YouTube Music: It’s Bigger Than Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody, & Grooveshark Combined
(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 […]
How to Begin a Career in the Music Industry. Advice to the Graduating Class of 2012
Full story below courtesy of [Music Think Tank] So the big day is fast approaching. You are leaving the ivory tower of college in a few weeks and are about to enter the work force. Most likely the only thought on your mind is how to get a job.
Nearly 1 In 1,000 Americans Is a Working Musician
Full story below courtesy of [Digital Music News] That’s according to statistics compiled by the US Department of Labor, which counted 269,400 working musicians in 2010. That, overlayed with the US Census population figure of 308,745,538, means that 1 in 1,146 American adults is thriving, surviving, or scraping by as an instrumentalist, singer, director, composer, […]