As part of our year-end special, we asked you, the audience three specific questions about 2012 — and we got dozens of thoughtful, intelligent, well-considered responses. In the last of three questions we asked the industry “What will the most important/influential issue facing the music industry be in 2013?” To which we got a huge […]
Bruno Mars stays at #1 with a 13% bump over the previous week, but Rihanna slips two slots to #4, overtaken by Taylor Swift(+29%) and (we can’t believe we’re typing this) The Lumineers, continuing their improbable upward climb. Ho Ho “Ho Hey” indeed. Otherwise, the Top 10 went through the typical reshuffling, the lone newcomers soon-to-be Voice winnerCassadee Pope with in-show her performance […]
Psy’s “Gangnam Style” has already become YouTube’s most watched video, but this morning the smash hit hit one billion views, making it the first video on the Internet to reach the marker, according to Billboard. The K-Pop smash hit has tallied up 6.5 million views a day, far surpassing the 813 million views Justin Bieber’s “Baby” has accumulated. […]
Who made the biggest, most disruptive impact on the music industry in 2012? Here are ten to consider… (1) Jeff Price, former CEO, Tunecore. Balls, he’s got ‘em. Fights, he picks ‘em. Results, he sometimes gets ‘em. And in an industry mired in hugely complicated and logjammed issues with endless doubletalk, that’s pretty good. There were […]
Anyone who thinks investment in music is ‘drying up’ clearly hasn’t looked at the numbers. Because with less than two weeks left in 2012, investment in music-related startups and companies has reached $619.3 million, a near-34 percent gain over 2011. [AlLindstrom]
Apple’s (AAPL) most recent smartphone launch was its biggest ever by a wide margin. The company sold more than 5 million iPhone 5 handsets during its first three days of availability, and iPhone sales across all models in the iPhone 5′s debut quarter totalled 27 million units. Apple’s latest iPhone isn’t just a big deal to Apple fans, however — according […]
