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Japanese Digital Music Sales
According to the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), the digital music sales trend in Japan shows Internet downloads of music rising while mobile downloads are staying steady when comparing 2008 & 2009. Japan is known for their extremely high rates of mobile downloads. In fact, in 2008, 91% of music downloads were on mobile [...]
Free File Sharers = $$$
Interesting article here stating that those horrible file sharers actually spend 75% more on paid downloads than those who don’t illegally download music: “Those who share files are simply more interested in music. They use file sharing as a discovery mechanism. We have a generation of young people who don’t have any concept of music [...]
Digital vs Physical Album Sales
This stat continues to baffle me – 65% of music sales are still a physical cd format! At least according to the sales numbers for the first half of 2009. Digital download sales account for the other 35%. The prediction is that digital sales will overtake physical sales by 2010 as cd sales fall 15-20% [...]
Digital Music Percentages
A disconnect exists between the % of digital music consumed and the % of Record Label sales derived from those digital sales. EMI’s CEO, Elio Leoni-Sceti, recently stated that “seventy percent of music consumption is digital and yet only about twenty percent of music company revenues are derived from digital.” It is likely that 80% [...]
TuneCore & Universal Music Partnership
TuneCore and Universal Music just signed a distribution partnership that will allow upcoming artists a chance to receive services from a major record label. TuneCore is a company that distributes an artist or band’s digital songs to a number of retail outlets (ex. iTunes). TuneCore charges a fee per song, but the artist receives 100% [...]
Album Sales
Nielsen just issued their NARM report highlighting trends in album sales. Here are some of the main findings: By the end of 2010, 50% of music unit purchases will be in the digital format. Physical albums still generate more revenue than digital sales, so digital increases will not make up for physical declines until 2011 [...]
For the People
A very communist-sounding new site has just been launched that combines the power of social networking with an extensive paid music collection. The People’s Music Store has just signed a deal with Universal Music that will license more than 300,000 songs, bringing the total to the site The idea behind the site is that the [...]
First Quarter Music Sales
The news isn’t good. No one is expecting album sales to all of a sudden skyrocket, but these year over year declines are substantial. Look at this: Album sales in the USA for March ’09 were down 17.9% compared to the same month in ’08. Album sales in the USA for March ’09 were down [...]
Selling the Beatles Catalog
Word is that Apple Corps Ltd., the multi-media company set up by The Beatles (not to be confused with Apple, Inc), is considering selling the Beatles catalog on their own website. The Beatles have been noticeably absent from iTunes by not licensing their catalog to the mega online store. It’s not like the Beatles need [...]
Beatles: The Video Game
You know a major shift has occurred when the Beatles, yes, the Beatles, release their songs digitally to a video game but still don’t have their songs on iTunes. It was just announced that the Beatles will release part of their digital catalog to be included in the “Rock Band” video game. The announcement noted [...]
