Apple celebrates 'A Decade of iTunes' with year-by-year milestones. By Sam Oliver Apple on Wednesday rolled out a new feature on its iTunes Store to celebrate "A Decade of iTunes," offering customers a history lesson of the company's now-dominant digital download destination.
The new addition to the iTunes Store includes an interactive timeline that allows visitors to see how iTunes — as well as popular music — has evolved over the last ten years. The feature kicks off by recalling April 28, 2003, when the iTunes Music Store launched with 200,000 songs, and the third-generation iPod was unveiled. Back on its launch day, the top-selling song on iTunes was "Stuck in a Moment" by U2, while the most popular album was "Sea Change" by Beck. More than a million songs, priced at 99 cents apiece, were downloaded in the first week.
By clicking through on a year-by-year basis, customers can view the top selling iTunes album for each, and also view numerous individual milestones. This Sunday will mark 10 years to the date that the iTunes Store opened. The future of music, according to Spotify's Daniel Ek. AUSTIN, Texas--Daniel Ek was waving his arms in the air, as if molding invisible clay.
He swiped his right hand karate-chop style, made a big loop, and then grabbed an imaginary dial with his left and twisted his fist. Ek, you see, was talking about the future. In this not-so-far-off future, maybe a decade from now, we're all connected, everywhere, all the time -- perhaps via Google Glass , perhaps via sensors built into our clothes, or through other wearable computing devices. Our touch-screen life will require no touching whatsoever, as we control what we're listening to or seeing through hand motions or simply by talking. And we'll experience it all in 3D. "Actually, I don't want the string section," said Ek, grabbing the invisible song with his left hand.
Spotify Is Paying Something Like $400,000 per Day to Advertise on YouTube - Rebecca Greenfield. Spotify is giving ones of its competitors $400,000 per day to advertise on its homepage.
At least that's the going rate for a "homepage takeover" on YouTube—one of the Internet's most popular music destinations which is reportedly working on a streaming music service of its own. Google, Twitter, Amazon... pourquoi se lancent-ils tous dans le streaming ? - L'actu Médias / Net. Spotify - For Music. Justin Timberlake's Promotional Run-Up to 'The 20/20 Experience': A Timeline. They say hindsight is 20/20, but when it comes to Justin Timberlake's comeback, they're not taking any chances.
Next week's release of Timberlake's beyond-highly-anticipated new album The 20/20 Experience is riding on one of the most effective global marketing/promotion campaigns in pop-culture history. In the years since he put out his last album, 2006's FutureSex/LoveSounds, JT and co. had been subtly stoking intrigue about if and when the all-around entertainer would make his return to music, with Timberlake even going so far as to sing a song called "Not Gonna Sing Tonight" on "Saturday Night Live" in 2011. 4 Emerging Trends in Social Media & How They’ll Impact The Music Industry. With a rise in social TV, multi-channel engagement, and recent reports suggesting that there are more mobile phones than people in 4/6 of the World’s regions, this year will no doubt be an interesting one for social media, but how will these trends impact the music industry?
1. The Internet of Things (IoT) One of the most interesting emerging trends in social media (IMO) is what’s being termed as ‘The Internet of Things’, referring to the connection between physical products and the Internet. Companies and Consumers: Navigating through influencers and triggers – exclusive Nielsen white paper. Spotify’s social network arrives: New Follow tab is now gradually rolling out to users. After teasing a heavy dose of discovery and social features, Spotify is gradually rolling out its ‘Follow’ tab to users on the desktop.
We first revealed these upcoming features back in December, and now Spotify has informed us that its follow tab is already available to some, and will roll out in stages. For now, there’s still no sign of the discover tab — the other half of the company’s big announcement back in December. Shazam hits 300 million global users, celebrates with an overhaul of its iPad and Android tablet apps. Media engagement service Shazam today announced that it has surpassed 300 million users worldwide.
In addition, the company says that it will be releasing an updated iPad and Android tablet version in the coming weeks. The updates will include an updated user experience that includes a redesigned home screen, updated layout for tagged results from TV and music, and a new way to browse content your friends have tagged. With the update, Shazam CEO Andrew Fisher says that it will “optimize discovery, engagement, transactions, and exploration in a tablet environment. Google in talks with labels over streaming music service. When your market cap is north of $263 billion and the company's stock price is hovering around the $800 level, the prevailing question du jour becomes "well, why not?
" So it is that we learn, courtesy of the Financial Times, that Google has been talking with the major music labels about a possible streaming music service. The Times report said that "it is expected that the streaming service will offer a subscription model as well as free unlimited access to songs, supported by advertising, mirroring models adopted by Spotify and Deezer.
