MusicWatch and Eventbrite teamed up for a survey of how music discovery impacts listeners’ purchases related to live music. The results showed that 42% of the respondents cited streaming as a music discovery platform, and 51% of those streaming listeners bought tickets to a show by an artist they found on those services. Plus 29% of streaming discoverers attend two or more shows a month. Continue Reading
IFPI Sweden released half-year data for the nation’s music industry. Streaming revenue increased 7.4% to 425.8 million kroner. That sector generates 83.9% of total sales, with all digital revenue accounting for 88% of Sweden’s music sales. Continue Reading
Most of the heavy analysis of music markets focuses on North America, Europe, and Asia. PricewaterhouseCoopers has given us new insights on the industry in Africa with a new entertainment and media outlook through 2017 for South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria. The report covers the radio and music sectors in those countries. Continue Reading
Webcast listening in May dropped a couple of percentage points from April’s numbers, according to Triton Digital’s Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker, released today. the may report broke a five-month string of consecutive gains. At the same time, mobile listening to streams topped 75%. Continue Reading
The Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship has released the results of a year-long study of the contemporary music industry, a whitepaper with recommendations for creating better rights tracking for music creators and owners. The whitepaper is a primer, a backgrounder, and an advocacy document. Continue Reading
Research company Niche has released its annual survey of media usage among high school graduates. The survey collected responses from 10,000 members of the 2015 graduating high school class. Spotify is the big music gainer, but Pandora still rules. Continue Reading
Research firm MusicWatch has released new data from its Annual Music Study, conducted in April. A professor at Monmouth University crunched the MusicWatch survey results to arrive at a snapshot of how college students are listening to music. Continue Reading
The British Phonographic Industry released half-year data about music sales in the UK. The report showed that there have been 11.5 billion tracks played in the first six months of 2015, compared with 14.8 billion plays in all of 2014. Dedicated audio streaming services see about 480 million streams a week. Stream Equivalent Album consumption for the first half was 11.49 million, up 79.5% from the year-ago period. Continue Reading
A newly released Nielsen Music U.S. Mid-Year Report delivers a dramatic message: On-demand music streaming nearly doubled over the first half of 2014. “The growth of streaming continues to accelerate,” says Nielsen. Continue Reading
Tatiana Simonian, a vice president at Nielsen, gave a presentation at the EDMbiz conference. During the talk, she shared two slides from the Nielsen Music 360 report with data about the industry. The Nielsen data asked its survey respondents who said they paid for streaming which services they spent on. The results showed a larger percentage of paying customers at Pandora One and Spotify, where 33% and 32%, respectively, currently subscribe to the service. Continue Reading
Kantar Media released its quarterly report on U.S. advertising expenditures. Overall, the total ad spend in the first quarter of 2015 was $37.4 million, down 4% from the same period last year. The quarterly results for radio revealed a split performance between the local and national levels. The declines in Kantar’s data parallel the ones found in the Radio Advertising Bureau’s research into revenue for 2014. Continue Reading
In a webcast presentation yesterday, Edison Research revealed all the podcast-related survey data from The Infinite Dial 2015. The result is a more comprehensive view of who is listening to podcasts, in what numbers, and the audience attributes. Continue Reading