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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 [...]
Brazilian Mobile Market
The digital music market in Brazil tops all other countries in Latin America. Revenues for 2008 doubled from the same period ’07. The breakdown is quite interesting as well. Digital sales are 10% of music sales in Brazil and of those sales, 80% are on mobile devices. Many of the songs are sold on pre-loaded [...]
95%
A full 95% of music consumed online is downloaded illegally with no compensation to the artist. 95%! This is according to a new report issued by the IFPI. The represents a number around 40 billion illegal downloads. The IFPI had this to say: “Generating value in an environment where 95 percent of music downloads are [...]
’08 Album Sales
The final sales numbers are in for 2008 and if you are in the business of selling albums, you are not a happy camper. Album sales (both physical & digital) were down a whopping 14% for the year ($428.4 Million (’08) vs. $500.5 Million (’07)). Physical albums were down 18.2% while digital albums were up [...]
Holiday Sales
Happy Holidays! Well, that’s the mood for digital music retailers. The week of December 22 – 28 had the most digital tracks ever sold for a one-week period. The total was 47.7 million tracks sold during the week. This was a 126% increase from the week before. Not bad. The number of digital downloads for [...]
Digital Sales
As iTunes alone nears the sale of 6 billion cumulative downloads over its history, numbers for this year show that over 1 billion digital tracks will be sold during 2008. This is up a full 28% over last year. A full 17% of the tracks were from sales of top-200 songs. I will continue to [...]
Digital EMI
EMI has launched a new platform in Beta on their main URL www.emi.com. Here one can peruse artist videos, biographies, songs, etc. This site has a iTunes look to it. A very simple and clean look. The site has a dual purpose. The obvious one is to be a hub for information and content for [...]
Musica Latina
Just in time for Christmas, a new Latin-music focused online digital store is set to launch in a few days. The site is MusicaLatina.com and it contains songs from all of the major labels as well as indie labels. Songs will go for the iTunes price of $0.99/song with some songs going as low as [...]
French Music Biz
The French music trade body, SNEP, just released year to date sales numbers for the French music industry. France is following the trend of all other countries, namely, cd sales are plummeting and digital sales, although increasing rapidly, are not covering the loses in album sales. Here are the actual numbers for the first 9 [...]
Radiohead Experiment
Radiohead experimented last year with a ‘name-your-price’ release of their album. Although the final revenues were not released, Radiohead just confirmed a movement of more than 3 million albums from their experiment. This includes formats such as downloads from various retailers and physical product sold online and through stores. Of these 3 million + copies [...]
