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This Is What the Music Industry Looked Like When Napster First Arrived

December 2, 2011

Here's a snapshot of what the music industry looked like when Napster first arrived in June of 1999. > CDs accounted for 89.4 percent of overall recorded music sales, according to the RIAA. Cassettes sti... Read More...

What SOPA Debate? The Department of Justice Just Seized 130 Domains

Paul Resnikoff

November 26, 2011

But wait: doesn't SOPA have to be voted into law before site seizures can take place? Isn't that the whole point of the hearings and debates? Apparently not: over Thanksgiving, the Department of Justice (DOJ... Read More...

Ladies & Gentlemen, Pandora Is Now Profitable

Paul Resnikoff

November 22, 2011

Wall Street remains mostly unimpressed, but by music industry standards, this is a moment. On Tuesday, Pandora revealed something remarkable: profitability, at least for a fleeting three months. During its la... Read More...

Snubbing Spotify, King Crimson Makes 13-Album Discography Available First on Apple Music

But Wait! Grooveshark Has a Huge New Backer: Mercedes-Benz

Paul Resnikoff

November 19, 2011

Grooveshark's legal problems just went to 11, and you can thank King Crimson for cranking the volume. The 'long story short' is that Universal Music Group now has fresh accusations and evidence in its long-r... Read More...

BigChampagne: Album Sales Are Actually Down In 2011…

Paul Resnikoff

November 14, 2011

Sure, album unit sales are up this year, but the only reason that's happening is because prices are down. It's simple economics, and now, someone had the balls to say it out loud. "The lower pricing strategy ... Read More...

Study: FM Radio Is Still the Biggest Source for Music Discovery

Paul Resnikoff

November 13, 2011

One of the oldest platforms is still the biggest vehicle for new music discovery, even among more dedicated music fans. In a just-released joint study from NPD Group and NARM, FM (and AM) radio consistently ... Read More...

For Every Concert Link Shared on Facebook, at Least $2 In Ticketing Revenue Is Generated

Paul Resnikoff

November 9, 2011

Live Nation suffered another attendance decline last quarter, and that was compared to 2010 - their worst year ever! But can Facebook come to the rescue? Maybe: according to a tranche of music-related stats ... Read More...

It Gets Crazier: 67.5% Of Coldplay’s US Album Sales Are Digital

Paul Resnikoff

November 3, 2011

Coldplay has already pulled impressive, first-week album sales stats. But now, it looks like a monstrously large percentage of those sales were in the form of digital albums, particularly in the US. We just... Read More...

Game Changing? Check Out Tunecore’s New Publishing Administration Service

Paul Resnikoff

November 2, 2011

You could say that songwriters can't find their royalties. But many have no idea where to look! There are multiple PROs in the US, overlapping societies all over Europe, for starters. It's immensely complic... Read More...

Then, This: Coldplay Just Sold 447,000 Albums In the US

Paul Resnikoff

November 2, 2011

There's now more data to support Coldplay's anti-Spotify strategy. According to first-week, US-specific stats just published by Nielsen Soundscan, Coldplay shifted a cool 447,000 units of Mylo Xyloto during ... Read More...

40% of Coldplay’s Early Album Sales Are Coming from Downloads

Paul Resnikoff

October 28, 2011

Perhaps there's a method to Coldplay's madness, after all. According to early, three-day sales figures from the UK-based Official Charts Company (OCC), a healthy 40 percent of purchases of Coldplay's Mylo Xy... Read More...

It Took Tunecore’s CEO Three Full Months to Figure Out What Subscription Services Pay Artists

Paul Resnikoff

October 25, 2011

But why is this so insanely complicated? Tunecore CEO Jeff Price is an expert in online artist compensation whose business revolves around the very subject. Yet the guy who brought you simple iTunes distribu... Read More...

SRR Capital Launches With a VC-Style Approach to Music Investing

What Is Attribution?

So Busy With "The Quiet Time..."

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. YouTube Changed the Rules.

Indonesia: One of the World’s Most Promising Digital Music Markets

What Politicians Could Learn from the Music Business: A Midterm Election Primer

This Is What the Music Industry Looked Like When Napster First Arrived

What SOPA Debate? The Department of Justice Just Seized 130 Domains

Ladies & Gentlemen, Pandora Is Now Profitable

But Wait! Grooveshark Has a Huge New Backer: Mercedes-Benz

BigChampagne: Album Sales Are Actually Down In 2011…

Study: FM Radio Is Still the Biggest Source for Music Discovery

It Gets Crazier: 67.5% Of Coldplay’s US Album Sales Are Digital

Game Changing? Check Out Tunecore’s New Publishing Administration Service

Then, This: Coldplay Just Sold 447,000 Albums In the US

40% of Coldplay’s Early Album Sales Are Coming from Downloads

It Took Tunecore’s CEO Three Full Months to Figure Out What Subscription Services Pay Artists

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