online music sales
The Importance Of Analytics For The Fifth Beatle
While hardly the most inspiring topic for musicians, web monitoring and analytics are becoming increasingly important for bands hoping to succeed online in the new music industry. If you’re not able to optimise your own campaigns, it’s well worth finding someone who can…
Warner Music Decide Their Future In Free Streaming Services
With Warner Music Group’s CEO Edgar Bronfman’s comments this week about how free streaming music services are “clearly not positive for the industry”, and his stating that in the future Warner will not be embracing such deals, how does this affect WMG’s place in the future music market?
Traditional vs. Digital: Artist Management in 2010
As an observer, something like the yearly MIDEM conference in Cannes is a great way to catch an insight into the current views of those inside the music industry about what is happening right now, and how they see things changing in the future. It is often supported by fantastic panels with often conflicting views. [...]
Meet the Industry twins: 'Record' & 'Music'
Okay, so you can’t turn anywhere online at the moment when looking at the music industry without tripping over coverage and opinion on yesterday’s IFPI Digital Music Report 2010 (I notice the irony in mentioning this as I introduce you to an article of me giving coverage and opinion to the very same topic). While [...]
"Deluxe Packages & The Independent Artist": Multi-tier Releases for the Indie Musician
With the success of multi-level priced releases by artists such as Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails showing that true fans are willing to not only spend money on what is also being offered for free, but that in many cases they are willing to spend far greater amounts of money on extra materials than has [...]
"Name Your Price": The Perfect Artist/Audience Transaction?
With phrases such as “monetise”, “advertising revenue” and “new business models” being batted around left, right and centre as they have been for a while, it is easy to come to the conclusion that all is virtually lost when it comes to people paying for recorded music. While business shifts for the major labels, independent [...]
Apple's Future In A Streaming World
The pace of change in the music industry is faster than it’s ever been – as with many technological advancements, by the time you are aware of, or used to, a new work practice or development, it is already on it’s way out, or is being surpassed by new emerging ones.
The music industry will have [...]
Spotify & 7Digital Announce Download Deal
It seems that someone has been reading my recent posts, as today Spotify have announced a deal with 7Digital to include buy links for users to purchase and download tracks they have heard through the service.
Stream Upselling, Not Selling Upstream…
With the potential shown by current internet darling, Spotify, there lacks a previous revenue potential for labels, and arguably for streaming services. While the key word of advertising hopes to compensate somewhat for lost music sales, whether they be digital or physical, new style streaming services do not allow for middle ground between new solely [...]
Torrents, P2P & Other Scapegoats
With the Pirate Bay trial drawing to a conclusion, much has been spoken regarding the role file sharing networks have played in the decline of record sales, but there are a number of elements that have all impacted on the industry and must be taken into account.
