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Spotify Responds to Century Media Pullout, Another Label Joins Anti-Streaming Chorus
(UPDATED) Earlier this week, metal and hardcore music group Century Media pulled its labels from Spotify “to protect the interests of their artists." “Spotify in its present shape and form isn't the way forward," according to the company. “Physical sales are dropping drastically in all countries where Spotify is active." Now Brian Brandt of contemporary classical ...
How Do Users Spend Time Online? A Pew Study [hint: Don't Ditch Your MySpace Page]
UPDATED) Cleaning up email lists and updating MySpace pages are still important for musicians and marketers, according to a new Pew study of U.S. internet users which showed that Email and search remain the top two activities. The May 2011 Pew Internet survey found that 92% of online adults use search engines to find information on ...
Indies Now Have the Largest Album Marketshare...
Did indie marketshare just multiply—overnight? And, trump every major label in the process? According to A2IM, the answer is definitely yes, thanks to a successful US-based recategorization by Soundscan. “Soundscan finally revamped their analysis by adding marketshare breakdown by label ownership," an A2IM representative told Digital Music News today. “It reveals that independent labels collectively lead ...
Like Music, Like Hollywood? DVD Sales Down 18.3% This Year...
Same shit, different industry? Actually, CDs are taking a break from double-digit plunges, at least for the moment. But this sounds like oh-so-many music industry reports of old, and certainly resembles the bigger picture. According to details just released by the studio-backed Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), DVDs and Blu-ray discs dropped an elephantine 18.3 percent during ...
Just 8% of Albums Were Sold by Indie Retailers Last Year...
Doesn't that change the debate a little? Despite their impressive cache and importance to real music fans, indie retailers come nowhere near level of tonnage offered by big box retailers, large chains and iTunes. That's according to Nielsen Soundscan, which found that just 8 percent of albums were sold through independent retailers last year, compared to ...
It's Everywhere: Vinyl Sales Jump 55% in Britain...
This is a cross-Atlantic phenomenon, and now we have more numbers to prove it. According to latest stats from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA), sales of vinyl LPs surged 55 percent in the first half of this year, to 168,296 units. Leading the charge was Radiohead, whose King of Limbs shifted 20,771 copies. But the story ...
Study: Global Digital Music Revenues to Almost Triple by 2015
Global digital music revenues will more than double from $7.4 billion in 2010 to 20.1 billion by 2015, according to the new Digital Music Market Outlook by Companies And Markets. That's a compound annual growth rate of 22.1% over the period. Subscriptions will be the fastest growing segment, growing at a 60.8% CAGR to 2015. In ...
71% Of Adults Online Use Video Sharing Sites
Online video is soaring. 71% of online Americans now use video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, up from 66% a year earlier, according to a new Pew Internet survey. The use of video-sharing sites on any given day also jumped 5% from 23% in May 2010 to 28% in May 2011. Rural internet users are ...
Ready to Ditch the in-Dash CD Player? Ford Is...
Last time we checked, CDs were still selling in the hundreds of millions per year. But automakers have multi-year product cycles to think about, which is why Ford is now officially ditching the in-dash CD player—just like the tape player before it. “In-car entertainment technology is moving digital more rapidly than almost any other element of ...
Streaming, on-Demand Services Reaching Just 10% of Americans...
This is either the beginning of a huge opportunity, or a really huge buzzkill. According to stats just released by Nielsen, the broad range of streaming and on-demand audio services in the US command an active user base of just 10.2 percent, with near-zero growth. Make no mistake, this is a pre-Spotify study, though it does ...
