The Nielsen Company Soundscan report for 2008 shows some interesting statistics. Legitimate digital sales continue to climb with some truly astonishing numbers. • Music purchases (transactions) in 2008 reached 1.5 Billion, marking the fourth consecutive year music sales have exceeded 1 billion; 1.4 billion (2007) vs. 1.2 billion (2006) vs. 1 billion (2005). • Overall […]
Can’t Get No Satisfaction
January 12, 2009 By 3 Comments
Wall Street Journal quotes Kusek and Leonhard: The music industry played one sour note after another as digital technology undermined its traditional business models. But after suing some 35,000 music fans for illegally downloading songs, music honchos decided not to sue the more than seven million others. Instead, the industry has concluded that if it […]
Cycles in Music – Video
November 12, 2008 By 6 Comments
From the Business Innovation Factory Summit, my presentation on the Past, Present and Future of Music. http://e.blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv/rss/flash/1445348&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf&feedurl=http%3A//bif.blip.tv/rss/flash&brandname=BIF&brandlink=http%3A//www.businessinnovationfactory.com&enablejs=true&tabType2=none&tabType1=details&tabTitle1=About&tabType3=none&backcolor=0xffffff&frontcolor=0×999999&lightcolor=0xcccccc&showguidebutton=false&autostart=false&showmorebutton=false Here is the story they wrote about me for the Summit. Back in the seventies, David Kusek walked from his freshman dorm at the University of Connecticut, down a long hill to the music department for classes several […]
Survey of British Youth
June 18, 2008 By 8 Comments
British Music Rights survey on music consumption of people aged 14-24. The average age of respondents was 22. This is the largest UK academic survey of its kind. * 14-24 year olds love music – arguably more than any previous generation. Well I am not quite sure about this one, but lets move on. * […]
Snapshot of Listening / Buying Habits
April 20, 2008 By 5 Comments
If you look at how people are getting their music these days you see that the companies fighting for the people who pay for music are battling over an ever-smaller piece of the pie. NPD Market Research’s annual survey of Internet users, which is some 80 percent of the population these days, found that 10 […]
Download this Song
February 12, 2008 By 2 Comments
