Home » Search Center » Results: Trends
Results for "Trends"
Live Nation CEO Predicts Strong Year for Live Music
Live Nation President and CEO Michael Rapino is upbeat about the live industry's prospects in 2012. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Rapino reiterated what the company had teased in an earlier quarterly earnings report; business in 2012 was up as much as 14%. The teaser also reported that the number of shows ...
Music Funding Already up 27% in 2012...
Music-related financing collapsed during the second-half of 2011, though maybe that was just a temporary tank. Because in the first month of 2012, music-focused companies grabbed an impressive $65.55 million in financing, a jump of more than 26.5 percent over January funding levels last year. Soundcloud made it rain to the tune of $50 million, though ...
Analyst Mark Mulligan on the New "Agile Music" #midem
On Monday, Music analyst Mark Mulligan today shared is theory of “Agile Music"—how music products need to evolve in “the age of mass customization". Mulligan said that the decline and fall of recorded music is why there needs to be a “format revolution" now. Mulligan talked about some of the bright spots last year, including the ...
Study: Merchandising and Branding Are Irrelevant to Most Artists...
There's more opportunity than ever in the history of the world for artists to sell merchandise and monetize their brands. The only problem is that very few of these artists are making any money from these non-traditional sources. Or, even pursuing the possibilities. This was a slide presented at Midem on Monday morning ...
Stop Complaining! Study Shows New Era of Abundance in Music, Entertainment [infographic]
A new white paper presented today a Midem, Techdirt founder Mike Masnick heralds a very different present and future for the music and entrainment industries than the doom and gloom often presented in the mainstream media. Combining statistics from a number of sources, “The Sky Is Rising" shows that: Entertainment spending as a function of income ...
Tom Silverman: 1st Anniversary of the Resurrection of the Music Business
Guest post by Tom Silverman, music industry veteran, thought leader and founder of the New Music Seminar. As I sat and planned the program for the June 2012 New Music Seminar, it occurred to me that we are approaching the first anniversary of the music business resurrection. After ten years of decline, the music business hit ...
Why Fans Buy Vinyl and the Apps That Guide Them
As someone who spends lots of time thinking about the future of music as an app phenomenon, it might surprise you that I do a lot of my listening on vinyl records. I'm not alone—reports abound of vinyl's surging sales numbers over the past five or so years. Though they make up a tiny percentage of ...
Global Digital Music Sales up 8% in 2011 to $5.2 Billion
Highlights Of IFPA Digital Music Report 2012: Digital music revenues to record companies grew by 8 per cent globally in 2011 to an estimated US$5.2 billion. This compares to growth of 5 per cent in 2010 and represents the first time the year-on-year growth rate has increased since IFPI started measuring digital revenues in 2004 IFPI ...
The State of Online Music [stats and Analysis]
Next Big Sound, the music analytics website that continuously tracks the number of plays, views, fans, comments, mentions, and other key metrics across the major web properties, yesterday released their 2011 State of Online Music—and the numbers are quite staggering: 64 billion new plays, 16 billion profile views, and 3.5 billion new fan connections. Metrics include ...
Report: Major Labels Account for Nearly 95% of Airplay and Downloads in Europe...
The four-turning-three major labels utterly dominate the European musical landscape, according to a study just shared by Impala. And these are the eye-popping results of the group's 2011-focused report: 95 out of the top 100 downloads in 2011 came from one of the major labels. 94 out of the top 100 played songs on the radio ...
