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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% [...]
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 [...]
’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 [...]
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 [...]
Show me the Money
At a time when the economy is tanking, most radio stocks are under $1, and record companies’ revenues are declining rapidly, it is quite newsworthy when some company related to the music industry shows strong financial gains. Enter – Live Nation. So far, it appears that Live Nation has hit upon a business plan that [...]
Music Biz Sales #’s
Sony BMG just released sales numbers for the quarter that ended on Sept. 30th. They aren’t good. Sony lost $57 million on sales of $762 million. Losses a year ago during the same period were $8 million on $851 million in sales. Sony corp blamed the losses on “the continued decline in the worldwide physical [...]
EMI’s Decrescendo
EMI, one of the big 4 record labels, continues to struggle. Last year, they controlled 10% of the recorded music market, and that is now down to 9.5% this year. They also just released numbers showing a loss of US$1.2 Billion for year ending March 31. At least they were blunt about the cause – [...]
Apple & Microsoft Sales
Both Apple & Microsoft released some sales numbers recently that show some shifts occurring in the music & technology industries. First is Apple’s robust sales of 6.9 million iPhone units in the first quarter of the product’s availability. That is more units sold than the first generation iPhone, and that is just in the first [...]