" Le nouveau partage de la galette (musicale) Will One Of These Music Apps & Services Be The Next Big Thing At SXSW? Every year, music and tech nerds alike descend on Austin, Texas, for South By Southwest, hoping to emerge from the fray the next big band, the next big app, the next big film — and, one would hope, not wholly ravaged by alcohol and sleeplessness.
The festival is still a little more than a month away, but SXSW is now out with a list of music/tech stars hoping to come out on top: The SXSW Music Accelerator 2013 Finalists. SXSW Accelerator is a competition five years running that pits innovative companies against each other for a chance to nab the tech spotlight — or, as SXSW put it: “The opportunity to receive exposure to the SXSW audience looking out for the latest in cutting-edge technology.” (Along with some tech-related goodies and other fripperies.) According to Mashable, “41% of the companies that have participated in the first two competitions received funding after the event,” which is ample enough reason to participate for many a bootstrapping company.
Au Midem, l'industrie de la musique vibre envers et contre tout. (3) Marché de la musique 2012 – déjeuner du Snep. Les ventes de musique physique, les CD sont en baisse, une baisse à deux chiffres.
Newsbeat - Universal Music's digital boss: CD definitely not dead. Interview by Greg Cochrane, words by Del Crookes and Anthony Baxter Newsbeat reporters 16 January 2013 Last updated at 06:34 Share. Première campagne de pub pour Deezer. Deezer, le site d’écoute de musique inaugure sa première campagne de communication en France. Le dispositif, orchestré par l’agence BEING (Groupe TBWA) comprend deux spots (15 et 30’’) qui seront diffusés en TV à compter du 20 janvier pendant 7 semaines, un déploiement sur mobiles (sites et applis) à partir du 29 janvier et de l’affichage dans le métro parisien.
Ce dernier repose sur 6 affiches différentes qui installent un univers résolument graphique concocté par Mcbess, artiste très impliqué dans l’illustration et la musique, la bande son du film étant signée Pop Levi. Next Big Sound's 2012 State of Online Music. Next Big Sound, a data analytics company that measures daily music consumption and purchase decisions around the globe and makes it all available in a single dashboard has compiled their 2012 State of Online Music report. Below is a blog post from Next Big Sound's data journalist Liv Buli, who outlned the report's key takeaways. To See the full report click here. The Internet and the social web continues to play a great importance to music in 2012.
Artists tracked and measured by Next Big Sound have added close to 100 billion new plays and over 5 billion new fans last year, underlining the fact that online activity must be taken into account when deciphering the music industry at large. Beats' Daisy Project Revealed, CEO Ian Rogers Declares 'Mission To Win' [Details & Analysis] Today Beats By Dre announced that Topspin's Ian Rogers is CEO of Beats' upcoming Project Daisy music streaming subscription service as well as MOG, the service on which Daisy will be built. Trent Reznor is Chief Creative Officer. In the conference call the big message seemed to be, "We're going to do this right, not like the other guys. We're going to take streaming subscription services to the mainstream and we're going to win. " Normally I would simply share the news from whatever sources are available and insert some commentary as relevant.
Beats By Dre announce new digital music service 'Daisy' Music News According to sources at Digital Music News, the Beats By Dre brand is expanding its business into the digital music service market. Beats Electronics CEOs Jimmy Iovine and Luke Wood, revealed the details in a press conference with Ian Rodgers, whom they hired from Topspin to head of ‘Daisy’, their new service. Competing in a market that already touts the popular Spotify and Pandora, among others, did not seem too daunting a task for the trio.
The plan is to allow for streaming of 12 million songs on a paid subscription basis. That information by itself is slightly underwhelming considering those options are already available through existing services. Why Are People Still Buying CDs? Amazon announced AutoRip on Thursday, a free service that gives consumers a cloud-based backup for every CD they've bought from the company since 1998. For Amazon, it's another move towards ensuring that consumers consider the company their primary stream of content, whatever the format. However, the introduction of the service raises another question: Why are people still buying CDs in 2013? After all, most music is available online in a format that's usually cheaper than CDs and doesn't take up shelf space.
Yet, the CD is still the predominant format for music buying. Consumers bought 193 million CDs in 2012 vs. 118 million digitally downloaded albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Sound quality. 5 raisons qui font que le streaming n'est pas (encore) l'avenir de la musique. Temps de lecture: 7 min. YouTube : mais où sont passés les 2 milliards de vues ? US album sales fell 4% in 2012 but streaming impact unknown. Nielsen SoundScan has published US music sales figures for 2012, and as ever there is debate around what they indicate about the impact of streaming services on traditional sales.
