Browsing all posts in mobile music sales.
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 [...]
China Mobile
Last Friday, I blogged about the fact that 1 billion digital tracks had been purchased online in the USA for 2008. China has already caught up to that, and just on mobile phones. China Mobile, China’s biggest mobile phone carrier, just released numbers for Jan – Nov of 2008 and there have been an astonishing [...]
Scandinavian Mobile Downloads
TeliaSonera, a Swedish telecom company, has launched a service called Telia Musik, which is a set-price all-you-can-download service for mobile subscribers. Users will be able to download songs to their mobile devices from a catalog of more than 3 million songs from all of the major labels save Sony. Some of the Indie labels are [...]
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group just released 4th quarter & full year sales results (sept ’07 to sept ’08). Here are the highlights: Digital revenue grew 0.6% to $167 million from 3rd quarter ’08 However, digital revenue grew 28% when compared to 4th quarter ’07 Full year digital revenue grew to $639 million (39% increase) Digital revenue [...]
Mobile Musicians
A company called Thumbplay just released new technology for artists to upload content through mobile devices. Artists can go in and create an account, upload their digital music and graphics, and then make widgets specifically designed for different mobile devices. Another great benefit is that artists get a share of the revenue from song & [...]
China Mobile
The current population of the United States is 304,994,114. That should put things into perspective to say that China Mobile, the largest wireless provider in China, has 421,700,000 subscribers. That is 6% of the world’s total population! Of these 421 million + Chinese mobile subscribers, 80 million + have subscribed to the M. Music Wireless [...]
Japanese 1Q Music Sales
I am interested in following mobile & pc-based digital music sales in Japan. The market is so extraordinary in that mobile sales make up a larger % of sales than digital sales. Here are some other interesting facts from the first quarter of this year: – an over rise of 6% in digital sales to [...]
Ke-Tai (Mobile in Japanese)
Japan clearly beats every other country when it comes to new and sexy mobile devices. Not only are their phones better designed, the technology is years ahead of most other countries. So as users begin to consume and purchase more of their music on mobile devices, music industry professionals would be wise to visit the [...]
