Daily News & Analysis Feeds - 2017
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July 27, 2017 – Music Biz Congratulates Billboard’s Country Power Players; CMA’s Sarah Trahern Named ‘Exec of the Year’
Congratulations to our friend and close affiliate partner Sarah Trahern of the Country Music Association (CMA) for being named Billboard’s ‘Executive of the Year’ on their Country Power Players list. We would like to send a special shout-out to all of our members, friends, affiliates, and Music Biz convention speakers who made the list as… Read More
July 27, 2017 – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) To Speak on Current Music Policies at Entertainment & Technology Law Conference on September 19
Music Biz is excited to welcome Congressman Jerrold Nadler of the 10th District of New York to its Entertainment & Technology Law Conference — an exclusive, limited-attendance event set to to merge entertainment law issues with insight on new technology and media concerns that are at the forefront of the industry. Nadler, the second-most senior member on the House Judiciary Committee and… Read More
July 26, 2017 – New Playlist Data Available; 2016 Report Catalog Ready For Download
Music Biz is pleased to share some exciting developments in our partnership with AudienceNet/LOOP! Music Biz Consumer Insights — our online, interactive, graphic-based research summary portal — has been refreshed with data that takes an in-depth look at playlists. The portal will be refreshed twice a month with data about today’s music consumer. Login now to take a look… Read More
July 26, 2017 – Social Media Will Soon Hit 2.5B Users: eMarketer
Facebook and other social media company investors have another thing to cheer about: a potential 8% increase in the number of users that access a social network at least once a month this year. That’s according to research firm eMarketer, which is out with a new forecast that pegs the number of social media monthly active users (MAUs) at 2.46… Read More
July 24, 2017 – Music Pushes to Innovate Beyond Streaming, But Investors Play It Safe: Analysis
Out of the nearly $900 million in music-tech funding during the first half of 2017, 75 percent went to streaming services, and 82 percent was concentrated in the top four companies, according to an analysis of publicly available investment information for the first half of the year. Click here to read more.
July 24, 2017 – JAY-Z’s ‘4:44’ Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart, French Montana Debuts at No. 3
As expected, JAY-Z’s 4:44 notches a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200albums chart. The set, which bowed atop the tally a week ago, earned 87,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 20, according to Nielsen Music. That sum is down 67 percent compared to its bow of 262,000. Click here to read more in Billboard.
July 20, 2017 – Report: Hip-Hop/R&B Is The Dominant Genre In The U.S. For The First Time
For the first time since Nielsen started measuring music consumption in the United States, rock is no longer the top genre in terms of overall consumption. Instead, the combined genre of R&B and hip-hop has taken the crown, and while the two styles are fairly close to one another when it comes to percentages, the… Read More
July 20, 2017 – YouTube and Latin America are Taking Over the World
Unless you have been on Mars for the last couple of days you will have seen the news that Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’ has become the most streamed track in history with 4.6 billion streams. The figure includes a couple of versions of the track (ie the one include a certain Justin Bieber) but is an… Read More
July 20, 2017 – Finding the Surge In Summer Radio Listening
Americans are deep into the summer season now, and as the days slowly begin to draw shorter, there’s a lot to examine in Nielsen’s June portable people meter (PPM) insights. Historical precedent has shown that radio listening habits shift during the warmest months of the year—and every year one format grows more during the summer… Read More
July 19, 2017 – Exclusive Music Tourism Convention Discount for Music Biz Members
The first ever US Music Tourism Convention will be held September 21-22 in Franklin TN, 17 miles south of Nashville. All aspects of music tourism will be explored and discussed by the world’s leading destination marketers, festival organizers and music attraction executives. Speakers range from the VP of Goldenvoice Concerts, the Head of Marketing UK at Lastminute.com,… Read More