The bad news: overall album sales fell 4% from 331m units in 2011 to 316m units in 2012, for the usual reasons of digital growth not outstripping physical decline. CD sales dropped by 13% while digital album sales rose 14%, taking them to 37% of overall album sales. The 4% drop in overall album sales might be worrying, given the industry celebrations in January last year about a 1% rise in 2011. Then again, a 4% fall is still better than the annual declines seen in the years before 2011. A 5.1% rise in single-track digital sales to 1.34bn units can also be seen as a bright spot for the US in 2012, especially when considering the downloads/streaming cannibalisation debate.
The industry is used to looking at the year-end unit-sales figures and using them as THE measure of how music is doing. Twitter Lets Users Add Music To Their Profiles. While Twitter users may not be able to share Instagram photos anymore, SoundTracking lets them integrate visual and audito media directly into their tweets. With SoundTracking, select a song to tweet, and a picture of the band will display as the song plays. No, The Major Labels Didn't Fake 2 Billion YouTube Views. The record labels have a long history of knowing how to manipulate key numbers to their advantage. British music fans streamed 3.7bn songs in 2012 says BPI.
Hot off the press this morning are figures from British music industry body the BPI for 2012, with digital album sales rising 14.8% to 30.5m for the year, although that still didn’t quite balance out the 19.5% drop in CD sales to 69.4m. That means an overall 11.2% fall in UK album sales to 100.5m for the year. Soundtracking Fans Can Share AND Play Music In Twitter. The Gardian connait la musique. Streaming holdouts Rihanna and Coldplay top Spotify 2012 charts. The Guardian's live music map: add your gig photos and Twitter reviews. Spotify confirms beta launch of browser-based music app, currently only available to a “small number of users” 15 November '12, 04:18pm Follow As is often the case with Spotify, if users complain and request a feature enough, it eventually comes. Earlier in the year, that was the case for the music streaming company’s iPad app and now The Verge is reporting that it will launch a browser-based player for the service. The Next Web contacted Spotify, which confirmed that it was testing such an app, but it is currently only available to a small number of users: We can confirm we’ve launched a beta version of a Spotify web player that we’re testing with a small number of users.
According to The Verge, the web player operates similarly to the Mac and Windows clients, but will include a “basic feature set.” Shazam 'will drive more than $300m in music sales this year' The Shazam app is about more than just identifying music nowadays – it can tag TV shows and adverts – but that hasn’t lessened its impact on the music industry, as people buy the songs they identify. Skrillex Is One Of The Most Popular Musicians On Earth And Has Never Put Out An LP. Deezer déploie la musique sur le « cloud »
New Interscope Site Design Is A Win That Reminds Us Of Major Labels' Fail. L'Observatoire Influencia - Le Roi téléchargement est mort, vive le Roi streaming ! Xbox Music Compared With iTunes, Spotify and the Rest [CHART] Xbox Music vs Spotify vs iTunes Match vs Google Music. La musique à la radio, bonjour business ? - Radio. Buzz "Gangnam Style" : les 6 ingrédients de la recette du succès. Je Like - 2601 personnes pour le plus grand clip participatif au monde ! Fuzz, a new social music site from Blip.fm’s founders, will keep you listening for hours. Music Labels Using Pinterest: Overview - Social Media Apps for Brands + Music + Entertainment. Deezer vs Spotify : qui propose la meilleure qualité ? MS MR's Releases EP On Tumblr. Let's Fans Listen, Watch, Remix & Reblog.
75+ Music Industry Tech Tools for Artists, Bands, Managers and Execs. Apple To Shut Down Ping Social Network September 30 - Peter Kafka - Media. Mike Masnick: A Totally Positive Look at the State of the Industry ...
Why Apple would want to move into music streaming — Apple News, Tips and Reviews. Who is the most pirated artist near you? Le monde entier parle musique : les chiffres, stats… on vous dit tout. Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version. Pourquoi Spotify pourrait lancer une version web de son service ? Would You Like Tunes With That? McDonald's' Future in the Music Business. Why Apple would want to move into music streaming — Apple News, Tips and Reviews. Apple's 'iPhone 5': will music streaming be the surprise extra? Business Matters: Why More Artists Will Follow Lady Gaga Into Premium Apps.
Steve Stoute On Uniting Budweiser & Jay-Z For Made In America: 'Brands Are Becoming Much Closer To The Content' WSJ: Apple developing new music streaming service that may rival Pandora and Spotify.