Nielsen’s latest data is a Live Event 360 report, which analyzes fan behavior around concerts. People who attended at least one concert or festival in the past year spent 60% of their average annual music budget on attending those performances. Although the Nielsen report is focused on finding brand and marketing opportunities around live shows, there’s also an intriguing perspective for digital music platforms. Continue Reading
Shazam and Songkick are combining their services. The audio identification app will integrate concert listings from Songkick starting in 2017. Concert data and information for hundreds of thousands of upcoming live shows will appear in the app. Continue Reading
Pandora has occasionally dabbled in video to complement its core audio feature. The latest project is a live-stream of a performance by Metallica. The band will be performing in Minneapolis on Aug. 20. The show is the inaugural rock performance for the city’s new U.S. Bank Stadium. Continue Reading
Pandora has started leveraging its purchase of Ticketfly, adding concert notifications to its online music platform. The notifications are based on individual listening preferences pulled from Pandora’s Music Genome Project. Continue Reading
Much research into consumer spending on music shows live concerts as the top recipient of dollars. For instance, Nielsen’s 2015 year-in-review showed that more than half of the money spent on music by an average U.S. adult went toward some form of live performance. A new infographic from Moneytips breaks down more detail about concert spending habits. Continue Reading
Apple Music and Drake have been very cozy of late. Now, Apple Music is a sponsor for Drake’s upcoming Summer Sixteen tour with fellow rapper Future. Continue Reading
BandPage has embarked on a tighter integration with Rhapsody that focuses on promoting live shows. Through this partnership, Rhapsody will begin offering its listeners push notifications about upcoming concerts from their preferred artists. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: A new schedule for Serial; in-depth with WNYC’s plans for podcasting; tour revenue analysis for One Direction. Continue Reading
The wave of live music integrations into streaming continues, with a new feature emerging from Spotify. The company has added a Concerts feature that displays personalized show recommendations based on artists a person has listened to and their location. Continue Reading
Live music specialist nugs.net announced the debut of a streaming service. Nugs.net’s original platform was a download store focused on concert recordings. Now the streaming subscription opens up nugs.net’s thousands of concert recordings to on-demand listening. Continue Reading
Streaming music has been making slow inroads into integrating with the live music industry. The latest development is Magnifi, a revamped and rebranded version of Deli Radio. Continue Reading
The annual Web Summit in Dublin usually yields some interesting insights for the digital and streaming music industries. This year’s event has been no exception, and several sessions have useful information. Continue Reading