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Whoa: 3 Stores = 94.4% of Indie Digital Revenues...
Just three outlets—iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify—account for more than 94.4% of indie digital revenues, according to a global estimate by AIM (Association of Independent Music). The rest are fighting over a paltry 5.6 percent. Alison Wenham, head of the UK-based consortium, pointed to a lopsided logjam. “There are now a series of monopolies and it is ...
Study Shows Limewire Demise Cut Music Piracy
A new NPD study shows the percentage of U.S. internet users that used P2P to download music fell from 16% in the fourth quarter of 2007 to just 9% in the Q4 2010 when Limewire ceased its file-sharing operations. The average number of music files downloaded from P2P networks also declined dramatically as well. The stats: ...
Study: Napster Had Zero Impact on New Artists
A new study argues that Napster and its predecessors have not reduced the entrance of new artists to the music market. Case in point: CD Baby just announced that new title sign-ups doubled in 2010. Piracy has made it harder to make substantial sums from the sales of recorded music, but it has not affected “the quantity of ...
DJ Dominance of Soundcloud May Be Ending
Early this year SoundCloud embedded content ID technology into its site. Due to the predominance of DJs and remix artists on SoundCloud, Hypebot feared this move might have negative and unintended consequences. According to a new report, it has. Staff writer Miles Raymer at the Chicago Reader says SoundCloud may be raining on its own parade. ...
Music Just 36% of Sales at Trans World Entertainment...
Sure, it's surviving, but this hasn't been a 'record store' for quite some time. According to the latest financial disclosures, just 36% of Trans World Entertainment revenues are now derived from music, up a percent from last year. Trans World owns f.y.e. (for your entertainment), among other properties. So what is the new mix? Well, videos—ie, ...
6 Major Trends That Will Change Radio Forever
Radio hasn't changed much in the last ten years. In fact, radio hasn't changed much in the last twenty years. The single most impactful change in radio happened with the passing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It deregulated media ownership, allowing a company to own more stations than previously. Most famously, Clear Channel went on ...
Want to Realese Digital Only? Think Again
Wish you could save some money and release your next product digital only? That one decision could cut sales by 65% and more, according to some analysis by Glenn Peoples of Billboard. While digital's share is growing around 3-6% a year, even the smallest releases still sell more physical product than digital. Here's the proof: 2010 ...
Digital Album Sales Still Eclipsed by 8-Tracks...
The digital album may ultimately win this race, though cumulative 8-track sales are still much larger than digital album sales to-date. And here's a scary thought: at current growth rates, the brick-like 8-track could actually be hailed the victor. Take a look at these shipment totals, based on RIAA figures dating back to 1973 (the format ...
Meanwhile, in Denmark: 70% of People Think Piracy is a-Okay...
So, where do you stand on piracy? Well, maybe the industry's battle over the hearts-and-minds has already been lost. The latest evidence comes from Denmark, where 70 percent of those polled felt that piracy was mostly okay. The survey, conducted by the Rockwool Foundation, found that 7 out of 10 Danes view piracy as acceptable 'to ...
Proof: The War on Piracy is a Complete Failure
Back in October, Napster co-creator and investor Sean Parker argued that in order to accept Spotify as a business model, you first must accept that “the war on piracy is failure." According to a new Danish study, which echoes his sentiments, 7 out 10 participants questioned—i.e. 70%—felt, to a greater or lesser degree, that piracy is ...
