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Russia Music Industry Decline

Numbers for the Russian Music Industry were recently released.  For the most part, they are going down quite fast.  CD sales were down 20% from the year before.  Radio was down in dollar terms 20-25%.  The one upside was live concert revenue.  This seems to be a trend all around.  Product sales that can be [...]

Listening Habits

So if music is completely free, how will people listen? Will they just download their favorite songs or the ones they hear on terrestrial radio? Will they download individual songs or complete albums? A recent story out of Denmark provides some interesting answers to some of these questions. For instance, TDC, a provider of landline [...]

Kid Rock & Rhapsody

I recently blogged about Kid Rock’s take on digital downloading. He’s taking a different route with his latest album, ‘Rock N Roll Jesus.’ Namely, he is not selling on iTunes, but his album is selling well elsewhere. So on Friday, Kid Rock made an announcement that he would be selling his album in full on [...]

Album vs. Tracks

There is a great article in the NY Times today about Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Most of the article deals with Trent himself, and the fact that he is really on the cutting edge of musical distribution. One interesting thing about the article was Reznor discussing the iPod. On one hand, he thinks [...]