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Itunes passes Walmart in music sales, but with Walmart?s help
2008-04-09 03:52:00 A few days ago I was a little surprised to learn that I tunes had passed Walmart in gross music sales. It seems that Walmart is currently offering less downloadable product: The have stopped selling anythign with DRM: Over the last few months, the meme has taken hold that the big record labels had ...
By: Third Pipe
Apple Inc. is Now the #1 Music Retailer in the US
2008-04-06 00:12:00 Overtaking the previous #1 music retailer; Wal-Mart, Apple Inc. is now the top seller of music in America. The iTunes Store leads the pack with 19 percent, Wal-Mart (which includes the brick-and-mortar stores as well as its online properties) is second with 15 percent, and Best Buy is third with 13 percent. Amazon is a distant fourth ...
By: Touch Podium
iTunes Surpasses Wal-Mart in Music Sales
2008-04-05 01:24:00 Apple's iTunes surpassed Wal-Mart for the first time claiming the number one spot for music sales in the U.S. According to Ars Technica Apple currently has 19 percent of the overall music sales in the U.S.
Game sales overtake music sales in the UK
2008-03-03 16:48:00 UK’s Entertainment Retailers? Association (ERA) director general Kim Bayley reports: “Games have overtaken music massively this year [UK sales in 2007] ? music revenues are down on last year?s figures and game sales are huge in comparison now In unit terms music is still important, but in value terms a lot less so. Games prices ...
Record Digital Music Sales
2008-03-02 19:03:00 Lately I’ve been cleaning up, and I’ve been realizing that for CD’s that I rarely listen to, there’s not a good reason to keep them around. Apparently, others are doing the same as their purchasing patterns are switching from physical… more.. No Tags Bookmark It Hide Sites
iTunes now #2 in US music sales market
2008-02-27 15:18:00 Appletell – In all the excitement of yesterday?s news we almost forgot to report on a huge feat for Apple. According to a new study from the NPD Group, iTunes is the second largest music retailer in the US, right behind ... read more
Digital firms playing a new tune in music sales
2008-02-19 18:38:00 You might have 40,000 songs on your MP3 player, but in one sense they're all rather boring: They sound the same every time you play them.For all the changes in the music industry, today's artists usually enter a studio with a mind-set little changed from 50 years ago: They hope to produce a static song. A recording might end up in millions of MP3 players, but it always sounds the same. Now a start-up in Paris called Musinaut claims to have a fresh way of doing things with a format called MXP4. The format allows for a song to be recorded and played back in many different ways, and for extras such as notes, videos and lyrics to be included in the file, as well. Think of it as MP3 on steroids.
By: Gadgets Express
Digital Music Sales Grow, but at Slower Rate
2008-01-27 13:30:00 Slashdot It!As consumers lose interest in compact discs and balk at paying for the digital alternatives, the music industry is looking for new allies, including Internet service providers, lawmakers — even Chinese air guitarists.The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said Thursday that worldwide digital music sales rose to $2.9 billion last year, from $2.1 billion a year earlier. That was about 15 percent of overall sales, up from 11 percent a year earlier and less than 1 percent in 2003.But digital sales have yet to make up for the shortfall in sales of compact discs, and overall sales of recorded music fell about 10 percent last year, to $17.6 billion, the federation estimated. A recovery in the music industry remains at least a year away, the federation’s chief executive, John Kennedy, said.In the meantime, the recording industry is broadening its search for revenue. The trade group plans to step up a campaign to hold Internet providers responsible for stop...
By: Tech Talk
Digital Music Sales Climb 40%
2008-01-25 04:48:00 Digital Music Sales Climb 40%Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the International Feder...
Digital music sales up 40%!
2008-01-24 20:32:00 Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry's global trade body said Thursday...Read the full article here.Post your comments on whether you think this is good for the music industry or not.
By: Gadgets Express
Digital Music Sales Up Worldwide
2008-01-24 18:05:00 yahoo news: LONDON - Record companies’ revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry’s global trade body said Thursday. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or IFPI, said the ...
By: Thought-Blender
Digital music sales up 40 percent
2008-01-24 16:53:00 Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the music industry's global trade body said Thursday.
?Guitar Hero,? ?Rock Band? drive music sales
2008-01-20 21:04:00 In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based videogame "Rock Band," players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made available after the game's initial distribution.
Restrictions Lowered on Napster?s Music Sales
2008-01-07 14:45:00 Well if your similar to myself and hate paying for cd’s then you will be glad to hear that Napster are lowering the restrictions on its music site. as some may know Napster have been around for some time now, although they are a super site were you call get all the latest music they have ...
By: Product Reviews
Canadian Government says P2P increases Music Sales
2007-11-03 12:07:00 Finally some decent unbiased research that tells the music industry what's what.1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
Country Music Sales Down Twenty-Six Percent
2007-10-25 22:35:00 Industry Blog Coolfer reports that total album sales have been bleak this year, dropping 14% year-to-date over 2006. Country albums sales are down a whopping 26%. Former mullet-man Billy Ray Cyrus has been cast to star in an indie drama titled Flying By. He’ll play “a businessman who risks his marriage, family, and fortune to ...
