Browsing all posts in May, 2009.
Twitter Traffic
Unique views to the Twitter website went from 19 million in March to 32 million in April. That’s amazing. It’s also a 68% increase over one month. We’re talking big numbers here. The obvious implication is that Twitter is hot. If you are an artist and are not on Twitter, get on it now. And [...]
CD Sales Gap
CD sales are down 19.3% through May of this year when compared to CD sales last year. What that translates to in money is $270 million dollars. Gone. When other revenue streams are accounted for to pick up some of that slack, there is still $162 million of lost revenue. This really puts the problems [...]
Japanese Music Market Production
Overall music production in Japan has fallen 8% in the 1st Quarter of 2009 compared with the same period last year. This translates to an overall production of audio units of 54.8 million. International repertoire production in Japan was also down 18% to 10.88 million units. These numbers show a pretty drastic decrease in the [...]
Matt Thien in Africa – 10 Songs in 10 Days
A good friend and fellow Atlanta musician just announced this press release regarding a very cool trip he is taking to Africa: Atlanta Based Singer/Songwriter Heads to Africa to Write 10 Songs in 10 Days ATLANTA, GA — A newcomer to the Atlanta music scene, Matt Thien, announced today he will travel to Kenya, Africa [...]
Exclusive Aardvark Records Press Release
I just received this press release from Aardvark Records out of the UK and am posting it as is: Press Release/18 May 2009 Lights, camera…AardvarkAardvark Records music video licensing deal with the Independent Coffee Network (PENRYN, CORNWALL and LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 18 MAY 2009) Aardvark Records and World Wide Arts’ Independent Coffee Network have announced [...]
MXP4
I have often blogged about the price of music files. We are learning that when Apple raises prices of songs to $1.29, they sell drastically less songs. We also saw China do an experiment last year to see if people used to getting songs for free would pay just $0.06 for a song. These are [...]
Top Music Sites
.comScore just released numbers for the top music sites based on traffic. Here are the results: * AOL Music – 28,634,778* MySpace Music – 27,423,200* Yahoo Music – 20,578,092* MTV Networks Music – 18,543,442* ArtistDirect Network – 12,193,996* MSN Music – 7,352,016* Jango Music Network – 6,921,809* Universal Music Group – 6,240,440* Imeem – 6,162,165* [...]
Phone?
Dave Ulmer, senior director of Entertainment Products at Motorola, recently made this comment regarding phones: “Phones are not going to be phones two or three years down the road. It’s becoming that device you thought about while watching the Jetsons – this personal communicator that is always connected, always on, always talking and gathering information. [...]
British Artists Abroad
British artists in the USA are increasing their market share as a percentage of album sales. In 2008, British market share in the US increased to 10% of the total album sales market, from 8.5% in ’07. The increase was even greater in Canada, going from 12.5% to 15% from ’07 to ’08. The major [...]
Live Nation Income
Live Nation is continuing to show where the money is in the music industry. Live Nation just released 1st quarter earnings for 2009. Some of the highlights are: – per-head revenue up 10.5%- on-site, non-ticket revenue up 27%- money collected for future concerts – $696 million- north american operating margin up to 8.2% from 7.1% [...]
