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Big Hit Reportedly Working on New Music Streaming Service

BTS’ Latest Album Receives 3.4 Million Pre-Orders in Just 7 Days

January 16, 2020

Photo of BTS Big Hit Entertainment has announced that the upcoming album by K-Pop sensations BTS has sold more than 3.4 million copies in just seven days, based on data from the album's distributor, Dreamus C... Read More...

U.S. Patent Office Approves Microsoft's Next Gen AirPods Killer Dubbed the Surface Pen

Apple Makes More Money From AirPods Than Spotify Makes From Its Entire Business

Colin Cohen

January 9, 2020

A new report from analyst Kevin Rooke is indicating that Apple's revenue from AirPods exceeds that of Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify combined. In his report, Rooke presented the following graph to s... Read More...

German Music Industry Breaks the 100 Billion Stream Barrier

Colin Cohen

January 8, 2020

In the wake of a report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) that there were more than 100 billion music streams in the United Kingdom, GfK Entertainment and the German Music Industry Association (BVM... Read More...

Britain’s Music Streaming Market Tops £1 Billion for the First Time Ever

Colin Cohen

January 3, 2020

Echoing a report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) says that sales from music streaming last year exceeded £1 billion ($1.3 billion) in the United Kin... Read More...

How to Game the Billboard Charts (And Why You Shouldn’t) — Our Latest Podcast

Paul Resnikoff

January 2, 2020

Reggie Gooden of 818 Talent in Digital Music News' podcast studio in Santa Monica. What does it really take to get to the top of the Billboard charts? What? You’re not subscribed to the Digital Music News P... Read More...

Streaming Accounted for 80% of US-Based Recording Revenues in 2019, Up from 7% in 2010

Colin Cohen

January 2, 2020

In an announcement that mirrored a similar report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said that music streaming accounted for 80% of the U.S. rec... Read More...

For the First Time Ever, Music Streams Cross 100 Billion Annually in the U.K.

Colin Cohen

January 2, 2020

Image courtesy of BPI According to a new report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), there were more than 100 billion music streams in the United Kingdom during 2019, which breaks a record. The orga... Read More...

Record Store Day Smashes Its Own One-Day Record - Nearly 750,000 LPs Sold

Vinyl Record Sales Surpass 1.24MM Units During Christmas Week in the U.S.

Colin Cohen

December 31, 2019

Billboard is reporting that vinyl record sales in the United States during Christmas week exceeded 1.24 million units, making it the biggest week for such sales since Nielsen Music began tracking them back in... Read More...

2019 Was the Year of the Wireless Headphone — Sales May Top 350 Million

Colin Cohen

December 31, 2019

According to a research report from Canalys, 2019 has been a banner year for the wireless headphone market. Sales in the third quarter reached 96.7 million, which represents a growth of 53% over the same peri... Read More...

What Headphone Jack? AirPods Sales Topped $6 Billion This Year

Ashley King

December 23, 2019

Photo Credit: Unsplash Apple AirPods sales nearly doubled this year as they crossed the $6 billion threshold. Analysts believe the wireless earbuds could sell even more next year. Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst... Read More...

Billboard Changes Its Mind: YouTube Will Now Factor Into the Billboard 200

Colin Cohen

December 13, 2019

Breaking a policy that has been in effect since 2017, Billboard will now incorporate audio and video data coming from YouTube in its computation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. While Billboard has not inc... Read More...

As UMG Sale Talks Slow, Liberty Media, Apple, KKR, and Tencent Emerge as Frontrunners

UMG Releases Analytical Tool for Artists

Colin Cohen

November 21, 2019

UMG logo Universal Music Group (UMG) has just released a new app for its artists that will provide them and their management teams both analytics from the leading music streaming services as well as insights ... Read More...

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BTS’ Latest Album Receives 3.4 Million Pre-Orders in Just 7 Days

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German Music Industry Breaks the 100 Billion Stream Barrier

Britain’s Music Streaming Market Tops £1 Billion for the First Time Ever

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Streaming Accounted for 80% of US-Based Recording Revenues in 2019, Up from 7% in 2010

For the First Time Ever, Music Streams Cross 100 Billion Annually in the U.K.

Vinyl Record Sales Surpass 1.24MM Units During Christmas Week in the U.S.

2019 Was the Year of the Wireless Headphone — Sales May Top 350 Million

What Headphone Jack? AirPods Sales Topped $6 Billion This Year

Billboard Changes Its Mind: YouTube Will Now Factor Into the Billboard 200

UMG Releases Analytical Tool for Artists