Following indications of a subscriber growth plateau, new data is pointing to an outright decline in stateside Spotify Individual subscribers. Photo Credit: Kojo Kwarteng Following numerous signs of a paid-streaming plateau, new data is shedding […]
Full year-over-year data is revealing tepid US-based premium subscriber gains for Spotify, including near-zero growth and recent declines in the all-important Individual Premium subscriber category. . . You are trying to view our premium content. […]
Photo Credit: Colm Doyle Spotify is cracking down on the information developers can access through its API, joining other tech companies like Reddit and YouTube. The crackdown removes most recommendation features from third-party apps. Here’s […]
The Senate side of the U.S. Capitol. Photo Credit: Scrumshus Should generative AI developers be required to disclose the protected materials upon which their models trained? At least one member of Congress believes so, and […]
YouTube, having dethroned Spotify in the podcasting realm, now ranks second in overall U.S. TV usage, according to Nielsen. Photo Credit: Javier Miranda Spotify is plowing ahead with a video expansion, but as podcasting continues […]
Photo Credit: Tung Nguyen Understanding how your audience interacts with your music is essential to helping grow a fan base of dedicated superfans. Too Lost offers advanced analytics for drilling down data by source—so you […]
Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board has fined Twitch 2 million lira over a data breach that happened three years ago. Back in 2021, Twitch suffered a massive data leak that affected thousands of streamers and […]
Here’s a hard, inflation-adjusted look at the actual state of recording music sales in 2024 – and where things might go next. Somewhere, in the gigantic and conflicting jumble of music industry statistics being bandied […]
Core music industry funding increased in October 2024, but the YTD total is noticeably smaller than its 2023 counterpart. Photo Credit: Vladimir Solomianyi Core music industry funding achieved a significant year-over-year increase during October, though […]
Billboard has now removed CDs (and other physical sales) from its Market Watch breakdown, which compiles Luminate data. Photo Credit: Mick Haupt The latest installment of Billboard’s weekly “Market Watch” sales breakdown is here – […]
London, England. Photo Credit: Jakub Klucký British music industry exports cracked a record high in 2023 despite a relatively slow year-over-year growth rate of 7.6%, according to new data. That just-released data comes from the […]
An aerial shot of the highest-population city in California, which has the largest music industry GDP of any U.S. state. Photo Credit: Matthias Münning Just how much money does the music industry contribute to the […]
After flatlining into obscurity, is the CD format quietly staging a comeback. . . You are trying to view our premium content. Subscribe now for unlimited access to our reports, data, events, and more. […]
At least according to Billboard’s breakdown of Luminate data, U.S. CD sales have declined substantially to this point in 2024. Photo Credit: Mick Haupt It’s a tale of two CD sales stats: Luminate is pointing […]
Where is the best place to live if you’re looking for work? New data from the data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the best cities in the United States for job growth, […]
Live Nation is facing a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit over the massive Ticketmaster data breach from earlier this year. In April, a hacker group operating under the name ShinyHunters seemingly accessed Ticketmaster’s database. They […]
istockphoto composite Numerous people with ties to the United States government have claimed that the Pentagon has been running secret programs tasked with retrieving UFOs and aliens. None of them, of course, have ever been […]
At a time when we get pretty much everything done on the internet, browser extensions serve as a kind of toolbox that can make tasks easier. Whether it’s saving money while shopping, saving time while […]
Despite the retailer’s rising prevalence on social media, Dollar Tree is struggling to stay afloat amid inflation-related challenges and the recent seismic shift in consumer purchasing behavior. In a digital universe, Dollar Tree is the […]
For 2024’s opening half, the RIAA reported that U.S. on-demand streaming subscriptions had grown by a modest 2.7% year over year (YoY) as subscription revenue increased by 5.1%. Amid discussions about the slowdown, what does […]