Last.fm Gains A Million New Listeners In A Week On Xbox
Last week Microsoft began offering updates to the popular Xbox Live gaming system that included, among other things, Last.fm connectivity. That integration has gained CBS owned Last.fm one million new subscribers in one week. It’s the biggest gain in listeners yet for the social music service. The new listeners have already listened to 120 million [...]
Imeem Sells To MySpace For A Song
News Corp owned MySpace will purchase independent online music service Imeem, in a deal which is reported to be $1million in cash. Imeem has been in financial trouble for a while, and has run through an estimated $30million in investor dollars. Among the investors, all four major record labels, although earlier this year Warner Music [...]
Digital Song Sales Concentrated on Hits
Music sales have been changed by the Internet. That’s perhaps the most obvious statement I’ve ever written on Audio4cast. Nonetheless, it’s interesting to look at how the Internet has impacted music sales, and a post on Nielsen’s blog recently did just that, discussing a recent article in Billboard magazine. Individual tracks accounted for 57% of [...]
Entertainment Subscriptions Are Growing
One category that is not suffering this year is entertainment subscriptions, according to new information released by NPD Group. According to their new study, overall per capita spending on entertainment subscriptions rose by nearly 7% this year. As of August 2009, 81 percent of U.S. households subscribed to a television service (satellite TV, basic/premium cable, [...]
I Heart Clear Channel’s Pirate Radio
Clear Channel has launched a new streaming channel on iHeartRadio for the new film Pirate Radio. The movie, about renegade rockers in the 1960s off the coast of England, is full of great music by The Beatles, The Stones, Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Smokey Robinson, David Bowie, Otis Redding, Cat Stevens and more. [...]
Spotify Launch Hits a Snag
Spotify, the European on-demand music streaming service that has taken Europe by storm, will apparently delay a US launch. For several weeks now there have been reports that the major labels were putting pressure on Spotify to abandon a free, ad-supported streaming model. The New York Times recently reported that major labels, already involved as [...]
AndoMedia’s Mea Culpa
Late last week AndoMedia released audience data for their universe of measured Internet radio stations, debuting some new definitions and two rankers, one defining domestic US listening. The changes were greeted with disapproval from the advertising community, particularly the radio ad community. Ando, it appears, had misjudged that segment of the buying community’s attachment to [...]
HD Radio on iPhone – There’s an App For That
Big news for HD Radio this week is that it’s available on iPhone. While the HD Radio app for iPhone is free, listening requires the purchase a Gigaware HD Radio receiver accessory, which costs $80 and is only available at Radio Shack. In this interview with wsj.com, iBiquity chief executive Bob Struble mentions that first [...]
Mobile Strategies Are Essential For Online Radio Stations
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to know that the web is moving to mobile devices. The US mobile web audience grew by 1/3 in a year, according to Nielsen Online. Pandora’s Joe Kennedy recently revealed that Pandora sees half a million listeners a day just on its iPhone and BlackBerry applications, tuning in for [...]
