A new Web site encouraging consumers to report instances of music piracy has just been launched by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. The site www.reportmusicpiracy.co.nz allows users to lodge a complaint with RIANZ about illegal musical activities, either by an email link or through a dedicated Music Piracy Phone Line. In addition, there [...]
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How the Music Industry Is About To Change
Posted by @altair02 on January 13th, 2010
By Jerry Del Colliano (Inside Music Media) The bad news is in — as it has been almost every year since 2000. Album sales in the U.S. are down year to year 13% and that includes digital revenue according to Nielsen SoundScan. That’s a decline for eight of the last nine years for record sales. [...]
“Can Music Be Free?”- A Q&A with Robin Kent
Posted by @altair02 on December 2nd, 2009
Previously chairman and CEO of advertising giant Universal McCann, then CEO of Spiralfrog, now founder of Rebel Digital, Robin Kent understands the economics of ad-supported media from both sides of the desk. We talked to him for a feature in the latest Music Ally Report, which subscribers can read here – while non-subscribers can sign [...]
Behind the music: Will singles save the music industry?
Posted by @altair02 on November 2nd, 2009
This year will be the biggest ever for the single in the UK. Last week, the Official Charts Company published figures that showed sales have already surpassed the record of 115.1m singles sold last year by almost 2m, and we haven’t even entered the Christmas run-up. So, has the music industry finally turned a corner [...]
Music fans still prefer CDs to downloads
Posted by @altair02 on July 18th, 2009
The company Leading Question has revealed that most UK music fans are still happier buying a CD than downloading, The 1,000 strong face to face survey of UK music fans showed that nearly three quarters (73%) of music fans were still happier buying CDs rather than downloading. The dominance of the CD was still high [...]
Are downloads really killing the music industry?
Posted by @altair02 on June 10th, 2009
original by Charles Arthur The music industry does like to insist that filesharing – aka illegal downloading – is killing the industry: that every one of the millions of music files downloaded each day counts as a “lost” sale, which if only it could somehow have been prevented would put stunning amounts of money into [...]
