the artist in question, and in many cases the answer is yes. But on the aggregate, the early answer seems to be that both formats are rising—and paid downloads aren't getting cannibalized one bit. Here's a look at ...
Sales Of Vinyl 45s Grew 99.6 Percent In 2011...
Vinyl is officially booming, but this retro explosion is going beyond full-length LPs. According to data just released by the RIAA, US-based sales of 45s - categorized as 'vinyl singles' - surged 99.6 percent in 2011. This is based on the retail price of units shipped, which means this only counts new stuff - and not ...
'Digital Music Created the Resurgence in Vinyl...'
What's really causing the sudden rebound in vinyl? The easy answer is that fans just want something tangible, a physical memento that isn't iTunes or Spotify. But the more you dig into the vinyl resurgence, the harder it becomes to separate it from everything that's happening in digital. In fact, the incredible access and discovery that ...
Almost 50% of Rhapsody Listening is Mobile, Even Before Full Facebook Integration
Spotify might get more of the press these days, but the veteran Rhapsody recently broke the one-million-subscribers mark, due in part to its acquisition of Napster and Facebook integration that lets people try Rhapsody without whipping out their credit card for a free trial. Unlike Spotify, the Rhapsody app lets people try the service on their ...
Believe It or Not: Music Buying Audience is Growing and the CD is Far from Dead [study]
NPD's new “Annual Music Study" shows that after years of losing consumers who simply stopped buying music, the total number of music buyers increased for the second consecutive year, growing 2% in 2011 to 78 million. The number of paid download buyers increased 14% in 2011 to 45 million customers. Digital buyers also spent more at ...
Study: Consumers Overwhelmingly Prefer Ownership Because of The 'Security'
The simple version is that physical is going digital, and digital is going towards access. The real version, however, seems to be infinitely more complicated. According to a UK-based study just presented by eMusic and the Association of Independent Music (AIM) this morning, a massive 80 percent of British consumers still buy physical stuff like CDs ...
Offline Playback Crucial to Future of Music and Media
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. It's true, what they say: Our digital lives are moving to the cloud. Whenever we fire up Facebook instead of a local email client, we're taking part in the shift from locally-run software to the networked app world. However, some fairly major parts of those digital lives—our music, ...
MySpace Adds 1 Million Users After Music Refocus
MySpace traffic has been in a death spiral for more than two years. At its peak, MySpace attracted 75.9 million unique visitors each month, but that had slipped to 33 million when the site was sold at fire sale prices last June. Slowly, however, that's changing according to MySpace's new owners Tim and Chris Vanderhook. who ...
