The Christmas season begins this weekend, and the Christmas-music season along with it. Actually, as we have observed over the past few weeks, holiday music started in early November, on both the broadcast and pureplay sides of the fence. But… Continue Reading
In a press release this morning that serves as an advertisement for its holiday music stations, Pandora revealed some Christmas-season listening statistics.
We’ve been tracking the early rollout of Christmas music on terrestrial, subscription, and pureplay platforms, noting that there seems to be significant demand for holiday music in early November. Commenters in iHeartMusic’s Christmas stations jubilantly greeted their appearance a couple of weeks ago. Continue Reading
Last week we noted that many online music services are lagging behind some terrestrial stations in pre-Thanksgiving holiday programming, even though adding it doesn’t displace any non-holiday music — a choice that broadcast stations must gamble on. AccuRadio dives deeply… Continue Reading