Music sales widgets have potential
2007-09-03 08:15:00 Music sales widgets are online mp3 players that have an integrated option to also buy the track you are listening to. Personally I find the idea just brilliant. Selling and promoting your music with a music sales widget that can be placed on your webpage or a social networking site like MySpace. In most cases ...
Universal to test DRM-free music sales, snubs iTunes
2007-08-10 15:04:00 Universal to test DRM-free music sales, snubs iTunes Posted Aug 9th 2007 10:36PM by Ryan BlockFiled under: Portable Audio In both shocking (and, frankly, kind of unshocking) news, Universal Music Group (whom we all know as the largest music conglomerate in the world) announced its intent to test DRM-free music through Real's Rhapsody, Wal-Mart, Amazon, even Google -- but not through long time begrudging online retail partner / frenemy Apple's iTunes Plus DRM-free music store. Apparently the restriction free Universal tracks will start popping up on those other music distributors next January, during which time the company intends to closely monitor sales, increases in music piracy, etc. before going all-in; for the time being we've no idea which artists Universal intends to free up or just how much of its total catalogue will be distributed in this little toe-dip of theirs. But one thing we do know: between EMI and Universal, two of the top four music businesses in the world ha...
By: for bored mindz
Universal to test DRM-free music sales, snubs iTunes
2007-08-10 05:36:00 Filed under: Portable Audio In both shocking (and, frankly, kind of unshocking) news, Universal Music Group (whom we all know as the largest music conglomerate in the world) announced its intent to test DRM-free music through Real's Rhapsody, Wal-Mart, Amazon, even Google -- but not through long time begrudging online retail partner / frenemy Apple's iTunes Plus DRM-free music store. Apparently the restriction free Universal tracks will start popping up on those other music distributors next January, during which time the company intends to closely monitor sales, increases in music piracy, etc. before going all-in; for the time being we've no idea which artists Universal intends to free up or just how much of its total catalogue will be distributed in this little toe-dip of theirs. But one thing we do know: between EMI and Universal, two of the top four music businesses in the world have now announced or begun distributing music without DRM, and there's little we can find fault ...
EMI confirms good results in DRM-free music sales
2007-06-20 14:28:00 EMI’s recently-appointed senior vice president of digital Lauren Berkowitz has confirmed significant success with the company’s move to sell DRM-free tracks through iTunes. Speaking at a US music industry event, Berkowitz confirmed: “The initial results of DRM-free music are good.” EMI began selling its music in high-quality DRM-free format last month. It’s unrestricted catalogue is now available ...
Rap music sales decline
2007-05-11 09:40:00 Kansan: The hip-hop and rap industries are losing fans and sales. Sales dropped 20 percent nationwide from 2005 to 2006 and 70 percent in that time at one Lawrence store. Violence, demeaning lyrics give industry negative image
Music Sales are down, why?
2007-03-21 18:51:00 Why? Because most music out there just plain sucks. I'm sick of reading articles about music sales being down and the simple answer not even being approached. When you slam everyone out there with the same old thing repackaged and blended and refaced with a crappier knock-off wanna be band you are going to get a decline in sales. People are sick of this kind of crap being shoved down our throats. The simple fact is that with the onslaught of myspace and other resources to listen to music (legally, at least this last article didn't go on about how illegal downloads are the cause, which is clearly a bullshit answer; and onto this continuing tangent I don't download illegal music because I care about the bands I listen to and buy their CDs and go to their shows) whenever we want we only listen to the single and nothing else.This is due to the afore mentioned reason that most music sucks. Typically the single is the only decent (if that) song that is put out and it's so easily...
Major Record Labels to Offer Unrestricted Music Sales
2007-03-20 00:00:00 It's coming: As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a step they once vowed never to...
Digital Music Sales Doubled in 2006
2007-03-20 00:00:00 Before we know it, CDs will cease to exist: Global digital music sales almost doubled in 2006 to around $2 billion, or around 10 percent of all sales, but failed to compensate for an overall decline in sales of CDs,...
Major Record Labels to Offer Unrestricted Music Sales
2007-03-18 00:00:00 It's coming: As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a step they once vowed never to...
Digital Music Sales Doubled in 2006
2007-03-18 00:00:00 Before we know it, CDs will cease to exist: Global digital music sales almost doubled in 2006 to around $2 billion, or around 10 percent of all sales, but failed to compensate for an overall decline in sales of CDs,...
Music Sales Jump For Christmas
2007-01-12 17:34:01 Predictably, album sales rose substantially during the pre-Christmas week in the United States. Christmas landed on a Monday this year, opening a nice shopping weekend that aided CD sales. In the week leading up to Christmas, the Top 200 albums sold a combined 13.1 million copies, a 42% increase over the previous high mark of the year, 9.2 million in the week ending Dec. 17, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The brisk pace is expected to continue during the next weeks as consumers hit the year-end sales and cash in the gift cards they received for Christmas. However, total album sales of 105.3 million for the six-week period ended December 24 is still 4.1% down from 2005’s total of 109.8 million. And 2005 was considered the weakest holiday selling season in memory. But for the troubled music industry, flat sales are the new up for retailers. In fact, music label executives may cheer the volume of purchases: when digital track, music video and singles sales are included, sales t... |
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