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Awareness, or lack thereof. It’s traditionally been the biggest reason why people miss concerts from their favorite artists. Right in their own backyards. Which is the driving motivation behind heavily-funded startups like Songkick, and recently-launched concepts like Live Nation’s Facebook app, Concert Calendar. Because people tend to listen, like, and acquire music from their favorite […]

(1) YouTube Music Videos – Based on top-level, 2011 view data of 1 trillion views, as reported by YouTube. Accustream iMedia Research estimates that 38.4 percent of that traffic is music videos.   (2) Pandora – The company reported 8.2 billion hours of radio streaming during its fiscal 2011. Assuming 12, 5-minute songs in that […]