Will iHeart’s Audience Pay? You bet, maybe!
As iHeartRadio rolls out the beta of its PLUS paid streaming service, it’s fair to ask if anyone will pay for it come the live launch in January. read more »
Orderly Transition: As Paid Music Streaming Escalates No Paying Downloader Can Be Left Behind
As rapidly as the music business is moving to paid streaming subscriptions from paid downloads there’s an argument to be made that it needs to move even faster. read more »
Pandora Tops Rapidly Changing US Music Streaming Market
As the music streaming market reacts to the introduction of Pandora Plus, as well as new on-demand services anticipated from Pandora and Amazon, research shows Pandora with the leading share of weekly music streaming hours in the United States in the second quarter of 2016. Nearly one-third (30 percent) of the time consumers spent streaming read more »
For Music Streamers, Playlists Becoming The New Radio
New consumer survey finds that nine out of 10 Spotify and Apple Music users have listened to or created a music-streaming-service playlist, and half of their premium subscribers listen to playlists every time they use the service A new study released by MusicWatch, a company providing consumer research for the music industry. profiled the usage read more »
A Mid-Year Look At Vinyl
The headlines from BuzzAngle’s mid-year music report focused on the growth of on-demand streaming and the carnage surrounding the paid digital download market. Eventually we will turn to everyone’s favorite music topic: Vinyl. BuzzAngle reported a 17% increase in vinyl sales for the first half of 2016, and while not quite the torrid pace of read more »
Bad Company, You Can’t Deny
(With apologies to Paul Rodgers) 57M in US Still Acquiring Unlicensed Music The BBC reported on February 17 that Kanye West’s “Life of Pablo” has already been pirated 500,000 times. According to the article on The Next Web quoting those statistics, piracy is at historic lows. Respectfully, that is a popular belief, though wholly incorrect. read more »
Is It Live Or Is It Streaming?
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Many U.S. Music Streaming Consumers Willing to Pay More for Better Sound Quality
Despite the migration of music listening to smartphones and computers consumers still think sound quality is important read more »
Four Things That Happened in the Last “Year of Adele”
The “Adele Factor” — a retrospective. Just in time for the Black Friday rush, Adele has blessed us with “25,” the follow-up to her chart crushing “21” album which dropped January 2011, after the holidays. First weekend numbers indicate sales will set records, so we thought it would be interesting to travel back to 2011 read more »
Tweety Tumbls over the Vine: OMG, Music & Social Go Mainstream
As recently as three years ago, only one in four of us used Facebook for following musical artists, and half as many used Twitter. read more »