Showing posts with label Music Industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music Industry. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

"new music streaming service"

June 10, 2015 Apple , Hayley Tsukayama 0 Comments
Apple’s Strangest WWDC Announcement, And Why It Sort Of Makes Sense

By Hayley Tsukayama, Jun. 8, 2015, Washington Post

Among the many things that Apple announced at its annual developers conference Monday was one that we really weren't expecting: the launch of a radio station.

The rest of Apple's much-anticipated music service is largely a matter of feature-matching what's already out there into a neat Apple package. That's not to say the service isn't interesting, but on-demand streaming, personalized "stations" to surface new music and even curated playlists are par for the course in the online music world. So is its $10 per month price tag. But "Beats 1" is different: a global radio station that features not only a constant stream of curated music, but also real, actual DJs. Apple has tapped three prominent names in radio -- Zane Lowe in Los Angeles, Ebro Darden in New York and Julie Adenuga in London -- to lead the station, which seems to have the genre distinction of "whatever we think is cool."

It's an novel idea, and one that Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine said came straight from Nine Inch Nails frontman and Beats chief creative officer Trent Reznor.


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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Somehow, someway, the music finds a way...

June 07, 2015 Daniel Ek , Music Industry 0 Comments
Daniel Ek: Spotify And Free Music Will Save The Industry, Not Kill It 

By Stuart Drege, Jun. 6, 2015, The Guardian


The chief executive of Spotify, Daniel Ek, has predicted that the free online music service will help the industry grow to as much as 10 times its current size, in a future where old distinctions between providers break down.

Having paid out $3bn to music rights holders so far, Spotify is pitching itself as a competitor to traditional broadcasting, having recently added news, weather, podcasts and videos to its service. “The old-world paradigms we used to have are no longer true. When I think about music in the future, I don’t make a distinction between what’s radio, what used to be the music library, and so on,” Ek told theObserver in a rare interview. “It’s only going to be listening – and, as that goes forward, this old notion of these different industries or different competitors will collapse and merge together.”

Spotify is stepping up its efforts to appeal to mainstream radio listeners by emphasising its collection of playlists “programmed” by an in-house editorial team and suggested to users based on the time of day, popular activities and their listening habits. “We’re getting better and better at giving upcoming artists exposure on the service and creating tools to give those new artists a way to market themselves.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Material Girl's STILL Rockin' It!

March 17, 2015 Madonna , Music Industry 0 Comments
Charts: Madonna Misses Number 1 For First Time Since 1998, As “Empire” Scores a Victory

By Roger Friedman, Mar. 17, 2015, Showbiz411.com

Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” might have been number 1 if it weren’t for the soundtrack to the TV series “Empire.” When the numbers come in this afternoon at hitsdailydouble, “Rebel Heart” will be number 1 on the total chart, which counts streaming and all digital downloads. “Empire” will be number 1. “Empire” will also finish at number 1 on Billboard’s chart, as they now count everything, too.

Who could have guessed that “Empire” would come out of nowhere and steal all the attention in the culture? It’s out of left field, an ambush of sorts.

Madonna’s one consolation: she’ll be number 1 on the hitsdailydouble “regular” chart which is just CDs and digital downloads, but no counts from places like Spotify or Pandora. Some of Madonna’s sales will come from digital copies of “Rebel Heart” that came with concert tickets. But I’m told by various sources that those copies are not a big factor, not anything like they were two years ago for “MDNA.”

The rough numbers stack up like this: “Rebel Heart” will have a total of about 115,00 copies. “Empire” will have around 130,000 copies. Around 25,000 “Empire” sales come from streaming, however. But they count into that total, so in the end, Madonna does not debut at number 1 for the first time since 1998.

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Monday, December 29, 2014

Hey, Material Girl's had a nice, loooooong run

December 29, 2014 Madonna , Music 0 Comments
Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” Break: Six New Songs Fizzle As Sales Collapse Within Days

Roger Friedman, Dec. 27, 2014, Showbiz 411

On amazon.com things are much much worse.. “Living for Love,” which was supposed to be the lead single, is at number 529 among digital singles. Five hundred twenty nine. And the “Rebel Heart” album is at 167. Ouch!

Madonna, like other legacy artists, has not been able to sell albums in the last decade. “MDNA,” “Hard Candy,” and “American Life” were all sales disasters. New fans are not forthcoming for a 56 year old artist. Old fans only to want to hear the hits. It’s a hard fact of life for everyone, not just Madonna.

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

People still buy music from brink and mortar?

December 06, 2014 Billboad.com , Ed Christman 0 Comments
Black Friday Brings Rough Sales Numbers For Music Retailers, High Notes For Vinyl And Online

Ed Christman, Dec. 4, 2014, Billboard

According to Nielsen Music, album sales declined 15.2 percent for the week ending Nov. 30, when sales were 7.28 million units, versus the nearly 8.6 million units scanned last year during the corresponding week ending Dec. 1. That decline is significantly higher than the 12.3 percent decline in album sales that the industry has experienced so far this year.

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